Roux Albert & Eugénie

Roux, Albert Roux, Eugénie File 4502 Albert Roux owned a grocery store in Chaumargeais, in the département of Haute-Loire near Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. André Chouraqui, born in 1917, lived in Chaumargeais from the summer of 1942 and was a liaison for the OSE, a Jewish organization that sheltered children. Chouraqui lived across the street from Roux’s grocery store and established a center to rescue children in the Haute-Loire region. Roux and his wife allowed the OSE to transmit urgent messages with his telephone, the only one in the area. They warned OSE agents of French militia movements and the unexpected arrival of German policemen. They also provided members of the underground with food from their store, even though food was rationed and in extremely short supply. Roux and his wife also made contacts with the underground and found peasants willing to hide Jewish children and members of the underground in their homes, often rising in the middle of a snowy night to take children from the railroad station to their new hiding places. In response to information from Mireille Philip (q.v.), the Rouxes warned André Chouraqui that a Gestapo agent was due to visit the area in order to arrest and deport him and his wife. The warning enabled the Chouraquis to move to the hiding place they had prepared. Albert Roux and his wife performed their acts of rescue with clear awareness of the dangers.. On January 8, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Albert Roux and his wife as Righteous Among the Nations.