Izieu

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Izieu

Commune

Location of Izieu

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Coordinates: 45°39′19″N 5°38′39″E﻿ / ﻿45.6553°N 5.6442°E﻿ / 45.6553; 5.6442
Country| France
Region| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department| Ain
Arrondissement| Belley
Canton| Belley
Government

• Mayor (2020–2026) | Denis Martin-Barbaz[1]

Area

| 7.67 km2 (2.96 sq mi)
Population

(2022)[2]

| 223
• Density| 29/km2 (75/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code|

01193 /01300

Elevation| 211–758 m (692–2,487 ft)
(avg. 350 m or 1,150 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Izieu (French pronunciation: [izjø]) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It lies on the river Rhône, between the cities of Lyon and Chambéry.

The Commune is famous for the 1944 abduction by the Nazis of the children and staff from the Izieu orphanage.

## Site of World War II Jewish orphanage

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Place des Enfants Juifs Tribute to the Jewish orphans of Izieu who perished.

Izieu was the site of a Jewish orphanage during the Second World War. However, most of the children were only separated from their parents or sent purposely in the Savoy mountains which was then under Italian rule. Italy was less oppressive in that time. On 6 April 1944, three vehicles pulled up in front of the orphanage. The Gestapo, under the direction of the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks.

As a witness later recalled: 'I was on my way down the stairs when my sister shouted to me: It's the Germans, run away! I jumped out the window. I hid myself in a bush in the garden. I heard the cries of the children that were being kidnapped and I heard the shouts of the Nazis who were carrying them away.'

Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the children were shipped directly to the "collection center" in Drancy, then put on the first available train towards the concentration camps in the East.[3]

Forty-two children and five adults were gassed in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Two of the oldest children and Miron Zlatin, the superintendent, ended up in Tallinn, Estonia, and were killed by a firing squad.

The orphanage director Sabine Zlatin survived the Gestapo raid, being away collecting funds for the institution. Some 40 years later she testified against Barbie at his trial. Towards the end of her life, she convinced the president François Mitterrand to turn the orphanage premises into a memorial.

## Population

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Historical populationYear| Pop.| ±% p.a.

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1968 | 103| —
1975 | 141| +4.59%
1982 | 136| −0.51%
1990 | 161| +2.13%
1999 | 178| +1.12%
2009 | 202| +1.27%
2014 | 231| +2.72%
2020 | 220| −0.81%
Source: INSEE[4]

## See also

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* Communes of the Ain department

## References

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1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
2. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. ^ Robbins, Christopher. Test of Courage: The Michel Thomas Story (2000). New York Free Press/Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0263-3/Republished as Courage Beyond Words (2007). New York McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-149911-3
4. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 10 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Izieu.

* Official Website of Holocaust Memorial Maison d'Izieu
* The Children Of Izieu at the Wayback Machine (archived 2021-05-17)
* the Jewish orphanage in Izieu during the Holocaust \- an online exhibition at Yad Vashem website

