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Via Fr. Z @ WDTPRS (wdtprs.com/blog/2009/02/some-interesting-about-archbp-lefebvre/)
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Marcel Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing, Nord (département), the second son and third child of factory-owner René Lefebvre. René Lefebvre died in 1944 in the Nazi concentration camp at Sonnenburg (in East Brandenburg), where he had been imprisoned by the Gestapo because of his work for the French Resistance and British Intelligence. (Reference: absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Marcel_Lefebvre#encyclopedia]("))
At the time of the First World War (1914-1918), Mr. Lefebvre had served his country by operating as a spy. Decades later, when the Nazis occupied France, he resumed this work, risking his life an incalculable number of times helping soldiers and escaped prisoners return to un-occupied France and London. (Reference: leflochreport.com/site/?Rene-Lefebvre-and-the-Holocaust RENE LEFEBVRE AND THE HOLOCAUST; see also the Russian web site: dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/47825)
"Not very far from Cracow, in the Polish town of S?onsk, near the German border, there (was) a small concentration camp and prison. In the Sonnenburg prison, a brave Catholic Frenchman died after years of torture and suffering in the hands of the Nazis.His name was René Lefebvre (photo below, with his wife and children), loving father of the founder of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX/SSPX). (Reference: rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2006/05/wit-alert.html)