Claude Gutmann, born in Paris, France, 1914, known as Griffon; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Commander of the EIF (French Jewish Scouts); activities as the Sixieme (the Sixth) person responsible for the Lyons area; a member of the committee; extraction of 108 children and 500 adults from Venissieux by the committee (?); escape to Nice; arrest in Nice; deportation to Drancy, September 1943; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943; death on a death march. Also in the file: - Telegram regarding the capture of four Jews: Roger Appel, Jankiel Wajntrop, Germaine Meyer and Claude Gutmann and their deportation to Drancy; the telegram is signed by Muehler.