Commemoration of July 16
The most emblematic ceremony at the Maison d’Izieu is the one which takes place on April 6 in order to commemorate the roundup of 1944 …
Tempory exhibition “The year 1943 at the Home, in the Maison d’Izieu’s collections”
In May 1943, the house welcomes its first group of Jewish children – coming from the French department of Hérault – to protect …
Commemoration of the raid on the Colonie d’Izieu Colony, 6 April
80 years ago, in April 1943, Sabine and Miron Zlatin opened the “Colonie des enfants réfugiés de l’Hérault”. For almost a year, more than a hundred Jewish children from all over Europe were taken in at the Maison d’Izieu to escape racist and anti-Semitic persecution. Sixty-one of them were saved.