PARIS — On a bleak February day in 1944, a French gendarme snatched a pair of dolls from two Jewish sisters about to be deported to Auschwitz, and flung them to the ground. Denise and Micheline Levy were 10 and nine when they were bundled out of their school in the eastern village of Gemeaux, near Dijon, never to return. Frederique Gilles, a teacher from Gemeaux whose grandmother preserved the dolls, presented them to the Holocaust museum in Paris last week. “Our family tried to find out what happened to the two girls, but they never came back. The Levy family were among the last Jews to be deported from France only months before the liberation of Paris.

Source: National Post September 19, 2016 17:03 UTC