Ornans. Julien Bazile, one of the last deportees from Doubs, has died

He was one of the last survivors of Nazi barbarism in Doubs. Julien Bazile died this Friday, November 8 at the age of 103.

A former resistance fighter and deportee, decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, he was 18 years old when the Second World War impacted his daily life as a teenager in the Paris region. A worker in a subsidiary of the Normandy workshops, he was requisitioned by the Germans in November 1942 and sent across the Rhine to work in the immense industrial complex of Leuna. A month after his arrival, he escaped and returned to France where he joined the Resistance within the Mithridates network.

A year in the hell of the camps

Young Bazile was sent to Brittany where he was arrested on September 13, 1943 and deported on April 27, 1944 to Auschwitz first, then Buchenwald and finally Flossenburg. He survived for a year in the hell of the camps before being released on April 26, 1945. He then weighed 43 kg.

A few months later, he came to stay in Ornans where he met Madeleine Donier, whom he married in 1947 and with whom he had two children. Hired at Oerlikon (which would become Alstom), the Paris native built his life in Doubs.

Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1995, he was president of the veterans of his canton for many years, but also, for a time, departmental president of the Association of Volunteer Resistance Fighters.

Julien Bazile rests at the Pays d'Ornans funeral home. In accordance with his wishes, a civil memorial service will take place at the Ornans cemetery on Tuesday, November 12, at 2:30 p.m.