Joseph Belbéoch

Joseph Belbéoch, resistant communist, killed to the battle of the bridge of Joinville on August 25th, 1944.

Breton and communist

Born in 1895, was “Breton, communist and… frightening combatant”. He lives with Saint-Maurice (the Valley-of-Marne)|Saint-Maurice, commune then in the department of the the Seine (currently in the the Valley-of-Marne). It is integrated in the army during the First World War.

It has as wire Roger Belbéoch, also militant of the communist and resistant French, which was mayor-assistant of Joinville-le-Pont (1977 - 1983) then named Juste among the nations in 1984 by the museum-memorial of Yad-Vashem with Jerusalem (Israel).

His/her son ensures that it received from Joseph Belbéoch the values which forged its engagement. “Of the butchery of 1914 - 1918, it returned viscéralement opposed to the war and Fascism. I was thirteen years old, in 1934, when the fascistic leagues and of Rocque wanted to reverse the Republic. February 6th, I was with him, street of Rivoli, already in the brawl”.

Resisting killed the combat

Joseph Belbéoch joined the Franc-tireurs and In favor French (FTPF) within the group Marcel Palaud of Saint-Maurice.

According to his/her son, “when the dark moments came, engagement in resistance, it was natural”.

When the FTPF are integrated in the French Forces of the interior (FFI), beginning 1944, it is seen allotting the rank of lieutenant.

Within his group, which also includes/understands Robert Deloche, future mayor of Joinville-le-Pont, Joseph Belbéoch takes part in the battle of the bridge of Joinville on August 25th, 1944. he will find this day death under the German balls.

A crossroads of Joinville-le-Pont bears the name of Joseph Belbéoch and a plate with its name is affixed in the town hall.

The battle of the bridge of Joinville

August 25th, 1944, the troops of Leclerc return in Paris, and will obtain the rendering of the German forces. In the Parisian east, important combat are held. The FFI discussed the Joinville bridge, to prevent the retirement of the German troops. They are attacked in the morning by the troops which try to leave the capital. The afternoon, several hundreds of German soldiers and the tanks come to take part in the engagements, while the FFI have evil to obtain ammunition and reinforcements. “Makes approximately 500 German soldiers of Them attacked the barricades to seize the Bridge of Joinville and thus to spare an axis of exit towards the East with the troops which fled Paris. The population of Joinville which had set up these barricades took part in the engagements, which explains the age of certain victims, by supplying the combatants with ammunition. The confrontation will last all after midday. ”.

Certain German, installed in the station of the Railroad of the Bastille at Joinville-le-Pont, will occupy the places until in the morning of August 26th. The battle makes 19 dead among the combatants of Resistance and the civilians.

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