Memorial Arnaud Fraiteur

On the facade hangs a bronze plaque commemorating the resistance fighter and resident of this house, Arnaud FRAITEUR (1924-1943).
It is a design by the Belgian sculptor Arthur Dupagne.
There is also a stumbling stone at the house.

"ARNAUD FRAITEUR
Died a martyr for the fatherland on May 10, 1943 at the age of 19"

Arnaud Fraiteur was born in Ixelles on 23 May 1924. He had just started his engineering studies at the University of Liège when it had to close after the German invasion in May 1940. He continued his studies clandestinely at the ULB and joined the resistance. Under the pseudonym Max, he becomes a member of the Belgian Partisan army, better known as Partisans Armés.
On April 13, accompanied by two other resistance fighters (André Bertulot and Maurice Raskin) he shoots Paul Colin and his bodyguard in the bookshop under the office of "Le Nouveau Journal en Cassandre" on the Bergstraat in Brussels. Journalist and art critic Paul Colin was a notorious collaborator and director of the daily newspaper "Le Nouveau Journal" and the weekly newspaper "Cassandre", French speaking mouthpieces of the occupying forces.
Fraiteur's companions are quickly arrested after the attack. Arnaud Fraiteur manages to go into hiding but is betrayed before he can escape to France.
The three resistance fighters are taken to Fort Breendonk where they are tortured and hanged on May 10, 1943. Arnaud Fraiteur was 19 years old.

Source: VUB Today

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• Text: Marie-Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck