François Besson

  • 1921: Born in France
  • Studied medicine in Paris
  • Spring 1944: As a young doctor, François Besson goes with the nurse Odette Peillon to Berlin in order to help the Red Cross with the repatriation of seriously ill French forced labourers and prisoners of war
  • June 1944: Abandonment of repatriation after the invasion of Normandy
  • Until end of the war: Worked at a branch of Urban Hospital on Graefestraße in Kreuzberg, cared for West Europeans suffering from tuberculosis, married Odette Peillon
  • July 1945: Return to Paris
  • October 2011: Video interview at a nursing home in Nizza
  • François Besson died three weeks later.

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