René Anchierri
near Sedan (1940)
Years of War
1939-1945
On August 23, 1939, René Anchierri was mobilized in Blois and joined as lieutenant the 33rd Infantry Regiment. He was then assigned to the 136th Fortress Infantry Regiment (136th GIR) on 10 April 1940.
On 17 June 1940, he distinguished himself particularly at the command of his section under a violent bombardment and would receive a citation to the order of the regiment for this act of weapon on 31 March 1941.
He was captured in Bainville-sur-Madon, south of Nancy and interned from the 23 June 1940 in a prisoner camp in SOEST (Germany), Oflag VI-A. Block 4, room 119.
Readable Here daily life and conditions of captivity At Oflag VI A in Soest, by Lieutenant Roger Thoumyre, prisoner from July 1940 to April 1945.
Sources: www.bibliotheca-andana.be
Prisoner camp in Soest, Oflag VI A (1940)
René Anchierri, first row, second from right
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Illustration from the book-witness « Oflag VI A » by Marc Blancpain, seen by Morel-Fatio, published in 1941
One of the humorous drawings of the book « Krisegsgephanger nr. 4482 » of Maurice Varsavaux, circa 1944
Above, a testimony of daily life at Oflag VI-A, the album of 20 plates made by Brigadier Maurice Varsavaux during his captivity, which René Anchierri had ordered during his detention.
René Anchierri in the Uhlemeyer workshop (1943)
On June 2, 1943, responding to the Germany's labour demand, it accepts an offer of turner for the firm Uhlemeyer in Hanover, Glockseestrasse 14.
Richard Uhlemeyer speaks French. Their career and age are substantially the same. The company, founded in 1938, combines pottery and crafts (wholesale trade): wooden articles, basketry and raffia weaving exported abroad.
His boss will grant him some freedom of action that allows him to take walks and find the surrounding nature.
Ceramics
representative of work
by Richard Uhlemeyer
in the 1940s
René Anchierri in the Uhlemeyer workshop (1943)
Richard Uhlemeyer
Richard Uhlemeyer was born on 3 October 1900 in Göttingen, Germany.
He from an early age interested in sculpture. His father, who runs a plaster company, wishes his son Follow him. He refuses and leaves at 20 for Hanover, where he frequents the Kunstgewerbe- und-Handwerkerschule Hannover, Hanover School of Arts and Crafts.
The particular interest of Uhlemeyer for artistic pottery is...
He received permission in August 1943 and returned to get engaged with Anne-Marie Paturel. He met before the war through his father's shop, Eugene Paturel.
In October 1943, Hanover was bombed, destroying much of the city, and part of the factory whose ovens were to be stopped for more than a month.
He then went to work temporarily in a pottery workshop in a nearby village.
René and Anne-Marie his fiancée, the Aravis (August 1943)
American troops entered Hanover on 10 April 1945. René Anchierri and his companions may return to France. They travel mainly at night not to hinder the movement of Allied troops and are soon back in their homes, that same month of April 1945.
