Ruben SOBOL is a Parisian photographer active from 1914 to 1940, particularly famous for his high society and the stage world photographs. Born in Grodno (Russia Empire), January 30, 1889,of Jewish origin. Ruben (Rubin) SOBOL emigrated to Paris at the age of 22. He began by working for the photographer Paul Victor LACROTTE (1874-1925) known as Paul DARBY, whose clientele was made up, in part, of actors, soldiers and polytechnicians. He established himself on his own around 1914 and from 1917, he produced portraits of American soldiers in his photographic studio at 42 rue du Dragon, in Paris. In 1918, SOBOL transferred his photographic studio to 18 boulevard Montmartre where he specializes in portraying personalities from the world of entertainment: Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, the Dolly Sisters, Lucienne Boyer. The Sobol studio shoots on the main Parisian stages: Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, Palace ... It also takes many fashion photographs and is present on several film shoots. Sobol studio collaborates with numerous daily newspapers or magazines, in France or abroad. His studio was liquidated in 1933 but SOBOL as worked as an artisan photographer at various addresses (In 1936, at 32 avenue de Matignon, before settling in 69 Faubourg-Saint-Honoré. Then he set up his studio at 3 rue de Monceau from April 1, 1938. During this time, SOBOL was a portraitist for all artistic Paris. At the begening of the Second World War, under the Occupation, Ruben SOBOL was directly affected by the racial laws put in place by the Vichy regime. In June 1940, he was forced into exile in Cannes. At the end of 1943, he returned to Paris and found refuge at 20 rue Chappe, in Montmartre. SOBOL was arrested on Place Blanche on March 17, 1944, during a roundup. He was interned in Drancy on March 19, deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp (in Oświęcim, in Poland) on March 27. Ruben SOBOL was officially declared dead there on April 1 at the age of 55.