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Chronology 2004 Newletter Member of the Board of directors and of the Bureau of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah in Paris and Chairman of the Commission of "Memory Links", Serge Klarsfeld assumes a task, which requires a very important pro bono work as he does as President of "The Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France". ln 1992, Serge Klarsfeld took the initiative of campaigning for the rehabilitation of the "Judenrampe"; the railway platform where all deported Jews arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau between June 1942 and May 1944. In 2004 he convinced the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah to finance the reconstruction of that platform which will be inaugurated on January 27, 2005 by the French President, Jacques Chirac. Serge Klarsfeld has often gone to, Auschwitz to solve all the problems in this matter. Serge and Arno support actively the cause of Israel and the cause of the United States (see enclosed articles) in the most important newspapers in France such as "Le Monde" and "Le Figaro" in spite of the anti-Israel and anti-American campaigns so active nowadays in France. Arno Klarsfeld, 38, member of the Paris, New York and Califomia Bars who in 2003 became an Israeli citizen was incorporated to the Israeli Army on November 16 2003 and since that date is active as a member of the Border Police. He plans in 2005 to lecture in many universities in the United States in order to explain the Israeli point of view. Between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003, 47 convoys were honored and between July 1 2003 and June 30,2004, 19 convoys were honored. Many commemorative plaques were placed in schools in France with the names of Jewish pupils deported. Thisresearchwas made possible only thanks to the reference work of Serge Klarsfeld "French Children of the Holocaust". Serge Klarsfeld together with the Sons and Daughters has placed several commemorative plaques in French Railway stations. Beate Klarsfeld has undertaken research in order to identify the 700 German and Austrian Jewish children who were deported from France and to prepare an exhibition in Germany on the subject : "German Jewish Children Deported from France". She is in the process of preparing a book on that subject. The Klarsfelds obtained a final victory in the case against Maurice Papon. The Supreme court (Cour de Cassation) decided on June 10, 2004 that the 1998 sentence of 10 years of imprisonment is definitely confirmed. Serge Klarsfeld has organized, from A to Z, the monumental exhibition on French Jewish Children Deported from France, which is shown in the most important French Railway stations, for two or three weeks at a time, as of march 27th 2002 (date of the first deportation of Jews from France), sixty years ago. From July 2003 to June 20, 2004 the exhibition was shown and seen in different cities and seen by hundred of thousand visitors.
ln September the exhibition was shown in the headquarters of the French Railways and in January 2005 will be shown in the French National Assembly in Paris.
Publications In preparation a volume IX on Hungarian Jews in the
concentration camp of Mauthausen.
Our exhibition "French children of the Holocaust" in Metz.
The Papon case is definitely closed and the verdict
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