Rafle de la Rue Sainte-Catherine

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Memorial plaque on Rue Sainte-Catherine

The Rafle de la rue Sainte-Catherine was a raid on 9. February 1943 in Lyon , arrested in the 84 Jews in the camp at Drancy internment and extermination camps in German-occupied Poland deported were. The raid was carried out at the behest of Klaus Barbie , then head of the Gestapo in Lyon, on the premises of the Union générale des israélites de France .

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The Rue Sainte-Catherine in Lyon is located in the historical center of the city, not far from the Place des Terreaux with the town hall . At number 12 there was an office of the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF, "General Association of the Israelites of France"). This organization was established in November 1941 on the model of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . It found accommodation for destitute Jewish arrivals and issued forged papers to those who wanted to flee, but at the same time saw itself forced to a certain extent to collaborate with the Vichy regime and the German occupiers , comparable to the Jewish councils in the other areas occupied by the German Reich .

On February 9, 1943, the Gestapo, headed by Klaus Barbie, arrested all employees of the UGIF as well as everyone who appeared there. By the evening, 86 people had been arrested, but two of them escaped using false papers. The rest were deported to extermination camps. Only three of them survived the end of the war; one of the survivors, Malvine Lanzet, appeared as plaintiff in the trial of Barbie.

Barbie trial and commemoration

In June 1983, Serge Klarsfeld , after examining the UGIF archives at the YIVO Research Institute in New York , was able to compile the list of the 84 deportees on Rue Sainte-Catherine, after examining the list of arrivals in the Drancy camp on February 12, 1943. The discovery of the arrest warrant issued by Klaus Barbie led to the raid becoming an indictment in the 1987 trial of Barbie .

In 2011, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the scene of the event in the presence of the Mayor of Lyon, Gérard Collomb and the former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter . Badinter's father was among the victims of the 1943 raid; he was killed in the Sobibor extermination camp .

Plaque

The memorial plaque on house no.12 on Rue Sainte Catherine in Lyon, which cites the Association des Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France (Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France ) as its source , has the following inscription (with German translation) :

"A la mémoire des Juifs raflés par la gestapo, le 9 février 1943, dans les locaux de la Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France et du Comité d'assistance aux Réfugiés,
12 rue Sainte Catherine Lyon 1 er  : 86 personnes furent arrétées, 80 furent déportées dont 3 survécurent. " [...]

"In memory of the Jews who were rounded up by the Gestapo on February 9, 1943 in the premises of the Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France and the Aid Committee for Refugees, Rue Sainte Catherine 12, Lyon 1 : 86 people were arrested, 80 were deported , of which 3 survived. " [...]

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address on the 68th anniversary (French)
  2. ^ Lyons: une plaque pour les victimes de la rafle du 9 février. In: 20minutes.fr . February 14, 2011, accessed February 16, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ On Google Street View

literature

  • Serge Klarsfeld: La rafle de la rue Sainte-Catherine à Lyon le 9 février 1943.
  • Georges Garel: Le sauvetage des enfants juifs par l'OSE . Editions Le Manuscrit, 2012.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 46 ′ 5.4 "  N , 4 ° 50 ′ 0.6"  E