Marcel Verfaillie
Marcel Verfaillie (born August 11, 1911 in Roubaix ; † March 16, 1945 in the Ganacker satellite camp ) was a French communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism in World War II . Posthumously on February 12, 1956, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government . In Tourcoing a street and in the twin city was Muehlhausen / Thuringia on August 5, 1965, a Allee after Marcel Verfaillie named. There is also a memorial stone made of red granite that commemorates him .
Marcel Verfaillie was a worker at the CIMA tractor factory in Tourcoing , where the Verfaillie family moved shortly after Marcel's birth. In 1934 he joined the PCF ( Parti communiste français ). During the Second World War, he rescued numerous wounded from the battlefield as a medic and was honored for this. After a year in German captivity , he went back to Tourcoing, joined the Resistance and initially agitated as editor of the combat paper "journal enchainé". As a result, he got on the wanted list of the Gestapo and went underground. As the "Commandant Guy", leader of a resistance group, he disrupted the military supplies in the Sambre valley. He was captured by treason. Via the detour of several Gestapo prisons, he was interned in the Ganacker subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and murdered before the American troops arrived.
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives of the Flossenbürg Memorial
literature
- Michael Fiegle: Who was Marcel Verfaille? In: MOMENT. The culture magazine from the middle of Germany, 03/2007, pp. 7–8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verfaillie, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roubaix |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1945 |
| Place of death | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp ( Upper Palatinate ) |