Unveiling Ceremony of the Commemorative Plaque for Jewish Children Deported from Vernier College
Thursday, June 9, 2011, at 3:30 PM at Vernier College
33 Vernier Street – Nice
To inscribe in the memory of educational institutions the names of deported students.
Out of the 11,000 children who were deported from France, innocent victims of the Vichy government, an accomplice to Nazi barbarism, more than 400 of them lived in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The plaque inaugurated today is dedicated to the memory of the students from Vernier College, deported between 1943 and 1944, murdered in extermination camps because they were born Jewish.
Let us recall that since 2003, the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes has been organizing Memory Trips.
Since the beginning, no fewer than 11,000 ambassadors of peace (including 10,200 middle school students) have been made aware by the Department.
