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Ceremony Recognition
to Chagey
July 8, Medal and Diploma of Righteous Among the Nations were awarded posthumously to Louis and Jeanne Felten. Their daughter, Jeannine Sainsimon-Felten has received from the hands of Gilbert Roos, Consul of Israel in Strasbourg. At the invitation of Mayor Joseph Loch and the Delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem, Didier Cerf, the ceremony was to frame the room Georges Brassens Chagey.
Summary File Yad Vashem:
- "From birth, the fates Yvan Rueff and Louis Felten will bind. Both born in Guebwiller (Haut-Rhin). The first belongs to a Jewish community in old location, he was born in 1906. The second was born in 1913.
With the crisis of the 30s, work becomes scarce. Louis and Joan, his wife, a native of Soultz, leaving the Upper Rhine to the Doubs. Forges Audincourt commit yet. Louis finds a job and the couple moved to Hericourt.
Motivated by their example, Yvan Rueff suggested to his wife, Maria, a young Catholic Wasserburg, follow the same route. Both are committed to Peugeot and now live in Héricourt.
Felten's family grew in 1937 with the birth of which will be followed by Janice Raymond in 1940 (with Maria Rueff godmother) and Daniel in 1942.
The father decided to change completely his whole career and join the police. After school Plombieres-les-Dijon, Louis is first attached to the police station and then to that of Audincourt Hericourt. The
Felten ADJUST So in this county of Haute-Saône in 1943.
While the rampant persecution of Jews, and to preserve Yvan Rueff, the couple Felten offered to host it. For any curious neighbors and even bad people, Yvan will be presented as a cousin. If it is so saved, his wife Maria was put behind the barbed wire of Drancy. Fortunately for her, she proves that she is not Jewish and even Catholic. The occupying authorities in recovering the freedom ...
In August 1944, Yvan Rueff out of the shadows. He joined the maquis Lomont.
Felten As for Louis, whose patriotism is unwavering and warns Jews particular arrest programmed he is put under arrest September 11, 1944. Interned in Heilbronn, he will find freedom on 1 May 1945. "
-" Its merits will be recognized that earned him the Military Cross, Military Medal, the Cross of voluntary resistance fighter, the Medal of deportation and the Legion of Honor. It will remain attached to the police Héricourt until his retirement in 1968. "
Claude Raymond
- "Taking all the risks, Louis and Jeanne Felten had gathered in their homes, Hericourt, Yvan Ruell refractory STO Israelite, from February 5 to August 28, 1944. These eight months have saved the life of a hunted man whose Belfort parents were rounded up by French police of the collaborationist Vichy regime to be sent to Dachau.
(...) Louis Felten participates actively in various raids, receiving airdrops, transportation of arms and wounded, sabotage bombings. It provides false papers for fugitives. But above all, his perfect knowledge of German allows him to effectively learn about the activities of the Feldgendarmerie. Sleeps with him to escape certain arrest. "
(The Netherlands).
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