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Camille Senon, Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre Survivor and Union Leader, Dies at 100

Her testimony over decades helped keep the 1944 atrocity in France’s public memory.

Camille Senon chez elle à Limoge le 6 septembre 2017

Overview

  • Her death at age 100 was announced Thursday by the mayor of Oradour-sur-Glane, according to AFP.
  • Senon narrowly escaped the 10 June 1944 massacre by the SS division Das Reich, losing her entire family among the 642 victims.
  • She became a prominent witness to the crimes, including public testimony at the Bordeaux trial linked to Oradour-sur-Glane.
  • After the war she joined the CGT and the French Communist Party, leading a major women’s section of the CGT PTT in Paris and advocating for women’s rights.
  • Late in life she ran for municipal office in Limoges in 2014, protested the appearance of Dieudonné, and refused the Ordre national du Mérite in 2016 on principle.