Marcel LATTÈS

Marcel Lattès was born on December 11, 1886 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), in the south of France. He was a composer and musician who played the piano and created several operettas and film scores. He participated in the First World War during which he served as a nurse. During the 1920s, he married a young Catholic woman with whom he had a child.

In 1941, he was arrested for the first time at the same time as 743 other Jews during the "Roundup of the Notables" and was interned for some time in Compiègne and then in Drancy before being released thanks to Sacha Guitry and Marcel Lattès' brother. He lived free again for some time before being arrested a second time on October 4, 1943. He spent two months in the Drancy internment camp under the number 5338 before being deported to Auschwitz by convoy 64 on December 7. He lost his life when the train arrived, probably in the gas chambers, on December 10, 1943.

Thanks to Thierry Noël-Guitelman and to his page on Marcel Lattès which is even more complete (you can find it by clicking here if you want to know more) for his information and this photo.