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The Children Of Izieu

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The Holocaust War Crimes and War Criminals

On April 6, 1945, one month before the end of WW II, the Gestapo from Leon, under Klaus Barbie, sent two vans to the French village of Izieu. The mission was to kill the hidden children of an orphanage known as La Maison d'Izieu. In a senseless raid, 44 Jewish children aged 4 to 17 years, and 5 adult caretakers were thrown into a van and sent to Auschwitz and immediately gassed. The people who were interviewed in this film are the last living eyewitnesses to the raid, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who hunted and brought Barbie to justice, and two hidden children who lived to bear witness. (HS). B/W & Color. (28 minutes.)

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