Jacques Helbronner (1873-1943) was a French jurist, civil servant and Jewish official.

[2] He was a supporter of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who told him he had been pressured by the German invaders into passing antisemitic laws.

[3] Similarly, Xavier Vallat told Helbronner he would change those laws and spare 95 percent of French Jews.

[4] Historian Jacques Adler has argued Helbronner was misled by the Vichy government.

[5] Helbronner was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943,[6] where he was murdered in a gas chamber by the Nazis.