11,000 Enfants (2), 2012

ARTIST | Eleanor Winters

SIZE | 23 x 29 cm, 9” x 11.5”

MEDIUM | Ink, gouache, acrylic paint

Arrête par la police du gouvernement de Vichy, complice de l’occupant nazi, plus de 11,000 enfants furent déportés de France de 1942 à 1944 et assassinés à Auschwitz parce que nés Juifs. Plus de 500 enfants vivaient dans le 4ème arrondissement...Ne les oublions, ne les oublions jamais.

 (English Translation)

Arrested by the police of the Vichy government, in complicity with the Nazi occupation, more than 11,000 children were deported from France between 1942 and 1944 and assassinated at Auschwitz because they were born Jews. More than 500 children lived in the 4^th district...We must never forget them, we must never forget them.