HISTORY Archives reveal incomplete list of victims and information on how a sorting center operated
The documents also describe the conditions for avoiding deportation. Drawing. — margarita_kochneva/Pixabay
Nearly 550 Jews in transit in the center of Vénissieux (Rhône) had been deported to Auschwitz on August 26, 1942. A documented sorting in a hundred typewritten pages found by a grandson of a deportee, author of a book on the civilian intern camps of the Second World War. According to La Montagne, it’s on the occasion of a gathering of marcophiles in October 2021 at Néris-les-Bains (Allier) that the latter got hold of these documents.
Conditions to avoid deportation
These precious archives indicate in particular the composition of the administrative teams, some of the victims, a summary efficiency of the roundup and a report on the operation of the Vénissieux sorting centre.
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They also deliver the eleven conditions which allowed foreign Jews to avoid the roundup. port, to to know: to be old over 60, be “untransportable”, or be an unaccompanied child for example. This last condition would have saved 108 children, the parents having deliberately signed acts of delegation of paternity.
The documents have been entrusted by their owner to the departmental archives of the Rhône.