Monaco home and held in the Drancy deportation camp outside the French capital before being transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was later killed. Blum's colleague Raoul Gunsbourg, the director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, helped by the French Resistance, escaped arrest and fled to Switzerland. In August 1944, the Germans executed René Borghini, Joseph-Henri Lajoux and Esther Poggio, who were Resistance leaders. Rainier III, who ruled until 2005, succeeded to the throne following the death of his grandfather, Prince Louis II, in 1949. On 19 April 1956, Prince Rainier married the American actress Grace Kelly; the event was
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the ethical requirements that any organization of public interest managing capital flow has to fulfil. It is entrusted with: The Development Committee helps to raise the financial resources necessary to develop the Foundation’s action programme and to ensure its sustainability. It is entrusted with organising and managing an international fundraising network. Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation The Prince Albert II Foundation (Official name: Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco ) is a Monaco-based charity which has donated millions in various environmental projects. The Foundation was initially created in 2006 by Prince Albert II of Monaco and it concentrates