Jacques Helbronner

Jacques Helbronner was born on 21 September 1873 in Paris, France. His father, Horace Helbronner, was a lawyer. His mother, Hermance Saint-Paul, was a housewife. Helbronner graduated from Sciences Po. He received a Doctorate in Law. He did his military service from 1894 to 1895. ==Career==

Helbronner was a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Paris from 1895 to 1898. He was a supporter of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who told him he had been pressured by the German invaders into passing antisemitic laws. Similarly, Xavier Vallat told Helbronner he would change those laws and spare 95 percent of French Jews. Historian Jacques Adler has argued Helbronner was misled by the Vichy government. ==Death==

Helbronner was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943, where he was murdered in a gas chamber by the Nazis. ==See also==