Jean-Pierre Renouard
Jean-Pierre Renouard (born July 9, 1922 in Paris ; † June 30, 2014 there ) was a political prisoner during the Nazi era and a survivor of the Neuengamme , Misburg and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps , who wrote his memories in 1993 in the work Un Uniform rayé d'Enfer ( Hell Striped ) published.
life and work
At the beginning of the Second World War , Renouard and his family fled to southern France to avoid the German occupation of Paris. His father, Pierre Renouard, was appointed prefect of the Tarn department in southern France in 1940. In Albi , the capital of the department , Jean-Pierre Renouard and his younger brother Jacques (1924–1944) were active underground. After the German occupation of the zone non-occupée, the Renouard brothers continued their resistance work in the Bordeaux area. There Jean-Pierre and Jacques Renouard were arrested on May 16, 1944 for denouncing them and initially brought to Neuengamme. From there, Jean-Pierre Renouard came to the Neuengammer subcamp Misburg near Hanover in order to clear debris in the area of the Deurag-Nerag oil refinery and to carry out reconstruction work. A few days before the end of the war he was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where he was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.
From 1951 to 1953 Renouard studied business administration in the USA at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York) . He then worked in the oil industry for 40 years and ended his career as CEO of the French Copechim Group. After that he did volunteer work for several umbrella organizations of French resistance organizations.
In his work, Renouard describes the events of his life in short episodes that are arranged chronologically. He does not give a general overview of the time of his imprisonment but rather his personal experiences. The reports concentrate to a large extent on his time in the Misburg subcamp between July 1944 and April 1945, when he and other international prisoners were obliged to do labor. The book was translated into several languages, for example in 1993 and 2012 under the English title My stripes were earned in hell or in 2001 in Chinese as Dai tiao wen de di yu qiu fu .
Awards
- Renouard was commander of the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance in 1946.
- He received the Croix de guerre and other French orders of merit.
- For the publication of his memoirs he received a prize from the Académie française in 1993 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Pierre Renouard in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Fröbe: Biographical note. In: Hell Striped. P. 175 (= Bergen-Belsen Schriften. Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, Hanover 1998); expanded and improved book trade edition : Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-933-24042-5 .
- ↑ Ingrid Schupetta: Review - The hell striped on hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de, accessed on February 28, 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ My stripes were earned in hell on examiner.com, accessed February 28, 2014.
- ↑ Dai tiao wen de di yu qiu fu on worldcat.org, accessed on February 28, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Renouard, Jean-Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French concentration camp survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris |