us-005578-irn1004890
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date: 1987 May 21
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identifier: irn1004890
note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 17:13 The clerk continues reading the deposition of witness Jacqueline Modier, née Rozenfarb; the witness lived in Paris until the Vel d'Hiv raid, when she moved with her family to Lyon; her father was deported to Auschwitz and died there; the witness was present at the UGIF raid, where she unknowingly entered a room and was greeted by a uniformed soldier; the witness recounts the proceedings of the raid; after 9 pm, the witness was released because she had falsified French papers and was younger than 15 17:19 The Attorney General presents two medical certificates pertaining to the next witness, Chana Grinspan, née Frenkiel, who is unable to appear in court due to ill health 17:20 The clerk reads Mrs. Grinspan's deposition; the witness was born in Poland as was her husband; they met in Paris and were married in 1941; her husband was arrested in 1942 in the Vel D'Hiv raid for being Jewish; she was not arrested because she had an infant child; her husband was sent from the Vel D'Hiv to Drancy and then to Auschwitz; Mrs. Grinspan subsequently traveled to Lyon with her son, which was still in the free zone; she was at the UGIF on the day of the raid in February 1943, with her son who at that time was 8 months old; she entered the UGIF unaware that the raid was underway, and was arrested in the doorway; she pretended not to understand German, the language in which she was addressed, and another woman who had been arrested was made to translate for her; more than 100 people had been stopped and were made to stay inside one room of the UGIF; she recalls one elderly man who arrived with his grandson and whom a German soldier beat; she was let go at about 5:00 pm because her baby was crying so loudly; she cannot recall whether she saw Barbie at the UGIF on that day 17:30 A civil party, Elie Nahmias, presents himself as a witness; Mr. Nahmias was a university student who, in 1944, was asked to serve for the Red Cross, along with many fellow students; in July 1944, he was aske…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- Witness depositions are read; a civil party testifies