Saint-Merri in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

Hippolyte Perrau

Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, July 26, 2022

1. Hippolyte Perrau Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Dans cette maison
a vécu et été arrêté
Hippolyte Perrau
sergent des groupes armés
du Front National
déporté a Auschwitz
il y a été assassiné en 7bre 1942

(English translation:)

This is the house in which Hippolyte Perrau, a sergeant in the National Front, lived and was arrested. Deported to Auschwitz, he was murdered there in July, 1942.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. A significant historical month for this entry is July 1942.

Location. 48° 51.51′ N, 2° 21.209′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Saint-Merri. Memorial is on Rue de Temple, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 18 Rue de Temple, Paris, Île-de-France 75004, France. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Bertrand du Guesclin (a few steps from this marker); Rafle du «Billet Vert » / Green Ticket Roundup (about 240 meters away, measured in a direct line); Commune de Paris / The Paris Commune (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Jean Le Rond d'Alambert

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(approx. half a kilometer away); Tribunal de Commerce (approx. 0.6 kilometers away); La Conciergerie (approx. 0.6 kilometers away); Charles Nègre (1820-1880) (approx. 0.6 kilometers away); Marcel Rey (approx. 0.6 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . Hippolyte Perrau biography (Déportés politiques à Auschwitz, in French). An extensive biography of Perrau by a website that is focused on those deported in July 1942, known as the "45,000" - a set of roughly more than 1,000 that were rounded up and sent to the concentration camps for their political beliefs.

Excerpt concerning the convoy in which Perrau was deported (in translation): "This convoy is made up from Compiègne of 1,175 men (1,100 "Communist hostages" - young Communists, former political leaders and elected members of the Communist Party, CGT trade unionists and pre-war staff delegates, militants and clandestine trade unionists, resistance fighters – fifty “Jewish hostages” and a few “common rights”). It was part of the German terror measures intended to combat in France the "Judeo-Bolsheviks" responsible, in Hitler's
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, July 26, 2022

2. Hippolyte Perrau Marker - wide view
eyes, for the armed actions organized by the underground Communist Party against officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht, from August 1941."

(Submitted on August 16, 2022.)

Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 16, 2022, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 66 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 16, 2022, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.