Black Thursday

In Paris in 1942 on a Thursday the Parisian police herded together some 13000 Jews for deportation to German territory In this story Paul Christian Rist is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble For a short while he is able to keep Jeanne Christine Pascal from joining them but after a long and strenuous day she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her