Azerbaijani partisan Ahmed Michel Jebrailov, Hero of France, Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor
Cardo, Ahmad Michel, Armed Michel, Mathieu Michel, Curage Michel, Hargo, Fraji, Russe Ahmed. These names caused the fascists panic animal horror. And only one person inspired him - the guerrillas of the French Resistance squad Ahmed Jebrailov.
Ahmedia got to France as a prisoner of concentration camps under the number 4167 - a man without a name, without a future. But quite a bit of time passed, and the glory of his exploits thundered throughout the occupied south of France. His name, unusual for a foreign ear, in different interpretations did not leave the lips of numerous associates and enemies.
He was 16 years old when the war entered into their home with a heavy tread. Father and older brothers went to the front.
Sheki was in the distant rear, shells did not rumble over him, bombs did not explode, but from here the inhabitants of the region went to defend their great Motherland. Shekin's 14334 fought in the army, 12515 of them did not return home like that.
In 1942, the news of the death of the father and brothers of Ahmed came. It seemed to happen yesterday. The postman, who brought them infrequent news from the front, did not dare to enter the Jebrailovs' courtyard that day - he did not want to see the eyes of an orphaned mother and son at once. Illiterate neighbor boy agreed to pass the letter, thinking that will bring joy ...
Ahmed went to the front as a volunteer. Only one "triangle" received a mother from her son during the whole war: "Mom is alive and well, at war. Everything is going fine. Ahmedia."
Once surrounded, he was seriously wounded and was in a concentration camp. Fate has thrown Ahmedia in a small town in the south of France - Montauban. The ruthless fascist meat grinder broke human fates, leaving nothing, not even names. But fate had mercy on the Azerbaijani kid. "My dear Zhanna! Unforgettable Madame Zhanna! You have returned my life, it means you are my mother. Although they say that a person has one mother, I have two" (From the letter of A. Jebrailov to Madame Jeanne).
The camp cleaner, the kindest Madame Jeanne, arranged for Ahmedia to escape. (She dramatized his funeral, betrayed him for the dead). She led the Azerbaijani soldier to a partisan detachment. So, in the fall of 1942, Ahmedia Jabrailov became a fighter of the 4 squadron of the Corps of Front-Turners of the French Department of Garonne.
"In fulfilling my duty to the Soviet Motherland, I simultaneously pledge to honestly and faithfully serve the interests of the French people, on whose land I defend the interests of my Motherland. With all my strength I will support my French brothers in the fight against our common enemy - the German occupiers", - Ahmedia took the oath in the partisan detachment.
The name of Ahmed Michel became legendary among the French poppies - he, in the form of a German captain, led a partisan operation to save five hundred children of Resistance members taken out to Germany. The children were saved, and he, the wounded, was picked up by a German patrol in the field a day after a successful operation. Saved by the German form and documents of the officer, Ahmedia was sent for treatment to a German hospital. Discharged and for the heroism during the raid on the partisan train Ahmed was appointed ... commandant of the German garrison in the town of Albi, near Toulouse. The German commandant of the French city Ahmed Dzhabrailov, who graduated from the agricultural engineering school in Sheki in the fortieth year, stayed for eight months. He enjoyed authority among superiors and subordinates. The leadership of the French Resistance, led by General de Gaulle, closely monitored his activities as a German commandant. In his hands are dozens of threads leading to concentration camps and partisan underground. In large quantities, at the request of Commandant Albi, prisoners of war were taken out of concentration camps to repair urban roads, many of them fled to the forests. The commandant had to punish the careless guards and go to the concentration camp for a new party of prisoners of war. The merits of Ahmed Dzhabrailov before the French Resistance as commander of the German garrison of Albi were so high that they were admired by General de Gaulle. But it was impossible to test the patience of the Germans for so long, and by releasing another batch of captured Soviet soldiers, Ahmed fled to the partisans. The Germans for the capture of Dzhabrailov (Hargo) offered 10 000 marks!
The Military Cross, the Cross for Voluntary Service, the Military Medal of France - not every Frenchman won these high awards during the war years. The Azerbaijani youth received them from the hands of the legendary Charles de Gaulle and Maurice Thorez. Ahmed has one more very special reward - the Supreme Order of the Legion of Honor, which gives him, the soldier, the right to go to all the military parades of France ahead of the most distinguished generals. None of the Soviet generals and marshals had a French order of such rank. Besides G.K. Zhukov.
Victory parade. The military convoy is headed by Ahmed Jabrailov - Hero of France.
