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André Rogerie (25 December 1921 – May 2014〔(The death of General André Rogerie, eyewitness of the Shoah ), courrierdelouest.fr〕) was a member of the French Resistance in World War II and survivor of seven Nazi concentration camps who testified after the war about what he had seen in the camps. Rogerie was born in Villefagnan in the Charente department of south-western France.〔(Memorial book, Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation )〕 His trajectory was "typical of the complexity of the movement of deportees among the camps."〔Annette Wieviorka, ''Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l’oubli'', Plon, 1992, p. 249.〕 His eyewitness account of Auschwitz-Birkenau exemplifies the self-published eyewitness accounts published in the immediate aftermath of the war, but ignored until the 1980s. He is also notable for having produced the oldest contemporary sketch of a camp crematorium, also ignored by historians for decades〔 until the 1987 publication of ''Le Monde juif'' by . ==Early years and entry into the French Resistance== André Rogerie was born to Joseph et Jeanne Rogerie〔(Villefagnan : le général André Rogerie, ancien déporté, s'est éteint )〕 in Villefagnan, in the department of Charente in western France on 25 December 1921, the fifth child in a Catholic military family.〔(INA, Major Interviews, General André Rogerie ); audio recording〕 His father was an officer who died in 1923 from wounds he received in World War I.〔 He was raised with a traditional love of country and God. His older brother, also an officer, was killed in 1940.〔 The German invasion in May 1940 and defeat of France was deeply distressing to him; when he learned that Marshal Philippe Pétain requested an armistice from the Germans in June, he collapsed.〔 A few days later, a friend informed him that a young General DeGaulle was continuing the war in England, and Rogerie resolved to join him.〔 In 1941, he joined the lycée St. Louis in preparation for entering the French military academy at St. Cyr.〔 He joined up with the Ceux de la Libération (CDLL) movement, which was chiefly involved in the manufacture of false papers and which his cousin had joined, but as a young intern, he had limited involvement.〔 His goal was above all else to get to England and join the fight. He was not aware of anti-Jewish discrimination until he saw Jews obliged to wear the yellow star in June 1942.〔 As a mark of solidarity, he and a colleague went around Angouleme for a few days wearing a blue star.〔 He walked around in public throwing anti-German pamphlets he crudely printed himself.〔 After the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942, he sought to join the Free French Forces led by Charles de Gaulle via Spain and the southern Mediterranean Sea.〔 Through a colleague, he found a source and obtained some counterfeit identity papers, however they were of poor quality, and at age 21 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Dax on 3 July 1943 along with two other friends. He was imprisoned and held by the Gestapo in Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux and Compiègne before being deported to the camps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「André Rogerie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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