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* Ambérieux-en-Dombes
* Ambléon
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* Andert-et-Condon
* Anglefort
* Apremont
* Aranc
* Arandas
* Arbent
* Arbigny
* Arboys en Bugey
* Argis
* Armix
* Ars-sur-Formans
* Artemare
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* Asnières-sur-Saône
* Attignat
* Bâgé-Dommartin
* Bâgé-le-Châtel
* Balan
* Baneins
* Béard-Géovreissiat
* Beaupont
* Beauregard
* Béligneux
* Belleysubpr
* Belleydoux
* Bellignat
* Bénonces
* Bény
* Béréziat
* Bettant
* Bey
* Beynost
* Billiat
* Birieux
* Biziat
* Blyes
* Bohas-Meyriat-Rignat
* La Boisse
* Boissey
* Bolozon
* Bouligneux
* Bourg-en-Bressepref
* Bourg-Saint-Christophe
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* Certines
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* Chalamont
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* Champfromier
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* La Chapelle-du-Châtelard
* Charix
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* Chevillard
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* Civrieux
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* Cleyzieu
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* Colomieu
* Conand
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* Crottet
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* Culoz-Béon
* Curciat-Dongalon
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* Cuzieu
* Dagneux
* Divonne-les-Bains
* Dompierre-sur-Chalaronne
* Dompierre-sur-Veyle
* Domsure
* Dortan
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* Drom
* Druillat
* Échallon
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* Évosges
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* Francheleins
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* Genouilleux
* Géovreisset
* Gexsubpr
* Giron
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* Grand-Corent
* Grièges
* Grilly
* Groissiat
* Groslée-Saint-Benoît
* Guéreins
* Hautecourt-Romanèche
* Haut Valromey
* Illiat
* Injoux-Génissiat
* Innimond
* Izenave
* Izernore
* Izieu
* Jassans-Riottier
* Jasseron
* Jayat
* Journans
* Joyeux
* Jujurieux
* Labalme
* Lagnieu
* Laiz
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* Lapeyrouse
* Lavours
* Léaz
* Lélex
* Lent
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* Leyment
* Leyssard
* Lhuis
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* Lurcy
* Magnieu
* Maillat
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* Marsonnas
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* Massieux
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* Matafelon-Granges
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* Meximieux
* Mézériat
* Mijoux
* Mionnay
* Miribel
* Misérieux
* Mogneneins
* Montagnat
* Montagnieu
* Montanges
* Montceaux
* Montcet
* Le Montellier
* Monthieux
* Montluel
* Montmerle-sur-Saône
* Montracol
* Montréal-la-Cluse
* Montrevel-en-Bresse
* Murs-et-Gélignieux
* Nantuasubpr
* Neuville-les-Dames
* Neuville-sur-Ain
* Les Neyrolles
* Neyron
* Niévroz
* Nivigne et Suran
* Nivollet-Montgriffon
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* Oncieu
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* Pirajoux
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* Le Plantay
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* Le Poizat-Lalleyriat
* Polliat
* Pollieu
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* Port
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* Prémeyzel
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* Priay
* Ramasse
* Rancé
* Relevant
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* Revonnas
* Reyrieux
* Reyssouze
* Rignieux-le-Franc
* Romans
* Rossillon
* Saint-Alban
* Saint-André-de-Bâgé
* Saint-André-de-Corcy
* Saint-André-d'Huiriat
* Saint-André-le-Bouchoux
* Saint-André-sur-Vieux-Jonc
* Saint-Bénigne
* Saint-Bernard
* Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon
* Saint-Denis-en-Bugey
* Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg
* Saint-Didier-d'Aussiat
* Saint-Didier-de-Formans
* Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
* Sainte-Croix
* Sainte-Euphémie
* Sainte-Julie
* Saint-Éloi
* Sainte-Olive
* Saint-Étienne-du-Bois
* Saint-Étienne-sur-Chalaronne
* Saint-Étienne-sur-Reyssouze
* Saint-Genis-Pouilly
* Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon
* Saint-Georges-sur-Renon
* Saint-Germain-de-Joux
* Saint-Germain-les-Paroisses
* Saint-Germain-sur-Renon
* Saint-Jean-de-Gonville
* Saint-Jean-de-Niost
* Saint-Jean-de-Thurigneux
* Saint-Jean-le-Vieux
* Saint-Jean-sur-Reyssouze
* Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle
* Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze
* Saint-Julien-sur-Veyle
* Saint-Just
* Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône
* Saint-Marcel
* Saint-Martin-de-Bavel
* Saint-Martin-du-Frêne
* Saint-Martin-du-Mont
* Saint-Martin-le-Châtel
* Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
* Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans
* Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens
* Saint-Nizier-le-Bouchoux
* Saint-Nizier-le-Désert
* Saint-Paul-de-Varax
* Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey
* Saint-Rémy
* Saint-Sorlin-en-Bugey
* Saint-Sulpice
* Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes
* Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
* Saint-Vulbas
* Salavre
* Samognat
* Sandrans
* Sault-Brénaz
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* Sergy
* Sermoyer
* Serrières-de-Briord
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* Servas
* Servignat
* Seyssel
* Simandre-sur-Suran
* Sonthonnax-la-Montagne
* Souclin
* Sulignat
* Surjoux-Lhopital
* Talissieu
* Tenay
* Thil
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* Thoissey
* Torcieu
* Tossiat
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* Varambon
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* Vesancy
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* Villeneuve
* Villereversure
* Villes
* Villette-sur-Ain
* Villieu-Loyes-Mollon
* Viriat
* Virieu-le-Grand
* Virignin
* Vongnes
* Vonnas

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Prelude|

* Action Française
* Boulangism
* Camelots du Roi
* Dreyfus affair
* Fall of France
* French colonial empire
* Nuremberg Laws
* Phoney War
* Third Republic
* History of the Jews in France
* Treaty of Versailles
* Article 231
* War guilt question
* Henry Dorgères

Beginnings|

* Armistice of 22 June 1940
* French Constitutional Law of 1940
* The Eighty
* Philippe Pétain
* Hôtel du Parc
* Zone libre

Participants|

* Joseph Antignac
* Jean-Marie Bergeret
* René Bousquet
* Louis Bourgain
* André Broc
* Alexis Carrel
* Jacques Charpentier [fr]
* Henry Coston
* Pierre-Antoine Cousteau
* François Darlan
* Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
* Marcel Déat
* Charles du Paty de Clam
* Pierre-Étienne Flandin
* Philippe Henriot
* Gaston Henry-Haye
* Charles Huntziger
* Pierre Laval
* Jean Leguay
* Jean Luchaire
* Bernard Ménétrel
* George Montandon
* Maurice Papon
* Philippe Pétain
* Pierre Pucheu
* Simon Sabiani
* Paul Touvier
* André Tulard
* Xavier Vallat
* Maxime Weygand
* Carltheo Zeitschel

Governments|

* Government of Vichy France
* Pétain government
* First Laval government
* Flandin government
* Darlan government
* Second Laval government

