THE PAINFUL MURDER OF HANS AMENT IN GAS CHAMBER WWII.
15 February 1934 | Hans Ament was born in Vienna - one of the Jewish children from the orphanage in Izieu arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944.
On 30 May 1944 he was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
Hans was a son of Max and Ernestina. He had an elder brother Alfred (b. 1928). They lived in Vienna. In 1939 the family moved to Belgium, planning to immigrate to the US. In March 1940, a US visa was issued to Hans in Antwerp, but in May 1940, before Hans was able to leave, the Germans invaded Belgium and the Aments fled to France.
Max was deported from Drancy in March 1943, and murdered at either Sobibor or Majdanek. That same month, Ernestina was admitted to a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, several dozen kilometers from the children's home in Izieu where her little boy, Hans had been brought. Alfred was smuggled into Switzerland by the Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants (Children’s Aid Society).
In a letter that Hans sent from Izieu to his mother, the ten-year-old wrote: "100,000,000 big kisses from your son who is always thinking of you."
On 6 April 1944 the Gestapo under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie raided the Jewish orphanage in Izieu. 44 children - including Hans - and their 7 educators were taken to Drancy & later deported to Auschwitz. Only one person survived.
Klaus Barbie was an SS and Gestapo functionary. He was known as the "Butcher of Lyon". He was responsible for the execution or murder of over 4,000 individuals and for the deportation of 7,500 Jews, the majority of whom perished in Auschwitz.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who brought Klaus Barbie to justice in 1983, later wrote: "Forty-four children deported - no mere statistic, but rather forty-four tragedies which continue to cause us pain ..."
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