Last updated on 7 February 2018
Compagnons de la Libération is a remarkable web documentary on this national order created by General de Gaulle to reward people who have made a name for themselves in the work of liberating France.. An excellent pedagogical tool on commitment and duty to remember.
Thank you to France 24 for making this long format before the last witnesses disappeared. 'Cause there's only 10 left. Of the 1,038 Companions of the Liberation, only 10 are still alive, aged between 96 and 103.
The webdocumentary presents five companions in a narrative mode enriched with historical images and documents, portraits and videos. A long format with simple and not very long texts that can be offered without fear to audiences of young readers up to high school.
We discover the journey of five Companions of the Liberation, four men and a woman. Henri Fertet, Georges Koudoukou, Marie Hackin, Marshal Kœnig and Mohammed V. The webdoc also portrays and gives the floor to one of the best-known companions, Alain Cordier, former secretary of Jean Moulin.
A beautiful documentary work and a simple and effective production to work on the story with your students. They will discover in passing the extreme youth of these heroes of the Resistance. More than 10 % of them were not 20 years old at the time of the declaration of war in September 1939. Like Henri Ferlet presented in this multimedia document and shot by the Germans at the age of 16.
Link: The Last Companions of Liberation – Maintaining the flame of the Resistance
In the same spirit as a multimedia object to work on this historical period, I would like to point out to you that a mobile application is ‘places of memory’. for iOS and Android. It allows you to discover nearly 1300 places already identified and presented by a team of historians. The ‘Memory Locations 1940-45’ application is connected to the Museum of Resistance Online, where all the histories of the identified places are archived.
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Thank you for this publication. I handed over the memorabilia to the Musée de la Déportation et de la Résistance in Besançon (Madame Mari-Claire Ruet Historienne was commissioned to pass on the research of the Historian François MARCOT, co-founder of the Museum), the late Historian Françoise LEBOUL and myself. The other collections are in the Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération. Please contact the Besançon … Museum of Deportation and Resistance and the Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération. The extensive historical research of authenticated documents and testimonies are for the most part at the Museum (City of Besançon) entitled … There remain homonyms of the name of Fertet without any kinship. The cousins are named after Goerges Pélissier and Monique Belin …. Myriam FERTET-BOUDRIOT (Family of Companion), niece and last descendant of Henri FERTET