Péraudeau Marius

Péraudeau, Marius File 5455 The Tenenbaums, Parisian Jews, lead an ordinary life even after the capital came under German occupation. However, in the great roundup of July 1942, M. Tenenbaum, Mme Tenenbaum, and their son, Georges, were arrested. Georges escaped and attempted to cross into the unoccupied zone. He was captured, and all three were deported to camps in the east, never to return. A second son, Emile, was a prisoner of war, and the youngest son, Pierre, was hosted by a family friend, who took him to Marius Péraudeau, a friend of his. Péraudeau owned a paper factory, and a small museum on the history of the paper industry, near Ambert, in the département of Puy-de-Dôme. Although Péraudeau knew that Pierre was Jewish and that his family had been arrested, he sheltered him and gave him work in his factory. At the end of the war, Emile Tenenbaum was released and came to Ambert to reclaim his young brother, his only surviving relative. On November 24, 1992, Yad Vashem recognized Marius Péraudeau as Righteous Among the Nations.