Henri Reichenbach

Henri Reichenbach (born 29 January 1891 in Paris, died September 1941 in New York) was a French businessman who co-founded Prisunic in 1931. Forced to emigrate because of his Jewish heritage, he committed suicide after the Nazi invasion of France.

His wife, Jeanne Reichenbach, had a famous love affair with France's first Jewish prime minister, Léon Blum, joining Blum and becoming his wife in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943.[1] A version of this story was fictionalized in a movie, Je ne rêve que de vous [2][3][4][5] based on a book, Je vous promets de revenir, by Dominique Missika.[6]

Reichnbach's father, Emile Reichenbach, was the vice president of the Comité France-Suisse.[7]

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  2. ^ "Jeanne Reichenbach : l'ultime amour de Léon Blum". Women Today (in French). 2020-01-19. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  3. ^ "La Maison". Maison Léon Blum (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  4. ^ "Her Love for France's First Jewish Prime Minister Made Her Follow Him to Buchenwald". Haaretz. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  5. ^ Arlin, Marc (2021-04-06). "Je ne rêve que de vous (Canal +) : la poignante histoire vraie de Jeanne Blum, la dernière femme de Léon Blum". www.programme-tv.net (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  6. ^ Missika, Dominique (2009). Je vous promets de revenir : 1940-1945, le dernier combat de Léon Blum. Paris: R. Laffont. ISBN 978-2-221-10945-8. OCLC 319212484.
  7. ^ "Généalogie de Henri REICHENBACH". Geneanet (in French). Retrieved 2023-08-17.