Remy Dumoncel
Rémy Dumoncel (born October 28, 1888 in Romorantin , † March 15, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg-Neuengamme ) was a French publisher and mayor of the city of Avon (Seine-et-Marne) .
Life
After studying law in Paris , he married the daughter of the owner of the Tallandier publishing house in Paris, Germaine Tallandier , with whom he had five children.
After initially also working as a publisher, in 1935 he became mayor of the city of Avon (Seine-et-Marne), a small town south of Paris that borders directly on Fontainebleau . When the city was captured by National Socialist occupation troops on June 16, 1940, Rémy Dumoncel joined the Resistance . He gave financial support to writers who could no longer publish works in Nazi-occupied France, and also hid Alsatian Jews in the Dordogne department , where he owned a house. In his capacity as mayor, he issued false identity documents to Jews and other refugees and thus helped them to flee to unoccupied parts of France.
On May 4, 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo at the Fontainebleau-Avon train station and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died of exhaustion shortly before the end of Nazi rule.
Honors
In 1985 he was honored as " Righteous Among the Nations " in Yad Vashem .
In his honor a street was named after Rémy Dumoncel both in Avon and in Paris in the 14th arrondissement .
literature
- Biography of Rémy Dumoncel at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC , accessed October 31, 2009
- Brief history of the Tallandier publishing house (French) ( Memento of February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rémy Dumoncel on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dumoncel, Remy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mayor and victim of National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Romorantin-Lanthenay |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Neuengamme concentration camp |