The war ended. Armed Michel works in the office of the President of the French Republic of de Gaulle. He is married to a Frenchwoman, they have two sons, a beautiful apartment in Paris. Ahmed - Ahmed Michel is one of the most respected members of the Union of Veterans of the Resistance. This is the support of the president, his guard, the elect. Just like Ahmed, his fighting friends in solid positions. In fact, the ruling party of France. Life is beautiful, Ahmed is only twenty-seven years old, he is a legend of the Resistance, he is invested with the confidence of General de Gaulle, he is the elite of France. In Dijon, there is a state-owned auto enterprise, named after him. Suddenly, in 1951, Armed Michel decides to become Ahmediya Dzhabrailov again and return to his native village of Ohud, which is five kilometers from Sheki. Persuading friends and officials do not help. Americans offer work and citizenship of the United States - this “resistance” - a born intelligence officer. The French government offers him the same Dijon plant in possession - all is useless. At parting, General de Gaulle hands his comrade-in-arms an honorary ticket - a permit for free travel on all types of transport in France. It was a privilege that only one person enjoyed in France - the president of the republic. I did not dissuade, we live in a free country, but an unusual gift meant that you can return at any time.
"In France, I often dream of our land, it swells, it is alive and blooming." No generous promises could not keep him in a foreign land. Ahmedia returned to his homeland, where a fierce surprise awaited him - the Soviet homeland loved to present them to the best of her sons. A ten-year exile to Siberia - this "high government award" was awarded to Ahmedia Jebrailov in his own country, where he was eagerly torn from hospitable France. Ten years of camps for being unconscious captured (meaning a traitor!), For having passed the hell of concentration camps (enlisted!), For finally having bravely fought the enemy (conspiracy slyly!).
After the "release" he returned to Sheki, became an agronomist. 30 hasn’t seen Ahmedia from any of his battle friends - the former convict has become "restricted to leave". And only when the Soviet Union visited Charles de Gaulle did Ahmedia be allowed to accept the invitation of the general - to visit France, to meet with his friends.
The film "1000 Days of Struggle" was preserved in the State Film Archive of Azerbaijan, which captured Jabrailov's visit to France in 1975 year. It is impossible to watch touching scenes without tears.
Like thirty years ago, on Victory Day, they again drank champagne at this most memorable acacia.
General Charles de Gaulle gave a banquet in honor of the arrival of Hero of France Ahmed Dzhebrailov. And the first toast sounded in honor of the Azerbaijani: "The grateful France will never forget the great feat of the Soviet soldier."
Before leaving for France, Ahmedia took a handful of his native land with him. He scattered it on the graves of Azerbaijani partisans. Jeyran Khanum, Michael Huseynov, Veliy Veliyev, Feyzulla Kurbanov ... "My dear, accept a handful of native land." No one knows better the price of this land than he is - a plowman and a warrior Ahmedia Jabrailov.
In 1943, the anti-fascist movement in France was gaining momentum day by day. Azerbaijanis played a huge role in it. In March-April, 1944, an underground organization led by our compatriot Mirzahan Mammadov, released a large number of Azerbaijanis from captivity who immediately joined the partisan detachments.
In August 1944, the Azerbaijani underground fighters staged an uprising in the camp. It was supposed to coincide with the raid of the French partisans on the German garrison, but in the evening of August 15, the religious minister of the camp, the provocateur and agent of the fascist Gestapo, became aware of the upcoming uprising. All the ringleaders were arrested and after brutal torture sent in an open car to the place of execution. Several of them managed to untie their hands on the way. Having freed their comrades from the shackles, they engaged in an unequal battle with the fascists. Five of the underground: Mirzakhan Mamedov, Mirzali Mamedli, Hasan Aliyev, Kurban Mamedov and Pasha Jafarkhanli died. The rest managed to go to the partisans.
17 August 1944 was liberated by the French and Azerbaijani partisans from the Nazis in the city of Rodez.
On August 18, a group of Azerbaijani partisans commanded by Guseinrza Mamedov, together with the French, destroyed the German garrison in Pandezarl and liberated more than 2000 prisoners. The liberated prisoners of Azerbaijanis united in the Azerbaijani partisan regiment.
This regiment took an active part in the liberation of the cities of Larzakh, Courses, Maid, Nim and others.
Azerbaijani partisan detachments were in other countries occupied by the Germans!
1 Azerbaijani guerrilla unit in France,
commander Guseinrza Mamedov.
2 Azerbaijani partisan detachment "Ruska couple" in Italy
Commander Javad Hakimli
8 th Azerbaijani partisan detachment - "Red Partisan"
Commander Mamed Aliyev
Sabotage group of partisan detachment
"Truth" in Belarus
In 1952, the leader of the Italian Communists, Palmiro Tolyatti, arrived in Moscow at the XIX Congress of the CPSU. He told Stalin about the heroism of the Soviet soldier, manifested in the fight against fascism in the mountains of Italy and Yugoslavia - it was Azerbaijani Mehdi Huseynzade. Stalin instructed the special agencies to clarify his combat biography in order to perpetuate the memory of Mehdi Huseynzade. Despite such a high level of instruction, only by 1957 was all the information collected, and Mehdi Huseynzade was posthumously presented to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. History Mehdi Huseynzade requires a separate story and I will introduce you to her in the next article!
