Jean Alézard
1916–1944 (age 28)
Biography
Jean Alézard was born in 1916 and put his skills as an electrician to use for the resistance, helping to reroute power to hide safe houses and to keep radios running in Ivry-sur-Seine.
His ingenuity proved vital in 1944 as networks expanded, and when he fell that year his fellow citizens remembered a generous spirit who lit the way for others.