Victor Martin: un résistant sorti de l'oubliReports on the mission of Martin, a non-Jewish Belgian professor who was sent by the Comité de Défense des Juifs en Belgique to disclose the fate of deported Belgian Jews. Under cover of academic consultations on behalf of sociological research, he obtained permission to travel to Berlin and Breslau between 4-20 February 1943. From there he went on to Katowice and Sosnowiec, where he met hospitalized Belgian Jews who informed him that among the Belgian Jews who had arrived at Auschwitz, some did forced labor, but the women, the children, and the elderly were murdered on arrival. The town of Sosnowiec, where 60,000 Jews lived before the war, was transformed into a ghetto, which was emptied of two-thirds of its residents in winter 1943. From French workers in the area of Auschwitz, Martin heard that the crematoria there were functioning non-stop. Upon his return to Breslau he was denounced, arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of espionage, and imprisoned. He escaped in May 1943, returned to Belgium, and delivered his report, but had to live on false papers. The CDJ press immediately published the news of the extermination of 6,000 Jews per day in Auschwitz. |
Contents
Prologue | 9 |
Chapitre I Une résistance vigilante | 15 |
Malines Breendonck | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Allemagne Allemands août arrêté Auschwitz Birkenau Breendonck Breslau Bruxelles camarades Camille Dauchot camions camp d'Auschwitz camp d'extermination camps de concentration chambres à gaz Charleroi Chassagneux à l'auteur clandestin Comité de défense communauté juive concentrationnaire contact convois Croix-Rouge début défense des Juifs déportation des Juifs déportés juifs détenus dossier dredi 22 septembre Editions enfants femmes fours crématoires Front de l'Indépendance génocide Gestapo Ghert Jospa groupe Haute-Silésie Hitler hommes illé J'ai connu l'extermination Jean-Claude Favez jour Juifs à Auschwitz Juifs d'Europe Juifs de Belgique Juifs déportés juillet juin Katowice l'extermination des Juifs Langbein Léon Papeleux libération Lucien Steinberg Malines Maurice Heiber Maxime Steinberg ment mission Martin mort nationale nazis passer père Chassagneux Perry Broad personnes Pierre Laval politiques polonais Primo Levi prison pyjamas Radwitz rafles rapport Martin rapport Victor Martin Raul Hilberg Reich Ruckerl septembre 1944 Serge Klarsfeld service Sosnowiec tion train travail travailleurs Treblinka Vichy victimes Victor Martin Vught wagons Yad Vashem