Silent Village : The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane (eBook)
384 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-9760-7 (ISBN)
ROBERT PIKE is a graduate of the University of Exeter in History and French. His fascination with the German occupation of France and the Vichy period led to him tracking down former Resistance members and trawling official archives and secondary histories in order to understand the Resistance from the ground up. His quest to tell the stories of the few that acted, and the many others whose actions still remain shrouded in mystery, begins with Defying Vichy.
'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike’s moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time.' - Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing HitlerOn 10 June 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armoured SS Panzer division. Six hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation’s worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is remembered as a ‘martyred village’ and its ruins are preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades. Silent Village gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. A lost way of life is vividly recollected in this unique insight into the traditions, loves and rivalries of a typical village in occupied France. Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Putting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, in this updated third edition Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate the tragedy as it truly happened – and give voice to the anguish of those left behind.
Cast
| Avril, Marie | Ran the Hôtel Avril after the death of her second husband. Her daughter, Marguerite Laurence, brought her husband Henri and their children to the village when Paris was occupied. |
| Avril, Michel | Wood merchant who also sold other fuels including petrol. |
| Bardet, Denise | Taught at the girls’ school and lived with her mother, Louise, and brother, Camille, in a nearby hamlet. |
| Beau, Joseph | Socialist mayor of the village from 1914 to 1941. |
| Beaubreuil, Martial | An escaped prisoner of war; he hid in the grocery store. |
| Beaubreuil, Maurice | Evaded obligatory work service (STO) by hiding in the Mercier store with his older brother. |
| Bélivier, Marcel | Son of a farmer in the hamlet of Les Brégères. |
| Bergmann, Joseph | Barber in the Café du Chêne. German and Jewish by birth, though most believed him to be Austrian. |
| Besson, Robert | Young veteran of the 1940 war whose family ran a textile shop. |
| Bielsa, Millán | Former medic; refugee from Spain sent as an inmate to the 643rd Groupe de Travailleurs Étrangers (GTE). |
| Binet, Andrée | Head of the girls’ school but absent in early 1944 due to a difficult pregnancy. |
| Biver, Gilberte | Refugee from Moselle; met Jean Henry, then a camp warden at the 643rd GTE, and moved with him to the Paris area. |
| Blum, Léon | Jewish politician; prime minister in the Popular Front (Front Populaire) government. Arrested by the Vichy authorities. |
| Bonnet, Madeleine | Ward of the state; worked as a live-in housemaid for Jeanne Mercier. |
| Borie, Mathieu | Builder from Limoges with a workshop in Oradour; part of a Resistance network. |
| Bouchoule, Léopold | One of the village’s bakers. |
| Brandy, Eugénie | Owner of the Café Central. Of her three daughters, Andrée worked at the tram station and Jeannine worked as a hairdresser and was married to mechanic Aimé Renaud. Youngest daughter Antoinette worked alongside her mother in the café and, like her mother, also sewed gloves. |
| Brissaud, Martial | Wheelwright who worked with his father on the western edge of the village. |
| Chapelle, Jean-Baptiste | Oradour’s long-serving priest. |
| Compain, Maurice | Pâtissier with a shop on the Champ de foire. |
| Coppenolle, Berthe and | Business partners from Roubaix who arrived as |
| Crombé, Jeanne | refugees with their families and moved into the La Lauze farm. |
| Coudert, Georges | Young police inspector based in Limoges. |
| Couty, Odette | Teacher brought in to replace Andrée Binet. |
| Couvidou, Germaine | Albert Valade’s sister; young mother of four who lived at the Valade tenant farm. |
| Dagoury, Mélanie | Owner of Le Restaurant de la Promenade and her late husband’s cement and masonry business. |
| Darnand, Joseph | Former soldier; created the Milice to combat the Resistance. |
| Darthout, Jean-Marcel | Part of the football team; aspired to be a teacher but had to find alternative work to avoid a call up to STO. His father, François, was a postal worker. |
| Denis, Léon | Wineseller, municipal councillor and leader of a musical society. |
| Desourteaux, André | Grandson of mayors Joseph Beau and Paul Desourteaux; son of grocers Emile and Alice. |
| Desourteaux, Hubert | Son of Paul; a mechanic with a garage on the main street. |
| Desourteaux, Paul | Former mayor; political opponent of Joseph Beau. Head of the special delegation, mayor in all but name, in 1944. |
| Doutre, Paul | Eldest of two brothers; hidden by his family when called up for STO in Germany. |
| Dupic, François and Jean | Brothers who each ran their own textile shop. |
| Filliol, Jean | Directeur général of the Deuxième service, the ‘action and information’ service – a kind of Gestapo of the French Milice. |
| Foussat, André | Miller from a nearby hamlet; served on the municipal council and ran the amateur dramatic society. |
| Freund-Valade, Marc | ‘Prefect’ of the Haute-Vienne from September 1943. |
| Gaudy, Yvonne | Teenage girl who sewed gloves for the Saint-Junien factories. |
| de Gaulle, Charles | Leader of the Free French who left for London in June 1940. |
| Godfrin, Roger | Arrived with his family after the Moselle was cleared of Franco-phone elements; 7 years old in June 1944. |
| Gougeon, Fernand | Teacher in Moselle; taught in the school for refugees. |
| Guingouin, Georges | Former teacher and one of the first men to take to the maquis. |
| Hébras, Robert | Son of Jean, a former employee of the tramway, and Marie, who sewed for extra money. Aspired to be a pâtissier but circumstances led to him becoming a mechanic in Limoges. He had three sisters, two older than him, one a decade his junior. |
| Henry, Jean | Music teacher who became a guard at the Oradour camp. Met his wife, a refugee from Moselle, in Oradour. |
| Hyvernaud, Fernand | Dealer in farm animals whose house and barns were next to the church. His daughter Henriette Joyeux had married and moved away but visited Oradour with husband Marcel and baby son René. |
| Jakobowicz, David | Son of Jewish immigrants who became involved with the maquis. |
| Jakobowicz, Sarah | Hidden by Martial Machefer when her brother David’s clandestine activities placed the family in danger. |
| Kanzler, Joseph | Jewish man who stayed in the village with his family when most of the Schiltigheim evacuees returned north to a nazified Strasbourg. |
| Lamaud, Marie and Jean | Looked after various pupilles de l’assistance publique (wards of the state) at their Bellevue farm. |
| Lang, Jules and Jeanne | Jewish couple who came to Oradour from Bordeaux. |
| Laval, Pierre | Former lawyer who became head of the government under Pétain. |
| de Lavérine, | Owner of several properties in... |
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Schlagworte | Caroline Moorehead • Charles de Gaulle • defying vichy • france in the second world war • france in ww2 • French history • French Resistance • Haute Vienne • History of France • martyred village • massacre • Nazi occupation • nazi war crime|nazi massacre • occupied france • Oradour • oradour, oradour sur glane, massacre, haute vienne, occupied france, france in the second world war, france in ww2, nazi occupation, charles de gaulle, ww2 massacre, caroline moorehead, village of secrets, robert gildea, french resistance, history of france, french history, nazi war crime • oradour sur glane • robert gildea • Vichy France • village of secrets • wartime atrocity • wartime massacre • ww2 massacre |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7509-9760-5 / 0750997605 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7509-9760-7 / 9780750997607 |
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