44 Jewish children were rounded up on April 6, 1944. The house of Izieu has remained in its original state, except for a classroom reconstructed in the 1990s.

On the walls, photos of smiling groups, boys in undershirts washing in the fountain, children peeling vegetables or a pack looking for news, around a postman. They recall the day before, this year spent far from the tumults of the world, before the deportation of the children and their educators. Until...