Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101

Lucien Lazare, a member of the Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, has died at the age of 101.

During the war, Lazare was part of a small group of French Jews who worked alongside Allied forces. The group helped distribute supplies to resistance networks and engaged in armed action against German occupying forces.

Among the group's notable actions was an ambush on a German train, disrupting enemy logistics or movement. The same troop also took part in liberating a city in southern France from Nazi control.

Lazare's involvement reflects the broader, often underrecognized role that Jewish resistance fighters played in the armed struggle against Nazi occupation in France, alongside the country's larger resistance movement. His death marks the passing of another member of the generation that directly experienced and fought against the Nazi occupation of Europe.