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Memorial Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin Fondane was a poet, literary critic, and philosopher who produced most of his literary works in Paris in the 1930s.
He was arrested in March 1944. He was imprisoned in Drancy and deported to Auschwitz, where he was assassinated in a gas chamber on 2nd (or 3rd) October 1944.
A plaque is affixed at 6 rue Rollin in Paris, his home between 15th April 1932 and 7th March 1944.

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Source

  • Text: Luc Van Waeyenberge
  • Photos: Luc Van Waeyenberge

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