11,000 Enfants Déportés de France, 2018

ARTIST | Eleanor Winters

SIZE | 30.5 x 47 cm, 12” x 18.5”

MEDIUM | Gouache, oil pastels, gold paint

Arrêtés 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 qu'ils étaient nés Juifs. Plus de 500 de ces enfants vivaient dans le 4ème arrondissement, parmi eux les élèves de cette école. 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 because they were born Jews. More than 500 of these children lived in the 4th district, among whom were the students of this school. We must never forget them.