Editing Max Jacob (section)

==Death==
Having moved outside Paris in May 1936, to settle in [[Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire]], Loiret, Max Jacob was arrested on 24 February 1944 by the [[Gestapo]], and interned at [[Orléans]] prison (prisoner #15872).<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.max-jacob.com/collections.html |title = Les Collections}}</ref> [[Jew]]ish by birth, Jacob's brother Gaston had been previously arrested in January 1944, and deported to the concentration camp [[Auschwitz]] along with their sister Myrthe-Lea; her husband was also deported by the [[Nazis]] at this time. A cousin, [[Andrée Jacob]], survived by living under an assumed name and worked in the Resistance movement [[Noyautage des administrations publiques]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Marie-Jo Bonnet raconte les résistantes oubliées |date=February 2013 |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/le-mans-72000/marie-jo-bonnet-raconte-les-resistantes-oubliees-777162}}</ref> Following his incarceration at Orléans, Max was then transferred to [[Drancy internment camp]] from where he was to be transported in the next convoy to Auschwitz. However, said to be suffering from bronchial pneumonia, Max Jacob died on 5 March in the infirmary of La Cité de la Muette, a former housing block which served as the internment camp known as Drancy.<ref name="Caws">{{cite book |last= Caws |first= Mary Ann |author-link= Mary Ann Caws |title= Yale Anthology of 20th-century French Poetry |chapter= Max Jacob 1876–1944 |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YCPUYc-AygYC&q=%22Max+Jacob%22+died&pg=PA47 |year= 2004 |publisher= [[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-10010-5 |page=47}}</ref>

First interred in [[Ivry-sur-Seine|Ivry]] after the war ended, his remains were transferred in 1949 by his artist friends [[Jean Cassou]] and [[René Iché]] (who sculpted the tomb of the poet) to the cemetery at [[Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire]] in the [[Loiret]] [[département]].<ref name=":0" />