DOCUMENTARY RESOURCES

In front of the fountain at the Maison d’Izieu. Standing on the left: Jacques Benguigui (dressed up), on the right: Max-Marcel Balsam (holding a hat on the end of a stick), in the background on the left: Arnold Hirsch; in front of him, Theo Reis. In the middle, the adults, from left to right: Philippe Dehan, Marcelle Ajzenberg, Berthe Mehring, Miron Zlatin (director and treasurer of the home) In the foreground from left to right: Jacques Benguigui, Paula Mermelstein, Georgy Halpern, Sigmund Springer (with his head facing the other way), Esther Benassayag, Nina Aronowicz, Claude Levan-Reifman (only his eyes can be seen because of an unidentified child crouching in the foreground). © Maison d’Izieu / Coll. Left to the Maison by Sabine Zlatin

On 5 February 1946, Edgar Faure referred to the Izieu case in front of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. This document appears in the French deputy trial judge, Robert Falco’s, archives, which are kept at the Maison d’Izieu. The original telegram was brought forth by Serge Klarsfeld on 15 May 1987 at the 5th hearing of the Barbie trial and provided overwhelming evidence, proving the accused was guilty of the crime against humanity. © Maison d’Izieu / Falco Collection

On 5 February 1946, Edgar Faure referred to the Izieu case before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. This document appears in the French deputy trial judge, Robert Falco’s, archives, which are kept at the Maison d’Izieu. The original telegram was brought forth by Serge Klarsfeld on 15 May 1987 at the 5th hearing of the Barbie trial and proved to be overwhelming evidence, showing the accused was guilty of the crime against humanity. © Maison d’Izieu / Falco Fund

Double portrait of Sabine and Miron Zlatin in an oval medallion. On the back is a handwritten inscription in Polish, written by Sabine Zlatin: “Kochanemn Mirkowi jego Yanka Nancy du 22/I -1927” (“To my beloved Miron, your Yanka…”). Yanka was the nickname that Sabine Zlatin’s father called her and it later became her artist-painter name. © Maison d’Izieu / Coll. Left to the Maison by Sabine Zlatin

Ink drawing by a schoolboy and a watercolour painting on white paper. On the front – all along the bottom there is a river; all through the middle there is a bank where there is a wolf standing on its hind legs; it is fighting a stork that is flying and pecking at it with its beak, it is carrying a small child which is hung round its neck; at the top: on the right and left, trees; in the middle: blue sky. On the back – in terms of height, from the top and going down to the middle, the following text : « Chèr frère je te souhaite une bonne et heureuse anniversaire. J’espère pour tes 10 ans tu sera plus raisonnable et plus gentil. Je te fais se dessin pour te rappeler de ton frère garde le toujours accroche le au-dessus de ton lit. J’espère que bientôt la paix règnera et qu’ont reverront papa et maman, et nos oncles tantes et cousins. Petêtre l’année prochaine se sera plus bonne fête que celui-là. Tu sais bien que je ne pas d’argent pour t’acheter des timbres mais je tâcherais de ten trouver je t’offre se dessin quand même que moi même je dessiné et peint. La part de Max Teitel » “Dear brother, I wish you a happy birthday. I hope that now your 10 you’ll be more reasonable and nicer. I’m drawing this picture to reemind you of your brother always keep it hang it over your bed . I hope that there will be piece again soon and that we will see Mum and Dad and our ants and cousins and uncels again. May be next year we will have more of a party than this year. You no that I don’t have any munee to buy you stamps but I’ll try and find you some. here is my drawing anyway that I drawed and painted all by myself. By Max Teitel”. At the bottom: two characters are facing each other: the one on the left is holding out a present and says Happy Birthday, the one on the right is saying thank you; just across from this, on the left: a small plane seems to be taking off. The front of the aircraft is touching the edge of the sheet on the left. In the bottom left hand corner it says: For Armand Teteil who is 10 years old. © Maison d’Izieu / Bibliothèque nationale de France / Coll. Sabine Zlatin

View of the house where the children and adults lived between May 1943 and 6 April 1944, the day of the roundup. Bought by the “Memorial Museum” association in 1990, thanks to national fundraising and the generosity of many donors, the house has been open to visitors since 1994, the date the site was inaugurated.

On 6 April 2015, new buildings were inaugurated. They facilitated the creation of a permanent exhibition, spanning over 530m², but it also opened up more space for educational activities, for the documentation centre and for storing archives to professional standards.