Parties and
organizations|

* National Council
* French League
* French National-Collectivist Party
* French Popular Party
* Jeunesse Populaire Française
* Mouvement Franciste
* Légion Française des Combattants
* National Popular Rally
* Revolutionary Social Movement
* Peasant Corporation

Legal and
treaties|

* Anti-Jewish laws
* Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre
* List of constitutional laws of the Vichy regime [fr]
* French Constitutional Law of 1940
* Paris Protocols
* Riom Trial
* Service du travail obligatoire

Policy &
politics|

* Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
* Collaboration with Imperial Japan
* Foreign relations
* French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems
* La Jeune France
* Police collaboration in Vichy France
* Political situation in French Africa [fr]
* Révolution nationale
* Special Sections
* Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline

Press and
propaganda|

* Antisemitic publications
* Censorship under the occupation [fr]
* Underground media in German-occupied France
* Freedom of the Press Ordinances of 1944 [fr]
* Le Juif et la France
* Maréchal, nous voilà !
* Newspapers confiscated for collaboration
* Office français d'information

* Press: L'Alerte [fr]
* L'Appel
* Aujourd'hui
* Le Cahier jaune [fr]
* Le Cri du peuple [fr; it]
* Combats [fr]
* Documents maçonniques [fr]
* L'Émancipation nationale [fr]
* La France [fr]
* France, revue de l'État nouveau [fr]
* Ici la France [fr]
* Idées [fr]
* Je suis partout
* Revivre [fr]
* Révolution nationale [fr]
* La Semaine [fr]
* L'Union française [fr]

Territory|

* Zone libre
* Occupied zone
* Syria and Lebanon mandate

| French North Africa|

* French Algeria
* Morocco
* Tunisia

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French West Africa|

* Ivory Coast
* Dahomey
* Sudan
* Guinea
* Mauritania
* Niger
* Senegal
* Upper Volta
* Togoland

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French Equatorial Africa|

* Chad
* Middle Congo
* Ubangi-Shari
* Cameroon

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Asia & Oceania|

* French India
* French Indochina
* Cambodia
* French protectorate of Laos
* Cochinchina
* Annam
* Tonkin
* Kouang-Tchéou-Wan
* New Hebrides

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Jewish
affairs|

| Laws|

* Law on the status of Jews
* Law regarding foreign nationals of the Jewish race
* Second law on the status of Jews

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Administration|

* Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs
* Order of Physicians [fr]
* UGIF

Roundups|

* French Riviera [fr]
* Green ticket
* Clermont-Ferrand [fr; it]
* Izieu
* Marseille
* Lyon
* Vel' d'Hiv
* Villeurbanne [fr; it]

Discrimination
and plunder|

* Aryanisation
* Nazi plunder
* Yellow badge
* Yellow badge in France [fr]

Camps|

* Beaune-la-Rolande
* Drancy
* Gurs
* Milles
* Natzweiler-Struthof (subcamps)
* Noé
* Pithiviers
* Récébédou
* Rieucros
* Romainville
* Royallieu-Compiègne
* Rivesaltes
* Septfonds
* Vernet

Deportation|

* Deportation convoys [fr]
* Deportation timeline
* Holocaust timeline
* The Holocaust in France

Military|

| Forces|

| Regular|

* 1st Regiment [fr]
* 7th Military Division
* 14th Military Division
* 15th Military Division
* Armistice Army
* Army of the Levant
* Air Force
* Navy
* Guard

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Militia|

* Service d'ordre légionnaire
* Groupe mobile de réserve
* Milice
* Franc-Garde
* Special Brigades

Auxiliary|

* SS Charlemagne division
* Carlingue
* Légion impériale
* Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism

Battles|

* 1940
* Mers-el-Kébir
* Gibraltar
* Dakar
* Gabon
* Indochina
* Franco-Thai War
* Ko Chang
* 1941
* Syria–Lebanon
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* 1942
* Madagascar
* Operation Bright Moon
* Wallis and Futuna
* Torch
* Anton
* Toulon
* Réunion

Officers|

* François Darlan
* Henri Giraud
* Philippe Pétain

Dissolution|

* Operation Overlord
* Liberation of Paris
* Siegfried Line campaign
* Sigmaringen enclave
* Fernand de Brinon
* Joseph Darnand
* Jean Luchaire
* Eugène Bridoux
* Marcel Déat

Aftermath
& Impact|

* Liberation of France
* Ordinance of 9 August 1944
* Provisional Government
* Épuration légale
* Épuration sauvage
* Municipal elections of 1945
* 1946 legislative election
* Fourth Republic
* Trial of Philippe Pétain
* Klaus Barbie trial
* Holocaust denial in France [fr]
* Mission Mattéoli
* Anti-Gaullism
* Vichy syndrome

History
& Media|

| History|

* The Destruction of the European Jews
* Strange Defeat

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Film|

* Bombing the Nazis
* The Eye of Vichy
* Milice, film noir
* The Sorrow and the Pity
* Uranus

Fiction|

* Castle to Castle
* Section spéciale
* Le Silence de la mer
* Suite française

* Occupied France
* French Resistance
* Year in France
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944
* Category:Vichy France

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* Czech Republic
* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX

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