In far Italy there is such a city - Pistoia. Few people know that at one time Azerbaijanis also participated in his liberation from the Nazi invaders. Two of them - Mamed Bagirov and Mirza Shahverdiyev, fighters of the Soviet Army, who managed to escape from German captivity and join the anti-fascist resistance movement, were later awarded the highest Italian military award - the golden Garibaldi Star.
Bagirov was also awarded the Order * Glory * of Italy!
It should be noted that the son of Ahmed Dzhabrailov - the National Hero of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Dzhabrailov, died in Karabakh, defending the territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Ahmedia Jabrailov died on 10 on October 1994 of the year in Sheki as a result of a car accident - a truck knocked down a telephone booth containing a Resistance hero!
Ridiculous death of a hero!
Often when asked, Why did he leave Paris, he replied with a smile: - La fortune est une franche courtisane ((Fortune is a real courtesan)
Materials used:
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Ahmedia got to France as a prisoner of concentration camps under the number 4167 - a man without a name, without a future. But quite a bit of time passed, and the glory of his exploits thundered throughout the occupied south of France. His name, unusual for a foreign ear, in different interpretations did not leave the lips of numerous associates and enemies.
He was 16 years old when the war entered into their home with a heavy tread. Father and older brothers went to the front.
Sheki was in the distant rear, shells did not rumble over him, bombs did not explode, but from here the inhabitants of the region went to defend their great Motherland. Shekin's 14334 fought in the army, 12515 of them did not return home like that. In 1942, the news of the death of the father and brothers of Ahmed came. It seemed to happen yesterday. The postman, who brought them infrequent news from the front, did not dare to enter the Jebrailovs' courtyard that day - he did not want to see the eyes of an orphaned mother and son at once. Illiterate neighbor boy agreed to pass the letter, thinking that will bring joy ...
Ahmed went to the front as a volunteer. Only one "triangle" received a mother from her son during the whole war: "Mom is alive and well, at war. Everything is going fine. Ahmedia."
Once surrounded, he was seriously wounded and was in a concentration camp. Fate has thrown Ahmedia in a small town in the south of France - Montauban. The ruthless fascist meat grinder broke human fates, leaving nothing, not even names. But fate had mercy on the Azerbaijani kid. "My dear Zhanna! Unforgettable Madame Zhanna! You have returned my life, it means you are my mother. Although they say that a person has one mother, I have two" (From the letter of A. Jebrailov to Madame Jeanne).
The camp cleaner, the kindest Madame Jeanne, arranged for Ahmedia to escape. (She dramatized his funeral, betrayed him for the dead). She led the Azerbaijani soldier to a partisan detachment. So, in the fall of 1942, Ahmedia Jabrailov became a fighter of the 4 squadron of the Corps of Front-Turners of the French Department of Garonne.
"In fulfilling my duty to the Soviet Motherland, I simultaneously pledge to honestly and faithfully serve the interests of the French people, on whose land I defend the interests of my Motherland. With all my strength I will support my French brothers in the fight against our common enemy - the German occupiers", - Ahmedia took the oath in the partisan detachment.
The name of Ahmed Michel became legendary among the French poppies - he, in the form of a German captain, led a partisan operation to save five hundred children of Resistance members taken out to Germany. The children were saved, and he, the wounded, was picked up by a German patrol in the field a day after a successful operation. Saved by the German form and documents of the officer, Ahmedia was sent for treatment to a German hospital. Discharged and for the heroism during the raid on the partisan train Ahmed was appointed ... commandant of the German garrison in the town of Albi, near Toulouse. The German commandant of the French city Ahmed Dzhabrailov, who graduated from the agricultural engineering school in Sheki in the fortieth year, stayed for eight months. He enjoyed authority among superiors and subordinates. The leadership of the French Resistance, led by General de Gaulle, closely monitored his activities as a German commandant. In his hands are dozens of threads leading to concentration camps and partisan underground. In large quantities, at the request of Commandant Albi, prisoners of war were taken out of concentration camps to repair urban roads, many of them fled to the forests. The commandant had to punish the careless guards and go to the concentration camp for a new party of prisoners of war. The merits of Ahmed Dzhabrailov before the French Resistance as commander of the German garrison of Albi were so high that they were admired by General de Gaulle. But it was impossible to test the patience of the Germans for so long, and by releasing another batch of captured Soviet soldiers, Ahmed fled to the partisans. The Germans for the capture of Dzhabrailov (Hargo) offered 10 000 marks!
