The official death dates were the days the deportation convoys left France.” “I can’t believe it.” “A letter from the National Office for Veterans and Victims of War to the trial court prosecutor even requested that the place of death be specified as Auschwitz. The court decided otherwise. But that’s not all. They also refused to say that the Jews had been deported because of race. They said it was for political reasons. It was only in 1996, after a lot of lobbying, that official recognition of ‘death by deportation’ was granted and the death certificates were corrected.”
