Bois de la Rosière – Résistance 2ème guerre mondiale
Stele in memory of the resistance fighters
The Bois de la Rosière monument stands at the edge of the woods that gave it its name, in the commune of Tournes near Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes), where thirteen resistance fighters were executed without trial on August 29, 1944.
On August 29, 1944, a few hours before their departure, the Germans resigned themselves to freeing the patriots detained in the Charleville prison, Place Carnot, about fifty men and women. But at the insistence of the Gestapo and the French Militia, they decided to shoot a few hostages first.
And so the thirteen unfortunates, chosen at random, were taken from their cell and transported by truck to the Bois de la Rosière (commune of Tournes) where they were immediately shot.
They were led to believe that they were going to be released; among them were two women.
And so the thirteen unfortunates, chosen at random, were taken from their cell and transported by truck to the Bois de la Rosière (commune of Tournes) where they were immediately shot.
They were led to believe that they were going to be released; among them were two women.
The Bois de la Rosière monument was inaugurated on August 30, 1947 in the presence of many personalities from the Ardennes Resistance and Pierre Schneiter, deputy of the Marne, brother of André Schneiter.
Built on the very site of the massacre, at the initiative of the commune of Tournes which had called for a public subscription, this monument is the work of the Reims sculptor Gustave Maily. It consists of a marble stele erected on the site of a wooden Cross of Lorraine erected the day after the Liberation.
Above the names of the thirteen executed resistance fighters are engraved a Cross of Lorraine and the inscription:
“Here on August 29, 1944, on the eve of the Liberation, thirteen patriots were shot by the Germans”
Built on the very site of the massacre, at the initiative of the commune of Tournes which had called for a public subscription, this monument is the work of the Reims sculptor Gustave Maily. It consists of a marble stele erected on the site of a wooden Cross of Lorraine erected the day after the Liberation.
Above the names of the thirteen executed resistance fighters are engraved a Cross of Lorraine and the inscription:
“Here on August 29, 1944, on the eve of the Liberation, thirteen patriots were shot by the Germans”
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