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René Blum (impresario)

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In the summer of 1940, after the German occupation of Paris, Blum returned to France to be with his family. He was arrested on 12 December 1941 in his Parisian home, among the first Jews to be arrested in Paris by the French police. He was held in the
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Blum and de Basil fell out in 1934, and their Ballets Russes partnership dissolved. Blum kept ballet alive in Monte Carlo. In short order, he hired choreographer
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in late September 1942. While at the camps, he was known for keeping up the spirits of his fellow prisoners with tales of his life in the arts.
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heir Julius Fleischmann, Jr.'s World Art, Inc. to create a new ballet company. In 1938, their new company was allowed to regain the name
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At the turn of the 20th century he was an editor at the Parisian literary journal
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He became director of plays and operettas at Monte Carlo in 1924, where
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René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life.
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French people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
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and a popular theatre critic. He became a friend of
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René Blum (ballet)

Paris
Auschwitz-Birkenau
German-occupied Poland
impresario
Ballet de l'Opéra
Monte Carlo
Léon Blum
Croix de Guerre
French Jewish
impresario
Ballet de l'Opéra
Monte Carlo
Socialist
Prime Minister of France
Léon Blum
Nazis
Auschwitz concentration camp
Gil Blas
Marcel Proust
Bernard Grasset
Du côté de chez Swann
World War I
Battle of the Somme
Amiens Cathedral
Croix de Guerre
Sergei Diaghilev
Ballets Russes
Louis II, Prince of Monaco

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