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This post honours the memory of a victim of the Holocaust.
7 December 1929 | Gedale (Gdala) Hejblum was born in Łuków, Poland
A Jewish boy who grew up in a small town near Lublin. Like thousands of others, he sought a safer life and emigrated to France.
On 5 August 1942, at the age of 12, he was deported from Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp on Convoy 16.
Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, he was sent directly from the ramp to the gas chamber after the selection.
No registration number. No prisoner photograph. No grave.
Only a name and a date that must never be forgotten.
We remember Gedale Hejblum today, and every day, because every child murdered in the Holocaust had a name, a family, and a future that was stolen.
They took his life at twelve. We give him back his name forever.
Sources
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum – Convoy 16 records, 5 August 1942
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris – Beaune-la-Rolande deportation lists
Klarsfeld, Serge – Memorial to the Jews Deported from France 1942–1944