ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE : VISION D'ÉPOUVANTE / Guy Pauchou, Pierre Masfrand. (ID: 32584)
Authorship or Source:
- Pauchou, Guy.
- Masfrand, Pierre.
- Association Nationale des Familles des Martyrs d'Oradour-sur-Glane
Year:
1957
Title or Main Description:
ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE : VISION D'ÉPOUVANTE / Guy Pauchou, Pierre Masfrand.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Paris : Comite du Souvenir et de L'Association Nationale des Familles des Martyrs d'Oradour-sur-Glane
Description:
- 206 p. : ill., docs., facsims., map (folded), plan (folded), port, tabs.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 642 Names.
Type of Work:
Book
Alternate or Series Title:
Oradour-sur-Glane : vision d'epouvante.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Yad Vashem Library (Jerusalem, Israel). Call Number: 59-0794
- Not available in USHMM Library Collection as of June 2003 [other editions available]
Keywords:
- Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944 --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Atrocities --France --Oradour-sur-Glane --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --France --Oradour-sur-Glane.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Destruction and pillage --France --Oradour-sur-Glane.
- Oradour-sur-Glane (France) --History
- YAD VASHEM LIBRARY KEYWORDS:
- ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, MASSACRE.
- LISTS - VICTIMS, NON-JEWISH.
Abstract:
- 1957 edition of a memorial publication concerning the (non-Jewish) French community of Oradour-sur-Glane. On June 10, 1944, in reprisal for local French partisan activities, the SS-Panzer Division "Das Reich" surrounded this village and then ordered everyone in the town, 652 persons, to assemble in the town square. Once there, they were told by the Nazi commandant that they were suspected of hiding explosives and as a result there would be a search and a check of identity papers. The entire population was then locked up, the men in barns, women and children in the church. The Nazis then set fire to the entire village and began shooting the villagers with machine guns, then set the barns and the church on fire, burning the men, women and children alive, and shooting anyone who survived. A total of 642 townspeople -- 245 women, 207 children, and 190 men were massacred.
- The book contains an alphabetical register of the victims of the massacre (p. 146-202). Entries include last name, first name, maiden name where relevant, profession, date and place of birth, and last known residence.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in French.
- Includes: Liste de deces du 10 juin 1944 (p. 146-202)
- Available in English translation as: Oradour-sur-Glane : a vision of horror (Limoges : Sanufic Couleur, 1997).