Guy-Pierre Gautier
Guy-Pierre Gautier (* 1925 in La Rochelle , France ) is a French Resistance fighter and Dachau survivor.
Life
Guy-Pierre Gautier joined the Resistance as a youth in 1941 and organized the first propaganda campaigns. In April 1943 he became a member of the "Liberté" department of Francs-Tireur et partisans (FTP), which was active on the French Atlantic coast in the Charente-Maritime department . At the end of 1943, arrests, interrogations, torture and internment in the Eysses collective prison followed. After an uprising in Eysses, he was deported to Dachau in June 1944, where he arrived on June 21, 1944. He experienced the liberation of the camp on April 29, 1945 by the 42nd Infantry Division "Rainbow" of the US armed forces, went back to France, where he married and had several children and grandchildren. Together with his grandson, comic artist Tiburce Oger, he published his testimony in 2015 as a graphic novel under the title "Ma Guerre - De la Rochelle à Dachau".
plant
- Ma Guerre - De la Rochelle à Dachau , Graphic Novel, Rue de Sèvres, Paris 2015.
Translation into German: "Survival in Dachau", Bahoe Books, Vienna 2020.
Awards
- 2015: Légion d'honneur
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gautier, Guy-Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French resistance fighter and Dachau survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Rochelle , France |