us-005578-irn1004899
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date: 1987 June 01
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scope and content: 15:00 Prosecutor Libman asks the witness, Mrs. Paulette Roche, to authenticate photos of children from Izieu, which were published in a book written by Prosecutor Klarsfeld 15:01 President Cerdini calls the next witness, Dr. Adolphe Waysenson, to the stand; the witness presents himself to the court and is sworn in 15:02 The witness testifies; he stayed with his two younger siblings in the children's home at Izieu from the end of summer of 1943 through the winter of 1944, while his parents hid; when his parents found secure shelter in the winter of 1944, they returned to Izieu to pick him up, not long before the Izieu raid; the witness was friends with many of the children who were taken in the raid 15:04 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks the witness about the fate of his family after being reunited with their parents; they found refuge in a village of the Gard region of southern France, but his father was arrested there on April 9, 1944; he never returned from his deportation; the rest of the family somehow remained unfound until the end of the war 15:06 President Cerdini calls the next witness, Mr. Paul Niedermann, to the stand; the witness presents himself to the court and is sworn in 15:08 The witness is a German Jew who was in 1940 interned at the Gurs camp in the French Pyrenees, and then at the Rives Altes camp; he describes his escape from the camp with the help of female Resistance members posing as social workers at the camp; Mrs. Zlatin, later the director of the children's home at Izieu, helped him to escape; he was taken to a children's home in Palavas les Flots, near Montpelier, with his childhood friend; they lived there and worked for the Zlatin family's agricultural business, until the Germans arrived in southern France, at which point the witness and his friend moved quickly through several children's homes in the O.S.E. (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) network; in 1943, Mrs. Zlatin contacted them and asked them to come to her children's home in Izieu, where…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 14 -- Witnesses testify; Written depositions are read