List of stumbling blocks in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region

The list of stumbling blocks in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region contains the stumbling blocks in the French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes . They remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide during the German occupation of France in World War II . The stumbling blocks were laid by Gunter Demnig . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen residence, but in this region they are in front of the school that the four boys attended. These were 4 of Izieu's 44 children who were captured by the Gestapo under the direction of Klaus Barbie in April 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. They were all murdered by the Nazi regime, as were six of their tutors.

The first relocations in this region took place in the municipality of Belley on May 29, 2017. The stumbling blocks are mostly called pavés de mémoire in the French-speaking area , the literal translation would be "pierres sur lesquelles on trébuche".

Children of Izieu

The Izieu orphanage

From June 1943, four young people from the colony attended secondary school in Belley. The headmaster Gaston Lavoille welcomed them and took care of their integration into the class. At the same time, a school class was established in Izieu, led from October 18, 1943 by the then 21-year-old Gabrielle Perrier, later married Tardy.

List of installed stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

image	inscription	Location	Life
	HERE LEARNED MAX MARCEL BALSAM BORN 1931 ARRESTED 04/06/1944 PRISONER HELD IN MONTLUC, DRANCY deported in 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Rue du Promenoir (back entrance of the Lycée du Bugey)	Max-Marcel Balsam was born on May 15, 1931 in Paris . His parents were Salomon Balsam (born December 7, 1893 in Warsaw) and Selma, nee Halberg. His paternal grandparents were Moric Balsam and Machla, née Aronfeld. His maternal grandmother was Tauba Halberg (born in Butschatsch in 1873 ). He had three siblings: Hélène (born January 16, 1921), Berthe (born 1925) and Jean-Paul (born June 6, 1933). His father was arrested because of his Jewish origin, deported on Transport 1 to Auschwitz-Birkenau on March 27, 1942 , and murdered there on April 24, 1942. Selma and Berthe Balsam went to Villeurbanne , where they lived on Rue Henri Rolland. Grandmother Tauba and the three other children, including Max-Marcel, got into a raid in February 1943, were arrested and taken to the Drancy assembly camp . The children were released. The grandmother was deported to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943 on Transport 49. The children came to a children's home on Rue Vauquelin, which was run by the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF). They wanted to see their mother in Villeurbanne. However, the two boys were placed in the care of the couple Sabine and Miron Zlatin, who ran a children's home in Izieu . Jean-Paul was accommodated there, Max-Marcel was sent to a Catholic school in Belley, where he also lived. He spent the Easter holidays in Izieu as the boarding school was closed during the holidays. Max-Marcel Balsam was arrested together with his brother Jean-Paul Balsam and 42 other children and young people on April 6, 1944 in Izieu, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. Three days later, Hélène and Berthe Balsam arrived in Izieu to visit the brothers. They only found out about the arrests on the spot.
	HERE GET TO KNOW MAJER-MARCEL BULKA BORN IN 1929 POLAND ARRIVED 6.4.1944 CAUGHT IN MONTLUC, DRANCY DEPORTED 1944 MURDERED AUSCHWITZ	Rue du Promenoir (back entrance of the Lycée du Bugey)	Majer-Marcel Bulka , also Marcel-Majer Bulka, was born on September 29, 1930 in Kalisz , Poland . His parents were Mosiek-Cham Bulka, called Moshe, and Raizel, née Moskowitz, also Roizel (born on August 4, 1904 in Kalisz). His maternal grandparents were Benjamin and Tziporah, née Neiman. He had a younger brother, Albert, born on June 28, 1939 in Ougrée , Belgium, named Coco . It is not known when the family moved from Poland to Belgium. After the invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg and the conquest of France by the Nazi regime, the whole family was arrested and interned in the Camp de Rivesaltes in southern France. The