Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup

Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup
	Commemorative plaque of the roundup victims, rue Sainte-Catherine in Lyon
Native name	Rafle de la rue Sainte-Catherine
English name	Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup
Date	9 February 1943
Location	Lyon
Organised by	Gestapo
Outcome	83 deported
Arrests	86 people 24 women; 62 men;

The rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup was a Nazi raid and mass arrest of Jews in Lyon's Sainte-Catherine street by the Gestapo. The raid, ordered and personally overseen by Klaus Barbie, took place on 9 February 1943 at the Fédération des sociétés juives de France (Federation of Jewish Societies of France), then located at the number 12 of this street. To catch as many people as possible, the Nazis not only chose the day the Federation normally gave free medical treatment and food to poor Jewish refugees, but they also set up a trap by forcing arrested Federation employees to encourage further people to come to the 12 rue Sainte Catherine.

A total of 86 Jewish people were arrested, 84 of whom were then sent to the Drancy internment camp. Ultimately 83 people were deported to the extermination camps of Sobibor and Auschwitz, and to a lesser extent to Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Majdanek. Of those arrested, two escaped before deportation, one was released from Drancy, and only three survived the extermination camps. A number of victims belonged to the French Resistance. The rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup was one of the main charges against Barbie at his trial. Malvine Lanzet, then 14 years old, the prisoner released from Drancy, testified at the trial in 1987. Further written testimonies were given by the few surviving witnesses.

^ dm (10 February 2013). "Lyon - Commémoration de la rafle de la rue Sainte-Catherine". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French).

[dm_2013-1] (10 February 2013). "Lyon - Commémoration de la rafle de la rue Sainte-Catherine". France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (in French).

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