Father Roger Riebert was the priest of the Church of St. Martin in Troyes, the capital of the département of Aube, and was popular and widely respected. In a roundup of Jews in Troyes on January 20, 1944, the Salomon family was warned by French friends who noticed that gendarmes had taken up positions around the apartment of a close relative of theirs whose husband had already been deported. The Salomons, a couple with a sixteen-year-old son, Jean, initially fled to acquaintances, who were afraid to take them in. Other friends, the Dulabours, referred them to Riebert, who assumed the responsibility of hiding and saving them. Riebert sent Jean to an isolated farm near Troyes owned by Paul Derisson and accommodated the parents in his own home. He knew, however, that a safer hiding place had to be found. His home bustled with people, any one of whom might be an informer. With the help of the Salomons’ cousin, Riebert provided the Salomons with forged transit permits bearing German stamps. He then arranged work for M. Salomon in a shipyard and Mme Salomon as a maid in the home of a colleague in the priesthood. Several weeks later, he was able to reunite Jean with his mother. The Salomons were grateful to Father Riebert and remained close friends with him until his death in 1984.
On October 4, 1989, Yad Vashem recognized Father Roger Riebert as Righteous Among the Nations.