Raymond Savoyat, former soldier and resistance fighter, died this Saturday in Grenoble (Isère), at the age of 96.
Raymond Savoyat, native of Isère, former soldier, resistance fighter and hero of the Second World War who took part in the Liberation of Lyon, Bourgoin, La Tour-du-Pin and the evacuation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died last Saturday, in Grenoble, in his native Isère, at the age of 96, announced The world.
In 1940, then aged 16, the teenager that is Raymond Savoyat saw German troops land in his town, La Tour-du-Pin. Two years later, after reaching adulthood, he joined the Resistance alongside his brother. Three years later, he was appointed group leader of the 4th battalion of snipers and partisans of the Secret Army.
He joins the Allied troops in Germany in the hope of finding his father
Following the Allied landing, Raymond Savoyat actively participated in the liberation of La Tour-du-Pin, then those of Bourgoin and Lyon, before joining the army. It was then that he asked to join the front, to fight alongside the soldiers present in Germany, in the hope of finding his father, deported in May 1940, the year of his engagement in the Resistance. A vain hope …
Member of the Third Army of American General Patton, Raymond Savoyat took part in the evacuation of the Buchenwald concentration camp but his father was not one of the survivors. The latter died in April 1945, a few weeks before the German surrender, in the Austrian camp of Mauthausen.
Two years after the end of the world conflict, in 1947, Raymond Savoyat left the army. As a reward for his acts of bravery, he was knighted in the Legion of Honor in 2012.
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