sons were able to leave the camp and found shelter in an OSE project in Palavas-les-Flots , led by the married couple Sabine and Miron Zlatin. The mother of the two children was transferred to the Drancy assembly camp and on September 11, 1942, deported on Transport 31 to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where she was murdered. Also in 1942, the maternal grandparents who had remained in Poland were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp and gassed there. The children's father was interned in Camp de Gurs on February 26, 1943 and transferred from there to Drancy on March 2, 1943. Two days later he was deported to Majdanek on Transport 50 and also murdered. Stumbling block in Liège At an unknown time, the two brothers moved to the Maison d'Izieu , also run by the Zlatins. The new accommodation was considered safer and was close to the Swiss border. Majer-Marcel Bulka was admitted to secondary school in Belley, where he stayed at the boarding school. The boarding school was closed during the holidays, so he also spent this time in the children's home in Izieu. During the Easter break, on the morning of April 6, 1944, Majer-Marcel Bulka was arrested there, together with his brother Albert Bulka and 42 other children, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a photograph of the two brothers with their friend Alec Bergman, who survived the Shoah. Stolpersteine were laid for all three children in Liège , for Alec Bergman at 229 rue Grétry, for Albert and Majer-Marcel Bulka at 24 rue des Champs.
	MAURICE GERENSTEIN LEARNED HERE BORN IN 1931 ARRESTED 6.4.1944 CAUGHT IN MONTLUC, DRANCY DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Rue du Promenoir (back entrance of the Lycée du Bugey)	Maurice Gerenstein was born on January 3, 1931 in Paris . His parents were the musician Chapse Alexandre Gerenstein (born on August 23, 1901 in Odessa ) and Chendlia, born Entine, also Chendla (born on January 23, 1903 also in Odessa). He had a younger sister, Liliane (born January 13, 1933) in Nice . The family lived in Évian-les-Bains . Maurice Gerenstein was musical, played the piano and composed as a child. His parents were arrested and on November 20, 1943, deported on Transport 62 from the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp . The mother was murdered that same year. For the time being, the two children could be brought to safety. From November 1943 on they lived in the care of the couple Sabine and Miron Zlatin , who ran a children's home in Izieu . Liliane was put up there, Maurice went to a Catholic school in Belley, where he also stayed at the boarding school. Since the boarding school was closed during the holidays, he spent this time in Izieu. Maurice Gerenstein, along with his sister Liliane Gerenstein and 42 other children, were arrested on April 6, 1944 in Izieu, deported to Auschwitz and murdered. His father, who played the trumpet in the Auschwitz Orchestra, was able to survive and emigrated to the USA after the liberation. There he called himself Alexander Gerens and worked as a composer and conductor in Hollywood. In 1974 and 1977 he reported the murders of his wife and children to Yad Vashem . He died in Los Angeles in January 1979.
	HERE LEARNED HENRI CHAIM GOLDBERG BORN 1930 ARRESTED 04/06/1944 PRISONER HELD IN MONTLUC, DRANCY deported in 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Rue du Promenoir (back entrance of the Lycée du Bugey)	Henri-Chaïm Goldberg was born on December 30, 1930 in Paris . His parents were Amyl and Gita Goldberg. He had a younger brother, Joseph, born March 1, 1932 in Paris. The two children came to the Maison d'Izieu in 1943 , managed by the married couple Sabine and Miron Zlatin. Joseph was put up there, Henri-Chaïm went to secondary school in Belley, which also had a boarding school. The director there praised "the little Parisian", his enthusiasm, also for country life, his spontaneity and helpfulness. He spent the holidays with his brother in Izieu, who drew country life and film scenes and reported on his progress in letters to his mother. On April 6, 1944, the Gestapo marched into Izieu and arrested 44 children, including the Goldberg brothers. Henri-Chaim Goldberg and his brother were deported to Auschwitz on Transport 71 and murdered in a gas chamber on April 18, 1944. The fate of the parents is not known.

