Izieu (French pronunciation: [izjø]) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

Following the raid on their home in Izieu, the children were shipped directly to the "collection center" in Drancy, then put on the first available train towards the concentration camps in the East.

Two of the oldest children and Miron Zlatin, the superintendent, ended up in Tallinn, Estonia, and were killed by a firing squad.

The orphanage director Sabine Zlatin survived the Gestapo raid, being away collecting funds for the institution.

Towards the end of her life, she convinced the president François Mitterrand to turn the orphanage premises into a memorial.