The Paris City Council renamed a city square to commemorate 44 Jewish children murdered by the Gestapo in 1944. The children were hidden in the Izieu shelter in Ain, France, but the Nazis found them on April 6, 1944, and sent them to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
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