José Aboulker (b. March 5, 1920) was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German He was born in the Algerian capital Algiers into a Jewish family. Algiers (الجزائر Algerian Arabic: Dzayer ( (From kabyle pronunciation Kabyle: Ledzayer, Alger) is the Capital and largest His father, Henri Aboulker, was a surgeon and professor in the Faculty of Medicine in Algiers. His mother, Berthe Aboulker, was a woman of letters.
A medical student at the outbreak of World War II, Aboulker was mobilised in April 1940 as an officer cadet. He was demobilised in February 1941.
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Aboulker and the Algerian Resistance
In September 1940, Aboulker founded a resistance network in Algiers, in partnership with his cousin Roger Carcassonne who had done the same at Oran, and Aboulker subsequently became one of the main leaders of the Algerian resistance movement. Roger Carcassonne-Leduc ( 12 January 1911 in Marnia &ndash 10 December 1991 in Paris) was a member of the French Resistance The two cousins met Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, with whom they prepared support for the expected Allied landings in North Africa, in collaboration with Colonel Germain Jousse and the U. Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie ( 11 September 1897 - 10 October 1952) was a French soldier ''Résistance'' member and conservative S. Consul Robert Murphy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's representative in Algiers. Robert Murphy or Bob Murphy is the name of Irish Bob Murphy (1922&ndash1961 American light heavyweight boxer Bob Murphy (announcer
The headquarters for the preparation were at his father's house at 26 Rue Michelet.
On the night of the Allied landings in North Africa, November 8, 1942, Aboulker led the occupation of Algiers by 400 members of the Resistance, seizing the central police station, with his deputy Bernard Karsenty and the help of Guy Calvet and Superintendent Achiary.
Led by their group leaders, all of the Resistance fighters, with the exception of the reserve officers, neutralised the command centres, occupied strategic positions, and stopped the military officials and civilian supporters of the Vichy government, starting with General Alphonse Juin, the Commander-in-chief, and Admiral François Darlan. Alphonse Pierre Juin ( 16 December 1888 &ndash 27 January 1967) was a Marshal of France. François Darlan (7 August 1881 &ndash 24 December 1942 was a French Naval officer.
In the morning, when the XIXth Army Corps of the Vichy Government tried to mobilise to oppose the Allied landings, it had to concentrate its efforts on the Resistance fighters rather than Allied forces. Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944 With the landings around Algiers having been completed, Aboulker--anxious not to spill French blood--asked the group leaders to evacuate their positions. Using Resistance fighters from the evacuated positions, he organised with the group leader Captain Pillafort barricades to hinder the mobilisation of the Vichy military. As a result, the forces of the Vichy government did not attack by that evening the central police station, the last place with insurgents. The confusion created by the so-called “putsch” of 8 November 1942 helped the Allies land almost without opposition and then encircle Algiers. Admiral Darlan surrendered Algiers that afternoon, and Allied troops entered the city at 8 pm.
On December 24, 1942, Darlan, who had named himself High Commissioner and maintained Vichy policies with the support of General Henri Giraud, was killed by a 20-year-old monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, who was executed on December 26. Henri Honoré Giraud ( 18 January 1879 &ndash 13 March 1949) was a French general who fought in World War I and World Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, born in 1922 in Algiers and executed in that city on December 26 1942 was a member of the French resistance who shot Admiral of the Giraud succeeded Darlan and ordered the arrest of Aboulker and 26 other Resistance leaders for complicity in Darlan's assassination, and they were immediately deported to prison camps in southern Algeria.
Aboulker and the Metropolitan Resistance
Freed following the Casablanca Conference in 1943 (also called the “Anfa Conference”), Aboulker returned to London in May 1943 and joined the Free French. The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French Protectorate, from January 14 to The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres FFL) were French fighters in World War II who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces
In October of that year, he was sent secretly into occupied France, as someone “responsible for the organisation of the health service of the Resistance movement”, preparing for the Liberation. There, he led operations parachuting surgical equipment into France.
Back in London in June 1944, he returned to Algiers, where he had his viva in medicine.
In August 1944, he left for a new mission in the south of France, to install prefects at Toulouse, Limoges, and Clermont-Ferrand.
Aboulker in times of peace
Aboulker was the representative of the Algerian Resistance at the Provisional Consultative Assembly at Paris from 1944 to 1945, and he proposed changing the electoral law in Algeria to allow the election of native Muslim deputies, who had never previously been admitted. The proposal was adopted.
After the war, Aboulker joined the French Communist Party, and in 1946 he resumed his medicinal studies. The French Communist Party ( French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of He passed the internal examinations at the Hospital of Paris and finally became a professor of neurosurgery.
Aboulker committed himself to Algerian independence and opposed the return of General de Gaulle as head of the French government in 1958. Taking into account the General’s role in dismantling the French empire, including Algeria, Aboulker voted in 1965 for his reelection as President of the Republic. He belonged to the emergency medical service set up for the president of the Republic following the assassination attempt made at Petit-Clamart.
Aboulker is a Commander of the Legion of Honour and holder of the War Cross (1939-45), with 3 citations. He has been a member of the Liberation Council since June 1999.
Bibliography
- Professeur José Aboulker et Christine Levisse-Touzé, 8 novembre 1942 : Les armées américaine et anglaise prennent Alger en quinze heures, Paris, Espoir, n° 133, 2002.
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