Maison d’Izieu 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.

On 6 April 1944, 44 children between the ages of 4 and 17 and 7 adults were arrested and deported on the orders of Klaus Barbie, head of the Gestapo in Lyon. With the exception of two teenagers and Miron Zlatin, who were shot in Reval (today Tallinn) in Estonia, the group was deported to Auschwitz. Only Lea Feldlum returned.

A large rally was held in their honour on 6 April 2023. ©Maison d’Izieu

Commemoration of the raid on 6 April 2023