René Blum (impresario)
Deportation and death
### Deportation and death

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 [Beaune\-la\-Rolande internment camp](/wiki/Beaune-la-Rolande_internment_camp "Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp"), then in the [Drancy internment camp](/wiki/Drancy_internment_camp "Drancy internment camp"). On 23 September 1942 he was shipped to the [Auschwitz concentration camp](/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp "Auschwitz concentration camp").[*The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, Session 32* (Part 5 of 5\)](http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-032-05.html) , Georges Wellers testimony at the trial of [Eichmann](/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann "Adolf Eichmann"). He was murdered by the Nazis at age 64 in late September 1942\.


Where was Blum arrested in 1941?