Hubert Cain died on 29 December 2019 in Paris at the age of 90. He was buried in 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 Heilbronn vice-presidentpresident of the Memorial and director of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Philippe Allouche.
Former mining engineer, honorary director of SNECMA, Hubert Cain joined his wife Larissa in a campaign 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 worked at the Memorial alongside Serge Klarsfeld. In 1992, at the initiative of the latter and Jean Corcos, he helped to design and travel the retrospective exhibition "le temps des Rafles" in partnership with the Memorial and the CDJC, inaugurated on 27 March 1992 at the City Hall of Paris 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 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 Eric de Rothschild offer his 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
