They were forty-four. Forty-four Jewish children, all gathered in the sadly famous house of Izieu (Ain), “a summer camp that was not really one”. All were arrested during a roundup ordered by Klaus Barbie on April 6, 1944. Samuel Pintel could have been the 45th, but “fate” decided otherwise.
750 middle school students from Chartres gathered to listen to the testimony of Samuel Pintel, son of deportees and hidden child
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