René Blum (ballet)

René Blum (ballet)

René Blum (Paris, 13 March 1878 - Auschwitz, 30 April 1943), choreographer, was the founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra at Monte Carlo.

Background

Of Jewish heritage, he was the brother of the Socialist Prime Minister of France, Léon Blum.

Founder of Ballet of Monte-Carlo

In 1931, Blum was hired to form the Ballet of the Opera of Monte-Carlo by Prince Louis II of Monaco.

Deportation and death

René Blum was arrested on December 12 1941 in his Parisian home, among the first jews to be arrested in Paris by the French Police. He was held in the Beaune-la-Rolande camp, then in the Drancy deportation camp. On September 23 1942, he was shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was later killed by the Nazis.


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