[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”8\/12″][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes” text_color=”color-122240″ heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”fontsize-978791″ text_height=””][\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”124007″]Edouard Troupenat was born on 31 August 1924 in La Chapelle, a small village in the French Alps. He was one of three sons of the farmer Louis Henri Troupenat and his wife Agathe. After leaving school, Edourd Troupenat became a farm laborer.<\/p>\n
In 1943, at the age of 18, he joined the R\u00e9sistance and participated in underground military actions against the German occupiers. In May 1944, the German field gendarmerie arrested him. In mid-August, he was deported from the Compi\u00e8gne camp near Paris to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. From there, the SS transferred him to the Holzen subcamp (southern Lower Saxony) in September 1944, where he was a forced laborer in an underground facility of the Volkswagen company.<\/p>\n
In April 1945, he survived a death march from Holzen to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, but died there on 5 May 1945, three weeks after it was liberated by British troops. He was 20 years old.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”6\/12″][vc_single_image media=”840″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes” el_class=”schatten”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”4\/12″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”910177″]Personal effects file from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp for Edouard Troupenat, 22 August 1944.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”683322″]The items indicated on the card were confiscated from Edouard Troupenat upon arrival at Buchenwald Concentration Camp.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](Arolsen Archives)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”3″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ el_class=”postflow”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”7\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4\/12″][vc_single_image media=”842″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes” el_class=”schatten”][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”144963″]Buchenwald Concentration Camp work card for Edouard Troupenat, September 1944.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”207004″]The entry for “KDO.” ((Arbeits)kommando<\/i>, work detail) is “Hecht,” the codename for the subcamp and armament project near Holzen in the Weserbergland.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small”](Arolsen Archives)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_inner_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”-5″ z_index=”0″][vc_column_inner width=”2\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”-5″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/12″][vc_single_image media=”838″ media_lightbox=”yes” media_width_percent=”100″ lbox_caption=”yes”][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h4″ text_size=”h4″ text_height=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”830822″]Portrait of Edouard Troupenat, drawn by fellow prisoner Camille Del\u00e9tang in the Holzen subcamp, 12 March 1945.[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”975672″]A few weeks after this portrait was drawn, Edouard Troupenat was dead. The drawing is the last sign of life for him.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_lead=”small” uncode_shortcode_id=”651021″](Mittelbau-Dora Memorial)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5\/12″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][uncode_block id=”774″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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