Montmartre in Paris in Département Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe

École de Orsel Deported Jewish Students Memorial

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 10, 2025

1. École de Orsel Deported Jewish Students Memorial plaque

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

À la mémoire des élèves de cette école, déportés de 1942 à 1944 parce que nés juifs, victimes innocentes de la barbarie nazie et du gouvernement de vichy.

Ils furent exterminés dans les camps de la mort. Plus de 700 de ces enfants vivaient dans le 18eme.

Ne les oublions jamais

(English translation:)
In memory of the students of this school, deported between 1942 and 1944 because they were born Jewish, innocent victims of Nazi barbarity and the Vichy government.

They were exterminated in the death camps. More than 700 of these children lived in the 18th arrondissement.

Let us never forget them.

Erected 2005.

Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.

Location. 48° 53.014′ N, 2° 20.453′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département Paris. It is in Montmartre. It is on Rue d'Orsel, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 54 Rue d'Orsel, Paris, Île-de-France 75018, France. Touch for directions.

Regionally,

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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: Le dispensaire de Clemenceau / Clemenceau’s Dispensary (about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); Georges Clemenceau (about 120 meters away); Square Louise-Michel (about 150 meters away); Jean Roger Debrais (about 180 meters away); Départ de Gambetta en ballon / Departure of Gambetta by Balloon (about 210 meters away); Eglise Saint-Jean-l’Evangéliste (about 210 meters away); La Grande Crue de 1910 / The Great Flood of 1910 (approx. 0.2 kilometers away); David Kutner (approx. 0.2 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paris.

Also see . . . The Deportation of the Jews from France (Yad Vashem). Excerpt:

A total of some 76,000 Jews from France, most of them from Paris, among them 11,000 children, were deported by train to the East. Most
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 10, 2025

2. École de Orsel Deported Jewish Students Memorial - wide view
of the deportees were murdered in Auschwitz. Most of the deportations left France from the concentration camp of Drancy. The deportations continued even as the Allies had begun to liberate France. The last transport left France in August 1944, while the battle for Paris was being fought. Of all the Jews deported from France to the extermination camps in the East, a total of some 2,500 survived.

(Submitted on January 27, 2026.)

École de Orsel Deported Jewish Students Memorial - wider view image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 10, 2025

3. École de Orsel Deported Jewish Students Memorial - wider view

Credits. This page was last revised on January 27, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 27, 2026, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 65 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on January 27, 2026, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.