The Engros Family Memorial Plaque stands at 18 rue des Écouffes, in the Jewish Marais of Paris. It marks the building where the Engros family lived during the German occupation.

The Engros family at Rue des Écouffes

The plaque remembers Marcel, Lucien and André Engros, three young Jewish communist resistance fighters from the 4th arrondissement. It also recalls their mother, Rosalie Engros, who lived with them at this address.

Lucien Engros was shot at the Balard firing range on 22 August 1942. Marcel Engros was shot at Mont-Valérien on 21 September 1942. André Engros, the youngest of the brothers, was shot at Mont-Valérien on 1 October 1943. He was sixteen years old.

Execution, deportation and family memory

The family history goes beyond the three brothers named on the plaque. Their mother, Rosalie Getner Engros, was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in convoy no. 34, where she died. Their father, Isaac Engros, was also interned, transferred to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz in convoy no. 67, where he was murdered.

The plaque is placed here because this was the family’s home. Its opening words, “Ici vécurent”, “Here lived”, connect the memory directly to the building and to the street.

The exact date when the Engros Family Memorial Plaque was installed is not clearly documented in the sources consulted. Paris municipal data records the plaque at 18 rue des Écouffes, and it was already photographed at this address in 2012.