Tribute to Hubert Cain

Hubert Cain died on December 29, 2019 in Paris at the age of 90. He was buried at the cemetery of Montmartre on Friday, January 3 in the presence of his family, his relatives, among them Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, as well as employees and representatives of the Memorial’s Board of Directors, notably François Heilbronnvice-president of the Memorial and the director of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Philippe Allouche.

Former mining engineer, honorary director of Snecma, Hubert Cain engaged with his wife Larissa around Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in the 1970s, even before the creation of the sons and daughters of the Jewish deportees from France. From the 1990s he invests in the Memorial alongside Serge Klarsfeld. In 1992, at the initiative of the latter and Jean Corcos, he contributed to designing and traveling the retrospective exhibition "le temps des Rafles" in partnership with the Memorial and the CDJC, inaugurated on 27 March 1992 at the Paris City Hall by Jacques Chirac, for the 50th anniversary of the departure of the first deportation convoy from France in 1942. Deputy Secretary General of the Memorial and then Treasurer, Hubert Cain has accompanied with rigor, professionalism, determination, dedication, availability and modesty the evolution of the Memorial for 30 years.

Always positive and enthusiastic, Hubert Cain was also warm and very human in his relationships with others

The Memorial and its president, Éric de Rothschild, offer their most sincere condolences to his wife, Larissa, his children and his family. They pay tribute to the memory of this activist of Memory without whom the Memorial would not be what it is today.

Hubert Cain and his wife Larissa at the Shoah Memorial in 2015, credit Jean Marc Lebaz