19-year-old Robert Babaz lived with his parents in Lyon. His father René was a member of the Alliance military intelligence service. Robert Babaz also joined Alliance at the beginning of 1943. Robert Babaz and his father forged official stamps, identity papers, and other documents for the network. These were distributed to resistance fighters and people in hiding, including Jews. One of Robert Babaz’s responsibilities was making rubber stamp plates. In September 1943 Alliance sent him and his father to Paris, where they continued working as forgers.
Robert Babaz was betrayed by a double agent and arrested in Paris on March 17, 1944. He was suspected of espionage and imprisoned in Fresnes prison, then transferred to Schirmeck detention camp in Alsace on May 19, 1944. Several months later, he was taken to the nearby Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and shot dead there during the night of September 1, 1944.
Robert Babaz received numerous posthumous honors from the French state for his resistance activities.