Bordeaux in WW2 History | World War II Database

5 May 1884

France

Jean Decoux was born in Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Jean Decoux | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

20 Jun 1940

France

The 1,177-ton Dutch steamer Berenice departed Bordeaux, France at 1330 hours with 22 passengers on board, mostly Dutch and Belgians refugees, among them the poet H. Marsman and his wife and the Dutch painter T. Bottema. The ship sailed together with the Dutch steamer Orpheus, the coasters Nettie and Ary Scheffer and the tug Seine, but they got dispersed in the following night and only the Nettie was in visual range. ww2dbase [Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]

22 Jun 1940

France

The 3,713-ton French merchant steamer Amienois was bombed and sunk by German aircraft as she was pulling out of the harbor at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]

30 Mar 1943

France

G. van der Vuurst, survivor of Dutch steam merchant ship Madoera, which was damaged by German submarine U-653 on 24 Feb 1943, was landed by German submarine U-758 at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]

10 Jan 1944

France

French police arrested 228 Jews in and near Bordeaux and rounded them up at the Bordeaux synagogue. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]

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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
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