Authorities in the French capital Paris have renamed a city square to commemorate 44 Jewish children who were murdered by the Gestapo in 1944. The children were first hidden in a shelter in the Département Ain, but the Nazis found them on 6 April 1944 and sent them to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. At a ceremony commemorating the square’s new name, Gérard Leban from president Chirac's UMP party, who was himself arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, remembered “the little faces that cried on the death trains, whose destiny was brutally interrupted because of the madness of men.” Paris City Council also dedicated three other public sites in honor of French resistance fighters against the Nazis.