France Bloch-Sérazin

France Bloch-Sérazin (born February 21, 1913 in Paris , † February 12, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a French resistance fighter of the Resistance , organized in the Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP). It was in the courtyard of the detention center Hamburg executed .

Life

education

France Bloch was the daughter of the writer Jean-Richard Bloch and Marguerite Herzog. She grew up near Poitiers and graduated from high school in Poitiers. She was a student of physics and chemistry at Paris University. From 1934 she worked in the laboratory of Professor Georges Urbain . Like her father, she supported the Spanish Republic and joined the Parti communiste français (PCF) in 1938 .

French resistance fighter

After the defeat of France in June 1940, she supported the militant resistance. In a laboratory in Paris she built bombs for groups of Francs-Tireurs et Partisans . In May 1942 she was arrested by the French police and sentenced to death on September 30, 1942 by the field war tribunal of the commandant of Greater Paris . On December 10, 1942, she was transported to the Lübeck-Lauerhof women's prison because, according to the French constitution, no women were allowed to be executed in France. On February 12, 1943, she was executed with the guillotine in the Hamburg remand prison.

Cemetery of honor

She was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. In 1950, her remains were transferred to the cemetery of honor of the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp .

Family fate

In 1939 she married the metallurgical engineer Frédo Sérazin, and in January 1940 her son Roland was born. Her husband Frédéric Sérazin, known as Frédo, was arrested as a member of the PCF, which had been banned since 1939, as early as February 1940, interned and murdered in 1944. With the murder of both parents, Roland Sérazin grew up as an orphan.

Commemorations and honors

Memorial Here + Now to commemorate the death sentences pronounced in Hamburg and those carried out in Hamburg

Memorial plaque on the back of the Hamburg remand prison

Memorial plaque, Hamburg, Wallanlagen: for those of the European resistance who were executed in the remand prison in Hamburg, Holstenglacis

A school in Poitiers (collège de la ville) is named after her.

A memorial plaque for the two French resistance fighters France Bloch-Sérazin and Suzanne Masson was inaugurated on the grounds of the Lübeck prison in 2014 . France Bloch-Sérazin was imprisoned here from December 1942 to February 1943, when she was executed by guillotine in the Hamburg correctional facility.

In the Hamburg ramparts, a plaque on the back wall of the Holstenglacis remand prison commemorates France Bloch-Serazin and Suzanne Masson, also a woman from the Resistance who was executed in Hamburg. The inscription reads:

France Bloch-Serazine

* February 21, 1913 † February 12, 1943

Suzanne Masson

* July 10, 1901 † November 1, 1943

"These two French women were beheaded with the guillotine in this prison because of their resistance to the National Socialist tyranny in occupied France."

- Inscription on the plaque at the Holstenglacis remand prison

The Hier + Jetzt memorial with the number 1933 on a gray concrete cuboid in front of a color picture of Hamburg and framed by flowerpots on iron steles is located in the green area in front of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . It commemorates the victims of the death sentences in the time of National Socialism by the judiciary in Hamburg and the execution of other convicts in the remand prison on Holstenglacis.

In the Poppenbüttel panel house , a permanent exhibition also reminds of France Bloch-Sérazin.

In the exhibition of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial from January 25, 2013 to February 15, 2013 in the hall of the Hamburg City Hall Deserters and other victims of Nazi military justice - the Wehrmacht jurisdiction in Hamburg was also honored with a depiction of France Bloch-Sérazin.

On December 4, 2008, a memorial plaque was placed on the building of the laboratory in Paris, Place du Danube in the 19th arrondissement, where France Bloch-Sérazin manufactured explosives.

Posthumously she was honored and awarded la légion d'honneur , la médaille de la résistance and la croix de guerre.

Movies

• France Bloch-Sérazin. On the trail of a courageous woman. Script Hans and Gerda Zorn , director Loretta Walz. 80 minutes, Germany 1993.
• (fr) France Bloch et Fredo Serazin , film by Marie Cristiani, MCD prod / FR3 Corse, 2005.

See also

• Resistance to National Socialism
• Women in the Resistance
• Hamburg memorials for the victims of National Socialism

literature

• Hans Zorn (Ed.): France Bloch-Sérazin. Stations in the life of a French resistance fighter , Konkret Literatur Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-922144-60-8 .

Web links

Commons : France Bloch-Sérazin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The French resistance fighter France Bloch-Sérazin , accessed on February 22, 2010.
• Commemorative plaque in Paris below her laboratory and film by Loretta Walz
• Memorial plaques in the ramparts , accessed on February 21, 2010.
• (fr) Last letter from France Bloch-Sérazin from the prison in Hamburg, where she was guillotined. The letter was kept and delivered by the prison guard.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (fr) Présences féminines juives en France XIXè-XXè siècles. Bloch France épouse Serazin 1913–1943 (translated into German: France Bloch, a Jewish woman) ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Jean-Michel Gouin: France Bloch-Sérazin bientôt honorée par la ville. En: La Nouvelle République du 30 janvier 2013 (content translated into German: Poitiers honors France Bloch-Sérazin)
3. ↑ (fr) Mémoire et Espoirs de la Résistance ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 22, 2010 
4. ↑ Source: Exhibition of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial from January 25, 2013 to February 15, 2013 in the hall of the Hamburg City Hall Deserters and other victims of Nazi military justice - the Wehrmacht jurisdiction in Hamburg . Here France Bloch-Sérazin is also honored with a representation.
5. ^ Jean-Michel Gouin: France Bloch-Sérazin bientôt honorée par la ville. En: La Nouvelle République du 30 janvier 2013
6. ↑ Commemoration of executed prisoners. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of November 12, 2014, p. 13. Author abbreviation km.
7. ^ Board of remand prison Holstenglacis honor board
8. ↑ Memorial Here + Now - the victims of National Socialist justice in Hamburg. , accessed January 31, 2014
9. ^ Commemorative plaque in Paris below her laboratory and a film by Loretta Walz
10. ^ Commemorative plaque in Paris below her laboratory and a film by Loretta Walz
11. ↑ (fr) Mémoire et Espoirs de la Résistance ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 22, 2010 
12. ^ Commemorative plaque in Paris below her laboratory and a film by Loretta Walz
13. ↑ (fr) Jean-Michel Gouin: France Bloch-Sérazin bientôt honorée par la ville. En: La Nouvelle République du 30 janvier 2013