This was to date the most heartbreaking thing I have ever read. It
read like a documentary and was so straightforward and concise.
On July 16, 1942 the French police in Paris rounded up as many Jews
as possible. For 7 days they were held at the Vélodrome d’Hiver and
eventually moved to Auschwitz. Of those taken 4.051 were children not
one of which made it back home. Only about 30 adults from what the Vichy
Government and the Germans called Operation Spring Wind made it back to
Paris.
Filled with supporting evidence and first hand testimony there is
much by way of information and pain in the pages of this book. It left
me wondering, even more than I already had been, how something like this
could happen. And fearing that if this question never gets answered it
could happen again.
(read Jan. 2012)
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