André Rogerie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

André Rogerie

French WW2 General

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Villefagnan, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 01-May-2014

Profession: military personnel, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

André Rogerie (25 December 1921 – May 2014) 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.
His trajectory was "typical of the complexity of the movement of deportees among the camps." 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 Georges Wellers.