Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

Then there is this one, unbearable and haunting.
HEADLINE: LAST VICTIMS (Handwritten: AUGUST 25, 1944)
SUBHED: The Eleven of Villeneuve-Saint-Denis
The names of the perished are listed below.
Claude Kieffer’s name is circled in red; the handwriting to the right is hard to read.

This is my best guess about what it says, but I'd sure appreciate help if you think I've made a mistake:

"He was the son of Commandant Keiffer, a French Commandant who debarked in Normandy at Ouistraham on June 6, 1944."

The article:

They were ten young members of the Resistance organized by the “Vengeance” movement of Tournon and hidden by the forest-ranger at “la Brétèche d’Hermière”—service buildings on the Rothschild property.

They came from Paris, Pantin, Montreuil, Rosny, Vincennnes...four worked at the Imprimerie Nationale before fleeing the STO. Only one, Lucien Cotel, came from a neighboring town (Favières). Awaiting orders for the Liberation action, they chopped wood in the forest of Villemageon,

in La Petite Fourtelle.

On August 25, surprised in Brétèche by retreating Germans, they were immediately dragged to the Favières sandpit, in the Charbonnier woods, between the backstreets of Mail and Gros Hêtre.

There they were shot, all 10, along with the guard, Henri Jambois.

Photo Caption: The monument to those gunned down, erected in 1945 in Villeneuve-Saint-Denis.

Handwritten, over right column: "Villeneuve-Saint-Denis."

Then below, another article. (I don't know where these were published.)

August 25, 1944, Paris has been liberated. But in Seine-et-Marne, history has not spoken the last word. On the same afternoon on August 25, gunshots crackle in the forest of the Brie region,

on the D21 between Pontcarré and Villeneuve-Saint-Denis. 11 youths have just been executed by the Germans.

Between 17 and 26 years old, originally from the Paris region, they were all resisting the STO, and working on labor sites created for cover in the forest,

under the aegis of the Imprimerie Nationale. All were active members of the FFI. The youngest of the group was the son of Commander Kieffer, who had debarked in June 1944 at Ouistraham, heading the Green Berets. On August 25, the routed Nazis arrive in Favières.

Furious that the maquis of “La Guette” had taken some of their own as prisoners, they search and ransack every farm and arrest ten youths in Brétèche. Their caretaker, Henri Jambois, who had left to buy bread, turns around immediately upon hearing of their arrest.

He believes he will be able to negotiate the liberation of his proteges, but instead, he too is arrested. Detained in trucks covered by tarps, the young Frenchmen are taken away by the Germans, who stop at the Dénicherie Passage to seize shovels and pickaxes from the locals.

Arriving deep in the forest, near the Gros Hêtre alley in the Villeneuve-Saint-Denis commune, the convoy stops and forces its prisoners to dig a pit. They will be executed at close range. A headstone was erected by the nearby communities,

but these 11 youths had to wait until 1949 to be declared “morts pour la France.”

Two days later, a similar scenario took place about twenty kilometers away. Twelve children from Choisy-le-Roy, aged between 17 and 23, along with one of their fathers,

are executed by the Nazis in the clearing near the Gué-à-Tresmes castle in the hamlet of Congis-sur-Thérouanne. Their crime? To have joined the ranks of the Resistance that was to liberate France.

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