Square Jean Pierre Gratzer

Square Jean Pierre Gratzer sits tucked between apartment blocks, marked by a low stone wall and a dense canopy of trees that stay green well into autumn. It serves as a pocket of quiet for the neighborhood, but its name marks a sharp memory. Jean Pierre Gratzer was a local resident who died in the nineteen forty-four liberation of Paris. A stone plaque near the main gate records his death during those final, chaotic days of the German occupation, naming the street he lost his life on.