The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Rillieux-la-Pape
août 1944·Rillieux-la-Pape
Toll
bilan non établi
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Jewish hostages are shot near Lyon in reprisal, a few days before the German retreat.
At the end of June, the French Militia took Jewish hostages from the Montluc fort in Lyon and shot them at Rillieux-la-Pape, in retaliation for the execution of a Vichy government minister by the Resistance. The bodies were left on site. The regional chief of the Militia publicly claimed responsibility for the operation, which was one of the charges brought against him at his trial after the war.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Sources
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.