Stolpersteine ​​project in Belley

Stumbling blocks in Belley

The relocation in Belley was initiated by the Association pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (ASM) based in Brussels. The "Mémoires Tissées" project was carried out at the Lycée du Bugey , led by the teachers Isabelle Journo and Mélanie Martinod. The aim of the project was to develop students' sensitivity and awareness of history. The mayor Pierre Berthet, the German consul general Klaus HD Ranner, the director of the Mémorial d'Izieu, Dominique Vidaud, as well as representatives of the AMS and the director of the Lycée du Bugey, Gilles Flament, were present at the relocation.

Laying date

The stumbling blocks in this region were laid on May 29, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ borough Belley: Des paves de mémoire en hommage à 4 enfants d'Izieu , accessed on January 8, 2020
2. ↑ Maison d'Izieu : The School , accessed January 8, 2020
3. ↑ ledauphine.com: Gabrielle Perrier ou le regret de ne pas avoir été là (Gabrielle Perrier, or the regret for not having been there) (April 6, 2014), accessed July 23, 2018
4. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : Salomon Balsam , based on Memorial to the Jews deported from France 1942-1944, accessed July 22, 2018
5. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Salomon Balsam , based on the Auschwitz Book of the Dead, accessed on July 22, 2018
6. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Tauba Halberg , based on Memorial to the Jews deported from France 1942-1944, accessed July 22, 2018
7. ↑ Anonymes, Justes et Persécutés durant la période Nazie dans les communes de France (AJPN): Max Marcel Balsam , accessed on July 21, 2018 (with a photograph by the brothers Max-Marcel and Jean-Paul)
8. ↑ The year of birth stated on the stone is incorrect.
9. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Moshe Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by Moshe Kuper, accessed on July 22, 2018
10. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Moshe Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by his niece Barbara Kuper Marlow.
11. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Raizel Bulka , memorial sheet submitted by her niece Barbara Kuper Marlow, accessed July 22, 2018
12. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Benjamin Moskowitz , memorial sheet submitted by his granddaughter Barbara Kuper Marlow, accessed on July 22, 2018
13. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Tziporah Moskowitz , memorial sheet submitted by her granddaughter Barbara Kuper Marlow, accessed on July 22, 2018
14. ↑ Mémoire de la Déportation dans l'Ain (1939-1945): Albert BULKA , accessed on January 12, 2020
15. ^ Antoine Spire: Ces enfants qui nous manquent: Izieu, 6 avril 1944, Paris 1990, pp. 89-90
16. ↑ Find a Grave : Majer "Marcel" Bulka , with a photograph of the two brothers Majer and Albert, accessed on July 22, 2018
17. ↑ Traces of War : Stumbling Stones Rue des Champs 24 , accessed July 22, 2018
18. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Albert Bulka , based on the list of persecuted people, Service Européen de Recherches (SER - European Search Service) card catalog from France for searching for relatives, 1940-1946, by H. Moszkowicz, accessed on 22 July 2018
19. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Albert Bulka , based on Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978, accessed on July 22, 2018
20. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Albert Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by Kokhava Mikhnovski, accessed July 22, 2018
21. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Marcel Bulka , based on Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978, accessed on July 22, 2018
22. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Majer Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by Kokhava Mikhnovski, accessed July 22, 2018
23. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Meir Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by Moshe Kuper, accessed on July 22, 2018
24. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Meyer Bulka , based on a memorial sheet submitted by his cousin Barbara Kuper Marlow, accessed on July 22, 2018
25. ↑ Anonymous, Justes et Persécutés durant la période Nazie dans les communes de France (AJPN): Albert Bulka , accessed on January 12, 2020
26. ↑ The Holocaust History Project: FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST , accessed January 13, 2020
27. ^ The History Place: Holocaust Timeline , accessed July 22, 2018
28. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Chendlia Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by her husband Chapse Gerenstein, accessed July 23, 2018
29. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Liliane Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by her father Chapse Gerenstein, accessed on July 23, 2018
30. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Lilian Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by Kokhava Mikhnovski, accessed on July 23, 2018
31. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Liliane Gerenstein based on the list of deportees in Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978, accessed on July 23, 2018
32. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Lilian Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by Kokhava Mikhnovski, accessed on July 23, 2018
33. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Maurice Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by his father Chapse Gerenstein, accessed on July 23, 2018
34. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Maurice Gerenstein based on a memorial sheet submitted by Kokhava Mikhnovski, accessed on July 23, 2018
35. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Maurice Gerenstein based on the list of deportees in Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978.
36. ↑ Find a Grave : Maurice Gerenstein , with a photograph of the Gerenstein siblings, accessed on July 23, 2018
37. ↑ IMDb : Alexander Gerens Biography , accessed on July 23, 2018
38. ^ Yad Vashem - Children's Homes in France During the Holocaust: Maison D'Izieu - The Gerenstein Family , accessed January 15, 2020
39. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : Henri Goldberg based on the list of deportees in Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978, accessed on August 8, 2018
40. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : Joseph Goldberg based on the list of deportees in Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France by Béate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978, accessed on August 8, 2018
41. ^ Archives d'un procès: Klaus Barbie , with a foreword by Bernard-Henri Lévy , Le Livre de Poche
42. ↑ Les enfants dans la Shoah: Les dessins des enfants d'Izieu , accessed on August 8, 2018
43. ↑ The Holocaust History Project: FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST , with a photo by Henri and Joseph Goldberg accessed on January 15, 2020
44. ↑ Déportation de Lyon: Enfants Goldberg , accessed on January 15, 2020

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