The Fighters of Liberation recounted that Jean-Claude Camors had pretended to be a fisherman in order to reach London. The BCRA had deemed him too tall and too recognizable, but he insisted and led a network. According to the account, the Gestapo arrested him on October 11, 1943. Wounded, he had run to get rid of what he was carrying before collapsing. At the age of 23, he was never seen again. https://t.co/nE3zpMSkA1 #Histoire #Résistance #SecondeGuerreMondiale (translated)
Liberation Fighters’ Words recounted that on October 10, 1943, Lucien Navarron fled after the café where he was located was surrounded and papers were demanded. The author described him as a determined man, heroic in 1940, and wrote that three bullets hit him without either his wounds or torture making him speak. He is said to have died on October 15, at the age of 30, without revealing his true name: André Aalberg. https://t.co/Al3Y09qlgb #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire (translated)
The words of the Liberation Combatants recounted the journey of Jeanne Alexandre, whose father had been killed on the front in 1914. According to the account, she had been a boarder with nuns and had started working at 14, before fully committing to the Resistance. Captured in 1942, she had heard her husband being tortured nearby. She had been told that the torture would stop if she spoke, but she revealed nothing. She died in Ravensbrück at the age of 30. https://t.co/X6pETv5YTk #Résistance #Histoire #Mémoire (translated)
The Fighters of the Liberation recounted that Paulette Besson, aged 23, had provided false papers to the Resistance without anyone at the prefecture of Savoie knowing. The report stated that she had been arrested and tortured at Montluc, and then her comrades had praised her generosity during deportation. On October 8, 1944, they defied the ban to lay flowers on her modest coffin. https://t.co/D1KUbZSOLK #Résistance #Histoire #Mémoire (translated)
The fighters of liberation wrote that Marie Bonnouvrier taught in a school located at 7, rue Saint-Ferdinand, in Paris, and lived at 37, where a Resistance hideout had been located since 1940. According to the report, the Gestapo had shown up there on April 9, 1944. Tortured, she revealed nothing, then, deported, refused to work and sabotaged the factory. She did not return. https://t.co/9slISl1M8c #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire (translated)
The Liberation Fighters' words reported that on October 6, 1943, in Fresnes, Jean Poiré, a metro employee presented as a saboteur and 29 years old, had entrusted his last wishes to his "little doll". He encouraged her to stay righteous and joyful, to love life, and to remember him. https://t.co/gr8JnyyV6u #Histoire #Mémoire #Résistance (translated)
Liberation Fighters' Statements described Jean Bouchez, aged 23, as a fighter who saved his men in 1940 despite a serious injury. The account added that he then disguised himself as a nurse to try to help his leader escape in the Resistance. According to his story, betrayed, Bouchez faced the firing squad on October 5, 1942. https://t.co/qFn9d5EkO4 #Histoire #Résistance #Héroïsme (translated)
The Combatants of Liberation recalled that at dawn on October 4, 1941, at the prison in Rennes, Father Coignard had come to wake Roger Barbé, presented as a pioneer of the Resistance who had escaped in 1940. According to the account, Barbé had told him that he was "happy to die for France." He had been shot at the age of 21. https://t.co/jEaqxcq04B #Résistance #Histoire #France (translated)
The Liberation Fighters' message wrote that Lucienne Hollingdale, a 47-year-old seamstress in Houplines, rescued downed Allied aviators by bicycle. The organization indicated that her network leader had warned her that she risked being arrested, beaten, and tortured, and that she had endured these trials, been sentenced to death three times, and deported. She described it as victorious. https://t.co/44KyrRRDse #Histoire #Résistance #Courage (translated)
