Jean Dolidier

Neuengamme concentration camp 1945

Jean-Dolidier-Weg in Neuengamme

Jean-Aimé Dolidier (born April 30, 1906 , † 1971 ) was a French trade unionist and surviving inmate of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg .

Life

Dolidier was a resistance fighter in the French Resistance captured 1,943th He was imprisoned in the citadel of Sisteron in December 1943 and in the Voves prison camp in January 1944 before he was deported to Neuengamme concentration camp.

He was a founding member and president of the Amicale Internationale de Neuengamme . The Amicales were prisoners ' associations that formed a committee under the name of the respective concentration camp in many places from 1945 onwards. Dolidier was also a member of the memorial commission, which initiated the erection of the first memorial column in 1953 and thus laid the foundation stone for the later Neuengamme concentration camp memorial . It was placed on the site of the former camp nursery, on which the SS had the ashes of those burned in the crematorium scattered as fertilizer.

Honors

A community health center has been named after him in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine , France , since 1971. The street Jean-Dolidier-Weg in Neuengamme has been named in his honor since 1986. It was formerly called Neuengammer Heerweg and was the access road to the former concentration camp and today's Neuengamme concentration camp memorial.

Individual evidence

↑ see there page 4 eysses.fr ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2008 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. (PDF; 2.0 MB) @1@ 2

↑ Commemoration of the victims of fascism - plaque commemorates the death of Russian prisoners of war - Hamburger Abendblatt dated November 24, 1986 ( Memento dated July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME	Dolidier, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dolidier, Jean Aimé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French concentration camp prisoner and president of the Amicale Internationale de Neuengamme
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1906
DATE OF DEATH	1971

[1] see there page 4 eysses.fr ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2008 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. (PDF; 2.0 MB) @1@ 2

[2] Commemoration of the victims of fascism - plaque commemorates the death of Russian prisoners of war - Hamburger Abendblatt dated November 24, 1986 ( Memento dated July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )