- Groupe du musée de l'Homme
The "Groupe du musée de l'Homme" (French: group of the museum of man) was a movement in the
French resistance to the Nazi occupation during the Second World War.In 1940 after the
Appeal of 18 June ofGeneral Charles de Gaulle , a resistance group was created byintellectual s andacademic led byAnatole Lewitsky andBoris Vildé along withPaul Hauet . They were joined by other groups in September.Raymond Burgard ,René Iché ,Claude Aveline ,Marcel Abraham ,Jean Cassou (who launched the newspaper "Résistance"),René-Yves Creston ,Germaine Tillion and her motherÉmilie Tillion were also part of the network.To avoid their meetings attracting the attention of the Germans and the French police, they set up a "literary society", "Les amis d'Alain-Fournier" (Friends of
Alain-Fournier ).Members of the group
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Marcel Abraham
*Jules Andrieu , shot in February 1942.
*Claude Aveline
*Pierre Brossolette , died in detention in 1944
*Raymond Burgard , beheaded in 1944
*Jean Cassou , launched the newspaper "Résistance"
*René-Yves Creston , ethnologist andBreton nationalist
*Colonel Paul Hauet, co-founder of the network, died during deportation
*Agnès Humbert , deported
*René Iché
*Georges Ithier , shot in February 1942.
*Jean Jaudel (1910-2006)
*Colonel de La Rochère
*Michel Leiris
*Anatole Lewitsky , shot in February 1942, adjunct to Vildé
*Léon Maurice Nordmann , shot in February 1942
*Yvonne Oddon
*René Sénéchal , shot in February 1942
*Emilie Tillion , died while being deported toRavensbrück in 1945
*Germaine Tillion , head of the adjunct network around Hauet with the rank of "commandant" from 1941 to 1942, deported to Ravensbrück
*Boris Vildé , co-founder and leader of the network, shot in February 1942
*Pierre Walter , shot in February 1942
*Therese de liniers
*Jean Blanzat Bibliography (French)
* AERI, "La Résistance en Ile de France", DVD-Rom, 2004 (fiches
Jean Cassou ,René Iché ,Germaine Tillion ).
* Martin Blumenson, "Le Réseau du Musée de l'Homme", Éditions Le Seuil, Paris, 1979.External links (French)
* [http://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/page/affichecitoyennete.php?idPage=10286&idCitoyen=18&idLang=fr Le musée de l'Homme on the site "Chemins de Mémoire"]
* [http://www.defense.gouv.fr/sga/content/download/46036/457830/file/n5_-_le_reseau_du_musee_de_lhomme_mc05.pdf L'histoire du réseau du musée de l'Homme]
* [http://www.vilde.fr/ Site du musée Boris Vildé]
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