Dauliat Germain & Françoise

Dauliat, Françoise Dauliat, Germain File 7292 The Rosenstiel family, Jews from Haguenau in the département of Bas-Rhin, arrived in Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze) as refugees during the occupation. Marcel Rosenstiel met Germain Dauliat, who lived in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the wooden-shoe factory where they both worked. Their families became friends and the Dauliats provided the Rosenstiels with material and moral support. When arrests of Jews in Brive began, M. Dauliat offered to hide the four Rosenstiels in his home. He and his wife prepared a hideout in the cellar, and the Rosenstiels used it whenever they learned of impending arrests. The Catholic leader, Edmond Michelet (q.v.), who lived near the Rosenstiels, used to send his children to warn the Rosenstiels. In 1943, when Michelet himself was arrested and deported to Dachau, the Rosenstiels moved into the Dauliat’s cellar. M. Dauliat, his wife Françoise, and their two daughters, Simone and Paulette, sheltered their wards and met their other needs with great warmth until the town was liberated. They incurred great risk in so doing because Brive was situated in a dangerous area. In June-August 1944, as German forces retreated from southern to northern France, they inflicted terrible atrocities upon the local population, especially members of the Resistance and people suspected of sheltering Jews in Brive and the surrounding area. After the war, Rosenstiel discovered that the Dauliats’ neighbors had denounced them to the authorities. Fortunately, the information arrived too late. The Rosenstiels returned to their home in Haguenau in June 1945, and remained good friends with the Dauliats for many years. On August 27, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Germain and Françoise Dauliat as Righteous Among the Nations.