"Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac was a Jewish member of the French Resistance in charge of propaganda, serving as a director of Free France wartime radio broadcasts from Britain. Later he helped create La Documentation Française, France’s state-run publishing house, and spent time recounting his wartime experiences. In his historical writings he hailed Britain’s help in freeing occupied France. He was born Jean-Louis Crémieux in the Paris suburb of Colombes into a Jewish family that had lived in south-eastern France for centuries. His code name “Brilhac” was added after he became a resistance fighter. He joined a movement of anti-fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s. Captured and sent to Germany, he escaped and fled to the Soviet Union, only to be held as a prisoner there. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 led to Soviet co-operation with Charles de Gaulle’s expatriate Free France forces, and Crémieux-Brilhac was released to travel to London, where he became a liaison officer with the BBC." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jeanlouis-cremieuxbrilhac-resistance-activist-and-historian-who-directed-free-france-radio-broadcasts-from-wartime-london-10176709.html
