Victor Dillard (1897–1945) was a French Jesuit and a hero of the
French Resistance
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during
World War II
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. He attempted to organize the
French compulsory workers deported to Germany, but was arrested and died in
Dachau
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.
Victor Dillard came from a bourgeois family from Blois , among a family of ten children (seven sons), including Robert (1889-1968, polytechnician , student at the naval school, future rear admiral ), Pierre (1891-1915, died for France , studied at the naval school like his brother. Another of his brothers, Étienne Dillard, is the father of the singer Françoise Hardy.
Works
*Victor Dillard, Lettres du prisonnier inconnu, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Le monde ouvrier, 1941
*Victor Dillard, Suprêmes témoignages, Paris, Spes, coll. « Action populaire », 1945
Further reading
*Robert Dillard, La vie et la mort du R.P. Dillard, Les œuvres françaises, 1947
*Philippe Verrier (postface Charles Molette), Le P. Victor Dillard, jésuite, mort à Dachau en 1945, "L'un des cinquante", Magny-les-Hameaux, Socéval Éditions/Artège, juillet 2005
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References
External links
Victor Dillard (French)
1897 births
1945 deaths
20th-century French Jesuits
French people who died in Dachau concentration camp
Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps
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