A wagon used for the deportation of Jews during the Second World War in front of the Camp des Milles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. - GERARD JULIEN / AFP

75 years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps, Lyon will honor the memory of Jewish children kidnapped in 1944 at the Antiquaille hospital (5th arrondissement). On the initiative of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) and in the presence of the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, a plaque will be unveiled this Thursday at 3 p.m. on the Esplanade Saint Pothin (5th arrondissement) .

It is a little-known episode in the history of the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. It is no less terrifying. It was thanks to the historian Sylvie Altar and her thesis Being Jewish in Lyon from the pre-war to liberation that these events were brought to light. From February 1944, the Jewish children rounded up by the Gestapo, are transferred to the Antiquaille hospital transformed into a prison for the sick members of the Resistance and treated under surveillance. 75 children, aged 4 months to 14 years, were kidnapped before being, for 48 of them, deported. Only one will come back alive from hell camps. At the liberation of Lyons, there remained a child at Antiquaille.

During the ceremony, 75 CM2 students from the Albert Camus school will drop off a rose for each kidnapped child, whose names will be called by high school students from Saint-Just.

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