France inters Jewish historian executed by the Gestapo in Panthéon

(JNS) — The nation of France honored historian Marc Bloch on Tuesday with interment in the Panthéon in Paris in a ceremony led by French President Emmanuel Macron.

A French Jewish academic, who helped found the Annales school of historiography, Bloch is perhaps best remembered today for his wartime heroism as a member of the French Resistance whom the Nazis captured, tortured and executed in 1944.

Caskets for Bloch and his wife containing the historian’s medals and photographs of the couple were buried with military honors in the presence of his living descendants at the secular mausoleum rese...