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'''Alfred Serge Balachowsky''' (15 August 1901 |
'''Alfred Serge Balachowsky''' (15 August 1901 – 1983) was a French [[entomologist]] born in Russia. He specialised in [[Homoptera]] : [[Coccoidea]] but also worked on [[Coleoptera]]. Balachowsky worked at the [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]]. In 1948 he was elected president of the [[Société entomologique de France]].<br /> |
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Balachowsky was part of the [[SOE F Section networks|Prosper Network]] in Paris during WWII, a spy network run by the British SOE. After the network was infiltrated and betrayed, Balachowsky was arrested and ultimately imprisoned at the [[Buchenwald Concentration Camp]] outside Weimar, Germany. Sent to [[Camp Dora]] on February 1st 1944, he was brought back to Buchenwald May 1st of the same year to work developing a vaccine for [[typhus]]. He also went to work helping the various [[Buchenwald Resistance|underground groups]] inside the camp and established a network of contacts who fed him information from the camp's commanders. Along with [[Eugen Kogon]], Balachowsky was instrumental in the survival of several [[Special Operations Executive|British SOE]] officers who were among a group sent to Buchenwald for execution. Most of the group were murdered there, but several, most notably [[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Edward Yeo-Thomas]], [[Harry Peulevé]] and [[Stéphane Hessel]], escaped through the help of Balachowsky and his staff who helped them impersonate typhus patients in their test group. It is also believed that Balachowsky had a hand in getting [[KLB Club|168 Allied airmen]] including [[Phil Lamason]] imprisoned in Buchenwald out of the camp and into the hands of the German [[Luftwaffe]] just days before they were set to be executed. |
Balachowsky was part of the [[SOE F Section networks|Prosper Network]] in Paris during WWII, a spy network run by the British SOE. After the network was infiltrated and betrayed, Balachowsky was arrested and ultimately imprisoned at the [[Buchenwald Concentration Camp]] outside Weimar, Germany. Sent to [[Camp Dora]] on February 1st 1944, he was brought back to Buchenwald May 1st of the same year to work developing a vaccine for [[typhus]]. He also went to work helping the various [[Buchenwald Resistance|underground groups]] inside the camp and established a network of contacts who fed him information from the camp's commanders. Along with [[Eugen Kogon]], Balachowsky was instrumental in the survival of several [[Special Operations Executive|British SOE]] officers who were among a group sent to Buchenwald for execution. Most of the group were murdered there, but several, most notably [[F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas|Edward Yeo-Thomas]], [[Harry Peulevé]] and [[Stéphane Hessel]], escaped through the help of Balachowsky and his staff who helped them impersonate typhus patients in their test group. It is also believed that Balachowsky had a hand in getting [[KLB Club|168 Allied airmen]] including [[Phil Lamason]] imprisoned in Buchenwald out of the camp and into the hands of the German [[Luftwaffe]] just days before they were set to be executed. |
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* [[Robert Benoist]] |
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* [[Christopher Burney]] |
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Revision as of 15:29, 28 May 2013
Alfred Serge Balachowsky (15 August 1901 – 1983) was a French entomologist born in Russia. He specialised in Homoptera : Coccoidea but also worked on Coleoptera. Balachowsky worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. In 1948 he was elected president of the Société entomologique de France.
Balachowsky was part of the Prosper Network in Paris during WWII, a spy network run by the British SOE. After the network was infiltrated and betrayed, Balachowsky was arrested and ultimately imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp outside Weimar, Germany. Sent to Camp Dora on February 1st 1944, he was brought back to Buchenwald May 1st of the same year to work developing a vaccine for typhus. He also went to work helping the various underground groups inside the camp and established a network of contacts who fed him information from the camp's commanders. Along with Eugen Kogon, Balachowsky was instrumental in the survival of several British SOE officers who were among a group sent to Buchenwald for execution. Most of the group were murdered there, but several, most notably Edward Yeo-Thomas, Harry Peulevé and Stéphane Hessel, escaped through the help of Balachowsky and his staff who helped them impersonate typhus patients in their test group. It is also believed that Balachowsky had a hand in getting 168 Allied airmen including Phil Lamason imprisoned in Buchenwald out of the camp and into the hands of the German Luftwaffe just days before they were set to be executed.
After the war, Balachowsky testified at the Nuremberg Trials.
See also
Works
Partial list
- Étude biologique des coccidies du bassin occidental de la Méditerranée (1932). PhD. thesis
- With Louis Mesnil Les insectes nuisibles aux plantes cultivées. Leurs moeurs. Leur destruction. Traité d’entomologie agricole concernant la France, la Corse, l’Afrique du Nord et les régions limitrophes. Tom 1. 1137 pp. Paris
- Faune de France, Volume 50: Coléoptères Scolytides 320 pages, 300 b/w line illus. (1949)
- Entomologie appliquée a l`agriculture. Traité. Tome I. Coléoptères. Maison et Cie Éditeurs, Paris, 1391 pp. (1963)
External links
- Pasteur Institute Biography
- Australian Faunal Directory Partial list of publications on Coccoidea
- [1] Story on Balachowsky's involvement with Prosper Network in Paris
- [2] Video of Balachowsky testifying at Nuremberg
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