Capiod Henri & Amélie (Prieur); Son: Régis

Capiod, Henri Capiod, Amélie Capiod, Régis File 4915 Henri and Amélie Capiod and their son, Régis, lived in Paris. Amélie was the concierge of a building in the sixteenth arrondissement. In December 1943, Francis Pluntz, César Chamay, and Félix Dratwa knocked on the Capiods’ door. The Germans had arrested the three Jews earlier that year as they attempted to cross into Spain to join General de Gaulle’s forces. They had been taken to the detention camp in Drancy and put aboard a train en route to camps in the east, but they managed to jump off the train. César Chamay, an old acquaintance of the Capiods, decided to place his trust in them, and his confidence was not misplaced. Despite the enormous dangers, the Capiods immediately agreed to shelter the three Jews in their small apartment. Francis Pluntz stayed with the Capiods for about two weeks and then joined a group of Maquis fighters operating in southern France. Chamay and Dratwa joined a Jewish underground group in Paris, sponsored by the Armée Juive, and remained in hiding with the Capiods. The Capiods did not object to turning their home into a permanent rendezvous for Jewish underground activists. They even agreed to hide the underground’s weapons and important documents there. In addition, despite the danger, the Capiods occasionally allowed Jewish underground operatives to spend the night. The Capiod family was nearly arrested in July 1944, when the German intelligence services arrested fourteen major activists in the Jewish underground, including César Chamay. Their comrades, who had escaped arrest., rushed to the Capiods’ home to remove the documents and weapons hidden there. Several days later, the Gestapo, who searched the Capiod home thoroughly, found nothing suspicious. The Capiods never requested payment for their assistance, which was motivated by purely humanitarian considerations. On May 15, 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Henri and Amélie Capiod and their son Régis as Righteous Among theNations.