Thread by @xavier_mart1n

1/8: ON THIS DAY, 79 years ago, my great grand uncle, Abraham Bacri, his wife, Éléonore Bacri née Moha, and their children, Reine Elsair née Bacri and William Bacri, were rounded up by 12,000 French policemen in @marseille. They lived at 7 rue Molière.

#MarseilleStolpersteine

2/8: Abraham Bacri was born in Algiers on 9 January 1893. He was the son of Joseph Bacri and Reine Smadja. He voluntarily enlisted in August 1914. He was sent back to Algiers in 1916 due to health problems, and married Éléonore Moha on 18 April.

3/8: Abraham subsequently returned to serve in multiple operations until his demobilisation due to lung disease at the end of 1918. He was awarded the Médaille commémorative de la Grande Guerre and Médaille de la Victoire at the end of the war.

#WW1 #WWI

4/8: Abraham was a French citizen thanks to the Crémieux Decree of 1870 and he being born a Sephardic Jew in French Algeria. He and his family moved to Paris in 1919. They lived in the 11th and 4th arrondissements, and finally at 43 rue de Fécamp in the 12th arrondissement.

5/8: They had five children: Joseph born in 1917, Reine in 1919, Simon in 1921, William in 1923, and Félicie in 1925. Joseph and Félicie died at a very young age. We have no record of Simon after 1931.

6/8: Abraham, Éléonore, Reine and William moved to 7 rue Molière in @marseille sometime after 1931. Between 22 and 24 January 1943, they were rounded up and taken to the Drancy internment camp.

#MarseilleStolpersteine #Holocaust #Shoah @HMD_UK @Fondation_Shoah

7/8: On 23 March, they were deported on Convoy No. 52 to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland where they were murdered. Convoy No. 52 carried 994 people, and had no survivor. It was one of the two deadliest deportation convoys from France.

@Sticht_Sobibor @Fondation_Shoah

8/8: TODAY, on the 79th anniversary of the Marseille roundup, I ask the City of @marseille to place four @_Stolpersteine_ at 7 rue Molière to commemorate my relatives Abraham, Éléonore, Reine and William Bacri.

#MarseilleStolpersteine @Le_Crif13 @yadvashemfrance @Shoah_Memorial