Memorial of the Jewish deportation Avignon

In April 2010, a plaque commemorating the 422 Jews deported from the Vaucluse to the Nazi death camps between 1942 and 1944 was inaugurated in the Jardin des Doms.
This included 54 children. The youngest Maurice Houlli was barely 29 days old when he died
was deported on May 20, 1944 with his sister Monique (23 months), his young parents (22 and 24 years old) and his grandmother.
The memorial plaque was an initiative of AMEJD, an Association in Memory of Jewish Children.

Under the inscription: "Jews, deported from the Vaucluse to the Nazi extermination camps between 1942 and 1944" there is a short introductory text:

" In 1942, about a hundred foreign Jews were extradited to the Nazis by the Vichy government before the arrival of the occupying forces. After the occupation, more than 300 people were deported by the German police and their associates from January 1943 to July 1944.
Among them were 54 children. A number of deportees survived."

Below is an alphabetical list of all victims, followed by a concluding text:

"Let us not forget the many Jewish internees of the Vaucluse who had the chance to survive in the French camps, especially Drancy, Gurs, Les Milles, as well as those who escaped from the trains that led them to deportation."

Next to this memorial plaque hangs a small plaque with the text:
"The French Republic
In honor of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic persecution
and crimes against humanity committed under
the authority of the Government of the French State (1940-1944).
Never forget"

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck