Cyrille Vanhaeke
1900–1943 (age 43)
Biography
Cyrille Vanhaeke was born in 1900 in Ivry-sur-Seine, where he spent his life in this working-class community along the Seine. He lived through two world wars and the profound transformations of early twentieth-century France.
Cyrille died in 1943, during the final years of World War II. His memory endures as part of the historical record of those who lived through one of history's most turbulent periods.