Georges Livchitz
On a late evening of 19 april 2943, he and two other men, Jean Franklemon and Robert Maistriau, stopped a train of Jewish people on thier way from the town of Mecheken to Auschwitz. In the train, more than 1,400 Jewish people were on thier way to the death camp.
The number of the train was 801, and as they unlocked the doors of the box cars 15-17, a gun fight ensued in which 26 were killed, 6 wounded, and 33 ecaped. The man who drove the car that night was an informer for the SS and Gastapo, and a few days later they walked into a ambush thank's to the informer Pierre Romanovich.
Georges Livchitz was exacuted
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When all is said and done, so many people from the underground did so much, with so little at thier disposal. But what they did kept many German soldiers away from the front lines, busy with policing them. Their actviites kept thousands of German soldiers occupied and out of the front lines, and in doing this they sacrificed their own lives in the process. They saved many downed airmen and gave them safety at the expense of their own. By occupying Germans and keeping them away from the front lines, as they did, the underground movement saved many allied lives.
As history and life goes on, they seem to have been forgotten. But for me, they belong right on the top of the list of historical heroes as they tell their stories of WW2.
Below is the scene of the happy re-union of a downed pilot.
His story goes like this:
The Belgian underground fighter Frans Storms delivered this downed pilot to the family of Veroort in the Village of Winksele.
On January 1944, 20 Gestapo came to the house of the family Veroort and imprisoned them in the concentration camp called Buchenwald. There, they had to work in salt mines. The two sisters and their mother were in jail until May 1944 and were then sent to an extermination camp for women at Ravensbruck.
The two sisters escaped and arrived at Malmo, Sweden, and on 28 June 1945 were taken home by a Canadian DC-3.
They all surved the war.
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