1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

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Commemorative plaque for the Vénissieux round-up following an act of vandalism

Publication date 28/08/2003 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

Last July, the commemorative plaque of the August 26, 1942 round-up of Vénissieux, organized by the Vichy government, was broken. Today, on this anniversary, a new commemorative plaque, funded by the Union of Jewish Students of France, was inaugurated. Yonathan Arfi, President of the Union of Jewish Students of France, says that the response to this act of vandalism was more than necessary and that a work of memory must continue especially among the younger generations.

Valérie Perthuis Portheret’s book highlights the memory of 108 children saved from the Vénissieux round-up

Publication date 04/04/2012 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

On August 26, 1942, the Vichy regime ordered all foreign Jews in the region to be sent to Lyon for deportation. Unlike the Vel d'Hiv round-up where all Jews were deported, 108 children were saved in Lyon thanks to the "Christian Friendship" association founded by Abbot Glasberg. Valérie Perthuis Portheret, a historian, reconstructed the story of 90 of these children in a book. Interview with Lili Garel, who helped rescue these children.

The French police organized the August 26, 1942 round-up in Lyon

Publication date 20/08/1992 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

On August 26, 1942, an order was issued by the Vichy regime to gather all foreign Jews in Lyon and send them to Germany. As recalled by René Nodot, resistance fighter and vice-president of the Rhône Licra on this date there were no Germans in Lyon, this round-up is therefore solely the fault of the Vichy government and the French police.

Testimony of René Nodot, on the roundup of foreign Jews in August 42 in Lyon

Publication date 20/08/1992 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

Testimony of René NODOT, Vice-President of the LICRA Rhône, on the course of the round-up of 26 August 1942, ordered by the Vichy regime. The objective was to gather all the foreign Jews of the region in Lyon and then send them to deportation camps.

108 children escaped the August 26, 1942 round-up of Vénissieux

Publication date 20/08/1992 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

On August 26, 1942, the Vichy regime ordered all foreign Jews in the region to be sent to Lyon for deportation. Contrary to the Vel d'Hiv round-up where all Jews were deported, 108 children were saved in Lyon thanks to the Christian friendship association, as René Nodot, resistance fighter and vice-president of the Rhône Licra, recalls.

Abbot Glasberg, founder of the Christian Friendship, receives the Righteous Medal

Publication date 14/01/2004 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

The Medal of the Just Among the Nations was awarded on Monday in Jerusalem to Father Alexandre GLASBERG, a late French priest of Jewish origin, and his brother VILA, for their work in favour of Jewish refugees in France during the Second World War. A Catholic priest of Jewish origin, born in Ukraine, Alexander GLASBERG (1902-1981) and his brother had been converted to Christianity. He devoted himself to the rescue of Jews fleeing the persecution of the Nazis and founded in Lyon the Christian Friendship which was going to save 108 children from the camp of Vénissieux and the deportation following the round-up of August 26, 1942.

Rescue of Jewish children during the roundup of Vénissieux on August 26, 1942

Publication date 04/02/1998 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

Valérie Perthuis, author of "Lyon contre Vichy Août 1942", returns to the Lyon round-up of 26 August 1942 leading 1200 foreign Jews to the camp of Vénissieux then deportation. 85 children were able to escape the death camps thanks to the courage of a few people. Interview with Valérie Perthuis on the rescue of these 85 children and testimony of Lotte Lévy, a 15-year-old girl at the time who escaped deportation.

60th anniversary of the Vénissieux round-up

Publication date 26/08/2002 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

In the company of Rachel Malafosse, who was rescued from the deportation during the Vénissieux round-up on August 26, 1942, he returned to the site of the Vénissieux camp, only one plaque still remembers. Valérie Portheret Perthuis, historian, recounts the conditions under which 108 children were saved from deportation.

Tribute to Germaine Chesneau who collected Jewish children saved from the Vénissieux roundup

Publication date 16/07/1992 From €100.00

1939-1945 Scoop of Vénissieux

On August 26, 1942, the Vichy regime ordered all foreign Jews in the region to be sent to Lyon for deportation. Unlike the Vel d'Hiv round-up where all Jews were deported, 108 children were saved in Lyon thanks to the Christian friendship association. 90 of these children found themselves at the castle of Peyrins at Saint Donat on the Herbasse in the Drôme where Germaine Chesneau had collected them to pay tribute to him. Interview with YiitzhakI Eldan, Israel’s Plenipotentiary Minister, on the symbolic importance of Germaine Chesneau’s struggle against anti-Semitism.

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