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Obj. ID: 58651  Memorial plaque to rescuers of Jewish refugees in Le Brassus, Switzerland, 2003

© Fabienne Meyer, Photographer: Meyer, Fabienne, 2020

Name of Monument

No official name

What/Who is commemorated?

 Fred Reymond, Anne-Marie Piguet, Madeleine and Victoria Cordier, Adrien Goy. 

Description

The horizontal plaque with the French inscription is affixed to the interior wall. 

Inscription

In French:

Ici de septembre 1943 à mai 1944, quatorze femmes, enfants, adolescents, Israélites pour la plupart, traqués en France occupée, ont trouvé refuge grâce à Fred Reymond, Anne-Marie Piguet, Madeleine et Victoria Cordier et au gendarme Adrien Goy en poste au Brassus.

Translation: Here, from September 1943 to May 1944, fourteen women, children and teenagers, most of them Israelites, who were being hunted down in occupied France, found refuge thanks to Fred Reymond, Anne-Marie Piguet, Madeleine and Victoria Cordier and the gendarme Adrien Goy who was stationed in Le Brassus.

Commissioned by

Probably, the local authorities. 

Documenter
Fabienne Meyer | 2020
Author of description
Fabienne Meyer and Liza Schwartz | 2020, 2026
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Memorial plaque to rescuers of Jewish refugees in Le Brassus | Unknown
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August 21, 2003
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Switzerland | Vaud (Canton) | Le Brassus
| Le Brassus VD Forest hut "Hotel d'Italie" (former shelter)
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Meyer, Fabienne, "Verzeichnis der Shoah-Denkmäler in der Schweiz," in Erzählweisen des Sagbaren und Unsagbaren. Formen des Holocaust-Gedenkens in schweizerischen
und transnationalen Perspektiven, ed. Maoz Azaryahu et al., (Köln: Böhlau Verlag), 491-510
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