14th Arrondissement in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

France Bloch-Serazin

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

1. France Bloch-Serazin Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

France Bloch-Serazin
Déportée Résistante
Exécuté à Hambourg
le 12 fevrier 1943

(France Bloch-Serazin - deported member of the Resistance, executed in Hamburg on February 12, 1943)

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World II • Women.

Location. 48° 49.326′ N, 2° 19.751′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in 14th Arrondissement. It is at the intersection of Rue Monticelli and Boulevard Jourdan, on the right when traveling north on Rue Monticelli. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1 Rue Monticelli, Paris, Île-de-France 75014, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

Europe,

the European Union,

Atlantic Europe,

the Schengen Area,

Western Europe,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony

and also the Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Frédo Serazin (here, next to this marker); Lt. E. Laurent Memorial

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(about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); Roger Bauduin de Belleval (about 120 meters away); Gustave Pommier (about 240 meters away); Charles Le Goffic (approx. 0.2 kilometers away); Vladimir Ilitch Lénine / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (approx. 0.2 kilometers away); Auguste Mauclerc (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Louis Brelivet (approx. 0.4 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . France Bloch-Sérazin (Wikipedia). Excerpt:

France Bloch-Sérazin (21 February 1913 – 12 February 1943) was a chemist and militant communist who fought in the French resistance against German occupation during World War II.

After the installation of the Vichy regime, Bloch was barred from her laboratory because she was a Jewish communist and had to work as a tutor in order to survive. In 1941, she participated in the first groups of the communist resistance led by Raymond Losserand and installed a small, rudimentary laboratory in her two-room apartment on the Place du Danube located in the 19th arrondissement in Paris. Taking the name Claudia in hiding, she worked with Colonel Dumont making grenades
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

2. France Bloch-Serazin Marker - wide view
The memorial for France Bloch-Serazin is visible here, just to the left of the one for her husband, Fredo Serazin.
and detonators used in attacks organized by the youth resistance (called the Young Battalions) at the end of August 1941.

Bloch was arrested by the French police on 16 May 1942. After four months of interrogation and torture, she was condemned to death by a German military tribunal, along with 18 co-conspirators (who were all immediately executed). Meanwhile, Bloch herself was deported to Germany and imprisoned in a fortress at Lübeck. She was subjected to further torture there, and was decapitated by guillotine in Hamburg on 12 February 1943.

(Submitted on March 7, 2025.)

France Bloch-Serazin Memorial - wider view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 27, 2024

3. France Bloch-Serazin Memorial - wider view

France Bloch-Serazin image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Emma7stern (via Wikimedia Commons under CC 3.0 license)

4. France Bloch-Serazin

Credits. This page was last revised on April 7, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 7, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 236 times since then and 44 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 7, 2025, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.