Children Targeted Directly – Izieu roundup (April 6, 1944) In the French village of Izieu, 44 Jewish children had been hidden in a rural home intended as a refuge. Acting on orders from Klaus Barbie in Lyon, German forces arrested the children and their caretakers. They were deported via Drancy to Auschwitz; none of the children survived. The case became central evidence in Barbie’s 1987 war crimes trial, symbolizing the targeted destruction of even the youngest refugees who had already fled ear