Henri Lévy (rabbi)

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Henri Lévy (1914)

Henri Lévy (born June 7, 1883 in Balbronn , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine ; died 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a French rabbi .

Life

Lévy attended a rabbinical seminary in France and became a rabbi in Muaskar in the French colony of Algeria in 1910 . After the outbreak of the First World War he was drafted and used with the Armée française d'Orient in the Battle of Gallipoli and on the Salonika Front. He was awarded the Croix de guerre and accepted into the Legion of Honor . After the war he returned to Algeria. In 1921 he took over the rabbinical position in Thionville in Lorraine .

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was recruited again as a pastor for the army in Forbach . After the German de facto annexation of Lorraine in 1940, he moved to Saumur , which was in the zone of France occupied by the Wehrmacht , and worked there again as a rabbi. At the time of the Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver on 16./17. In July 1942 Lévy was also arrested and abducted. On July 20, 1942, he was deported from Angers to the Auschwitz concentration camp in convoy number 8 . Lévy was a victim of the Holocaust there.

Thionville Synagogue

In 2009, the Thionville Commune named the square in front of the synagogue , which was destroyed during the German occupation, after him.

literature

  • Paul Lévy: Hommes de Dieu dans la tourmente, l'histoire des rabbins déportés . Paris: Safed Éd. 2006 ISBN 2-914585-49-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d La juste place d'Henri Lévy , La Semaine, April 30, 2009
  2. ^ Serge Klarsfeld : Vichy - Auschwitz. The “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” in France , translated from the French by Ahlrich Meyer , Nördlingen 1989, p. 148
personal data
SURNAME Lévy, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Balbronn , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp