Alexandre Persitz

Alexandre Persitz (4 June 1910 – 15 July 1975)[1] was a Russian-born French Modernist architect.

[2] During World War II, he was sent to concentration camps by the Nazi invaders.

[2] Persitz began his career as an architect by redesigning the port of Le Havre with Auguste Perret shortly after World War II.

[2] In 1953–1956, he designed the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr on Rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier in the 4th arrondissement of Paris with Georges Goldberg.

[10][11][12] Persitz was the editor-in-chief of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, a French magazine about architecture, from 1949 to 1965.

Registration card of Alexandre Persitz as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp
The Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel in Paris.