Interestingly, a black, sealed chest belonging to Leon Blum was eventually discovered in Racibórz, although the final correspondence, dated December 22, 1945, found in the "Confidential" file, makes no mention of where. From June 1942 to July 1944, approximately 65,000 Jews were deported to extermination camps in eastern Europe, on 64 transports. JO1987p11518-11522. Living Memory: Representations of Drancy | SpringerLink In 1936, Léon Blum became France first Jewish Prime Minister. . Il va s'adjoindre les services d'André. Robert Emmanuel Brunschwig (1888 - 1944) - Genealogy She graduated from Sharpsville High School in . Blum (Eliane) née le 4 février 1915 à Paris (03) décédée le 18 février 1943 à Auschwitz (Pologne) et non le 13 février 1943 à Drancy (Seine). René Blum — Wikipédia As a Capuchin Franciscan friar he helped smuggle approximately 4,000 Jews into safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France.On 1 December 1966, he was honored with the Medal of the Righteous among the Nations for his courage and self-sacrifice. Seven hundred Romanian Jews, interned at Drancy, are deported to Auschwitz. The digging work was discovered in November 1943 and many prisoners were executed, including the camp's resistance leader, Robert Blum. It's doctored. Abraham Gamzu, chairman of the Jewish Council at Kaluszyn, Poland, is executed after refusing to deliver Jews for deportation The 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died near her home in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, while the city was under a devastating Russian attack. The Family History of the Calzaretta, Krieger, Michaels and Rafael ... FRENCH CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST. A memorial - Serge Klarsfeld The French affiliate of the World Jewish Congress is the Conseil . Pendant trois ans, sous les directions successives de Theodor Dannecker, Heinz Röthke et Alois Brünner, il fonctionne comme le principal lieu de départ vers les camps d'extermination nazis : 67 des 79 convois de déportés Juifs partiront de Drancy.