Blanche Le Bris: key obituary facts
Is Blanche Le Bris dead? Yes. Blanche Le Bris died on November 7, 2026, at age 106.
Cause of death: Blanche Le Bris's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Blanche Le Bris known for?
Blanche Le Bris was a Bookseller.
More about Blanche Le Bris
Born: Blyma Menner25 September 1920Poland.
Occupation: Bookseller.
Blanche Le Bris, a French bookseller and Holocaust survivor, died on November 7, 2026, aged 106.
Born Blyma Menner in Poland on September 25, 1920, she was the daughter of Adolf and Rosa Menner, Polish Jews. In 1922, amid antisemitism and pogroms in Poland, the family moved to France and settled in Brest, where her parents opened a leatherworks shop.
French authorities required her to take a French name, and she became known as Blanche. The change marked a new identity in the country where the family had made its home, though she was born and raised in a Polish Jewish family. In 1941, she married Pierre Le Bris in Quimper. She converted to Catholicism one week before the Vichy regime banned marriages between people of different faiths. On the night of October 9, 1942, German authorities arrested her parents; Blanche narrowly escaped arrest. Adolf and Rosa Menner were deported to Auschwitz and never returned. In the wake of their arrest and deportation, Blanche and Pierre entrusted the care of their daughter, Jacqueline, to a couple. The family’s story was shaped by displacement, a change of name and faith, and the separation caused by the arrest of her parents during the Holocaust.