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Plaque commémorative

Plaque in homage to Michel Gaillard, an FFI (French Interior Forces) fighter. He was arrested and held at Montluc prison and then deported. The convoy he was on left Compiègne on April 27, 1944 and arrived at Auschwitz on April 30. In May 1944, he was transferred to Flossenburg, where he died at the age of 18 on February 25, 1945. Fewer than half of the 1650 men in the convoy ever saw France again.

Source: Livre Mémorial des déportés de France arrêtés par mesure de répression et dans certains cas par... Read more

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Address : 252 cours Lafayette , 69003 Lyon
GPS Coordinates : 45.763635 , 4.864703
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Plaque in homage to Michel Gaillard, an FFI (French Interior Forces) fighter. He was arrested and held at Montluc prison and then deported. The convoy he was on left Compiègne on April 27, 1944 and arrived at Auschwitz on April 30. In May 1944, he was transferred to Flossenburg, where he died at the age of 18 on February 25, 1945. Fewer than half of the 1650 men in the convoy ever saw France again.

Source: Livre Mémorial des déportés de France arrêtés par mesure de répression et dans certains cas par mesure de persécution 1940-1945, Editions Tirésias, 2004, Tome 2.

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