Jean Bernard (priest)

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Jean Bernard (born August 13, 1907 in Luxembourg ; † September 1, 1994 ibid) was a Luxembourg priest , on whose authentic report from pastor block 25487 from the Dachau concentration camp the film “ The Ninth Day ” by Volker Schlöndorff is based.

Life

Jean Bernard was born in 1907 as the sixth of ten children of a wealthy Luxembourg merchant family. He studied theology and philosophy at the University of Leuven and at the Luxembourg seminary and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1933. From 1934 he headed the international secretariat of the Catholic Association of Filmmakers ( French Organization Catholique Internationale du Cinéma , OCIC) in Brussels . After the Gestapo closed the Catholic film office in June 1940 , he organized the return of Luxembourg families who had fled to France from the German troops.

Shortly afterwards, on January 6, 1941, he was arrested as a representative of the Luxembourg Catholic resistance against the German occupation and, after imprisonment in Luxembourg and Trier, deported to the Dachau concentration camp for 18 months. Presumably through the efforts of his brother in influential positions in the German occupation in Paris , he was initially released on vacation and finally on August 5, 1942 from the Dachau concentration camp. After his release, he wrote about his experiences in the camp in the book Pfarrerblock 25487 , which describes the suffering of the prisoners under the SS henchmen .

After the war, Bernard was appointed monsignor to various high positions in the Catholic Church in Luxembourg and received numerous awards and honorary degrees. He died on September 1, 1994.

Fonts

  • L'homme primitif à la lumière de l'ethnologie moderne, 1937 (French; in German: The primitive man in the light of modern ethnology )
  • Pfarrerblock 25487 , autobiographical report in diary form, first published in 1945 as a feature series in the Luxemburger Wort and Editions Saint Paul, Luxemburg 2004, 208 pages. ISBN 2-87963-286-2 , previously with other publishers, e.g. B. Anton Pustet Verlag, Munich 1962, as well as pastors' block Dachau 1941,1942, Berchmans, Munich 1984

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ SIGNIS célèbre à Louvain 90 ans de liens entre les communicateurs catholiques , accessed on December 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg clergyman and author, resistance against NS
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg City
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1994
Place of death Luxembourg City