Georgy, 7, budding reporter died in Auschwitz

It is an exhibition that is deeply moving. Letters, photos, drawings of a child who will be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 13, 1944 and will die in a gas chamber. His name was Georges Halpern dit Georgy, born in Vienna on October 30, 1935, of the Jewish faith. The exhibition can be seen at the Maison d’Izieu in Ain, at the Memorial to the Exterminated Jewish Children. In this house were welcomed, from May 1943 to April 1944, more than a hundred children rescued from anti-Semitic persecution. On April 6, 1944, the 44 children present and seven educators were rounded up and deported on the orders of Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon; only an adult survived. We owe Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the famous Nazi hunters who allowed the arrest of Klaus Barbie in Bolivia in 1983, the presentation of these invaluable documents.