Sans oublier les enfants

This film tells the story of 4,115 Jewish children (aged from 2 to 16 years) whom the Germans had not asked for, who were arrested with their families by the French authorities on a day of July 1942 (at the time of the Vel d’Hiv’ round-up) interned in the camps at Pithiviers and Beaume la Rolande (Loiret) then sent to Auschwitz where they were all exterminated. Sixty days of wandering, suffering and humiliation which have been, for too long, suppressed from our collective memory and which, like the tragedy of the children of Izieu, rouses deep indignation.
This film tells with sober detail what life was like in these two camps, which were the waiting-room and sorting room of the death camps. A few witnesses who lived through the tragedy, survivors (4 out 4,115), social workers and doctors who helped them and inhabitants of Pithiviers remember...