Henri Papin

1920–1943 (age 23)

resistance fighter

Biography

Henri Papin was born in 1920, and as he came of age he responded to the call of freedom by joining the resistance in Ivry-sur-Seine.

He worked alongside fellow patriots to safeguard residents and, in 1943, he sacrificed himself so that their hopes might endure.

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