Sarlat Maxime & Éléonore (Frantz)

Sarlat, Eléonore Sarlat, Maxime File 3360 Maxime Sarlat was a teacher and municipal secretary in Villamblard, in the département of the Dordogne. When the war broke out, many families who had been evacuated from border localities in Alsace, including several Jews, relocated in the area.. Maxime and his wife Eléonore were entirely hostile to the anti-Jewish policies of the Vichy regime. For that reason, the municipal secretary decided to give false identification papers to many Jews, so they could avoid arrest and deportation, since their own documents were stamped Juif. Thu, Alfred Uhry, his family, staff members of Jewish organizations in the city of Périgueux, and even children under the protection of the OSE in Montintin, near Limoges all received new identities. Sarlat, a member of the Resistance, was denounced by an informer and arrested on December 16, 1943. He was tortured at the Gestapo headquarters in Limoges and deported to Buchenwald. He survived the war but returned to Villamblard weak and ill. After her husband’s arrest, Eléonore remained active in the Resistance and continued to furnish Jews with forged papers. In this fashion, she enabled Marguerite Marx, a social worker in the Jewish resistance, to elude the Gestapo dragnet and flee from Périgueux to Paris, in April 1944. On May 19, 1986, Yad Vashem recognized Maxime and Eléonore Sarlat as Righteous Among the Nations.