Ludwik Peretz

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Ludwik Janusz Peretz (9 January 1923 – 1 December 2022) was a Polish-born French architect. He was born in Warsaw and studied at the Warsaw University of Technology. He served in the Polish Home Army during World War II and was a prisoner of war from 1944 to 1945. After the war, he moved to France and studied at the École des beaux-arts de Lille with Marcel Favier, Robert Clément and André Lys, graduating in 1955. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1966. Peretz worked as an architect in Roubaix and Lille, mainly designing churches. He died in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France, on 1 December 2022 at the age of 99.