1941. Arrested for painting "V", he is released: he is only 17 years old. After joining a franc corps, he is recaptured on April 25, 1943. "I am starving," he writes. "I have endured everything, but I have never revealed anything. See you soon. Long live France." Jean Rimbert. Shot on October 2. https://t.co/JviIDCEuO9 #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire (translated)
Auschwitz has already killed its mother and will soon kill its father. His two brothers were shot in 1942. His last family: the FTP-MOI. On October 1, 1943, the Germans tied the youngest victim of Mont-Valérien to the execution post. André Engros was 16 years old. https://t.co/eoYXDWOwCv #Histoire #Mémoire #Shoah (translated)
September 30, 1941. Lille. A bank employee, one of the first to stand up, is going to be executed. "Courage, Mom, Dad, my duty will not have been in vain, France will live [...] That the little ones do not see war anymore, that is what I ask. Thousand kisses." Germain Lepoivre. 21 years old. https://t.co/ES7Hpw8j1d #Histoire #Mémoire #Courage (translated)
Mars 1944. Lyon. Des jours durant, il la torture, faisant même amener son mari et son fils de 16 ans. Elle se tait, tous sont déportés. Elle seule reviendra. Mais Lise Lesèvre aura assez de forces pour vivre jusqu'en 1987 et aller dire au procès le monstre que fut Klaus Barbie. https://t.co/oFiIowDmve #Histoire #Mémoire #Résistance
Valmondois. Une famille d'artistes. La gaieté, l'ingénuité... Que craindre de cette Française de 20 ans ? A part le fait qu'elle aide les aviateurs alliés à se cacher. Puis que, traquée, elle gagne la Normandie pour saboter routes et ponts ? Rien. Marie-France Geoffroy-Dechaume. https://t.co/VNjeq3aeoa #Histoire #Artistes #Résistance
Dinan. Un hôtel singulier. Au restaurant, des Allemands. Aux étages, des aviateurs et des résistants. Aux uns, l'employée vole le plan des bunkers de la région. Aux autres, elle offre la liberté. Elle-même y perdra la sienne, mais elle échappera de peu aux camps. Suzanne Delcorte https://t.co/cma9o7s4UI #Dinan #histoire #résistance
26 sept.1943. Prison de Besançon. "Mes chers Parents, écrit un FTP.C’est au milieu de la nuit que j’apprends que je vais être exécuté. J’aurai le courage nécessaire. J’ai communié hier soir et je vous dis : rassurez-vous, nous nous retrouverons au Paradis". René Paillard. 18 ans. https://t.co/ATqiFeg1IG #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire
Sept. 1943. Paris. La Gestapo. 5 jours et 5 nuits de tortures. Mais Jacqueline Péry d'Alincourt, 24 ans, ne dit rien de tout ce qu'elle faisait avec Daniel Cordier. Elle survivra à Ravensbrück et respectera la supplique d'une camarade emmenée à la mort : "Dites-le au monde !" https://t.co/cg1YFR58qh #Histoire #Résistance #Mémoire
24 sept. 1943. Paris. Arrêté. Un mécano, 22 ans, sans histoire... En fait un rouage essentiel de la Résistance, ex agent de liaison de Jean Moulin. Il sait tout, mais torturé, ne dira rien. Et revenu des camps, il sera encore un mécano. Mais qui a fait l’histoire. Hugues Limonti. https://t.co/s1kBTkz5a8 #Résistance #Histoire #Liberté
"Pauline". Sa tête a été mise à prix 1 million. Mais son courage n'a pas de prix. Parachutée par les services britanniques le 23 sept. 1943, elle est à 30 ans l'une des très rares femmes à diriger un maquis, dans l'Indre. Elle sera blessée, mais jamais prise. Pearl Witherington. https://t.co/Ijdf4aWS8d #Histoire #Résistance #Femme
22 sept. 1944. Haute-Saône. Il y a peu, il a revu ses parents pour la 1re fois depuis 4 ans, lui qui était à Londres dès juin 1940. Le Saint-cyrien a brillé en Libye et en Italie. Son village natal est tout près. Mais il ne le reverra que mort. Charles Rossignol est tué. 24 ans. https://t.co/kxlFxW9hcL #Histoire #SecondeGuerreMondiale #Mémoire
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