The Military Cross, the Cross for Voluntary Service, the Military Medal of France - not every Frenchman won these high awards during the war years. The Azerbaijani youth received them from the hands of the legendary Charles de Gaulle and Maurice Thorez. Ahmed has one more very special reward - the Supreme Order of the Legion of Honor, which gives him, the soldier, the right to go to all the military parades of France ahead of the most distinguished generals. None of the Soviet generals and marshals had a French order of such rank. Besides G.K. Zhukov.
Victory parade. The military convoy is headed by Ahmed Jabrailov - Hero of France.
The war ended. Armed Michel works in the office of the President of the French Republic of de Gaulle. He is married to a Frenchwoman, they have two sons, a beautiful apartment in Paris. Ahmed - Ahmed Michel is one of the most respected members of the Union of Veterans of the Resistance. This is the support of the president, his guard, the elect. Just like Ahmed, his fighting friends in solid positions. In fact, the ruling party of France. Life is beautiful, Ahmed is only twenty-seven years old, he is a legend of the Resistance, he is invested with the confidence of General de Gaulle, he is the elite of France. In Dijon, there is a state-owned auto enterprise, named after him. Suddenly, in 1951, Armed Michel decides to become Ahmediya Dzhabrailov again and return to his native village of Ohud, which is five kilometers from Sheki. Persuading friends and officials do not help. Americans offer work and citizenship of the United States - this “resistance” - a born intelligence officer. The French government offers him the same Dijon plant in possession - all is useless. At parting, General de Gaulle hands his comrade-in-arms an honorary ticket - a permit for free travel on all types of transport in France. It was a privilege that only one person enjoyed in France - the president of the republic. I did not dissuade, we live in a free country, but an unusual gift meant that you can return at any time.
"In France, I often dream of our land, it swells, it is alive and blooming." No generous promises could not keep him in a foreign land. Ahmedia returned to his homeland, where a fierce surprise awaited him - the Soviet homeland loved to present them to the best of her sons. A ten-year exile to Siberia - this "high government award" was awarded to Ahmedia Jebrailov in his own country, where he was eagerly torn from hospitable France. Ten years of camps for being unconscious captured (meaning a traitor!), For having passed the hell of concentration camps (enlisted!), For finally having bravely fought the enemy (conspiracy slyly!).
After the "release" he returned to Sheki, became an agronomist. 30 hasn’t seen Ahmedia from any of his battle friends - the former convict has become "restricted to leave". And only when the Soviet Union visited Charles de Gaulle did Ahmedia be allowed to accept the invitation of the general - to visit France, to meet with his friends. The film "1000 Days of Struggle" was preserved in the State Film Archive of Azerbaijan, which captured Jabrailov's visit to France in 1975 year. It is impossible to watch touching scenes without tears.
"I really would like to know you right away. But I understand that appearance is not the same as it was. I can not imagine that your red curls turned white, that your heart is naughty. For me, you remained the same as then in the 1942 year. " (From a letter from friend Shampar Jabrailov).
"The liberation of the Bordeaux area is one of the hardest and dangerous battles. In my group I took only volunteers. Having bent over three deaths, waist-high in the swamp, we went to the enemy’s camp. Our sudden appearance caught the Germans by surprise and caused a wild panic. I I remember Paris in those days burning. What a pity that when we walked with a victory, you could not go with us, my friends, "- Ahmedia Jabrailov bowed to the ground tombstone, under which his comrades from the partisan detachment rested. Acacia bloomed nearby. Here was the meeting. He came long before the appointed hour, he was very worried: "Who else will come? Who of the battle friends has survived?"
"The liberation of the Bordeaux area is one of the hardest and dangerous battles. In my group I took only volunteers. Having bent over three deaths, waist-high in the swamp, we went to the enemy’s camp. Our sudden appearance caught the Germans by surprise and caused a wild panic. I I remember Paris in those days burning. What a pity that when we walked with a victory, you could not go with us, my friends, "- Ahmedia Jabrailov bowed to the ground tombstone, under which his comrades from the partisan detachment rested. Acacia bloomed nearby. Here was the meeting. He came long before the appointed hour, he was very worried: "Who else will come? Who of the battle friends has survived?"
Like thirty years ago, on Victory Day, they again drank champagne at this most memorable acacia.
General Charles de Gaulle gave a banquet in honor of the arrival of Hero of France Ahmed Dzhebrailov. And the first toast sounded in honor of the Azerbaijani: "The grateful France will never forget the great feat of the Soviet soldier."
Before leaving for France, Ahmedia took a handful of his native land with him. He scattered it on the graves of Azerbaijani partisans. Jeyran Khanum, Michael Huseynov, Veliy Veliyev, Feyzulla Kurbanov ... "My dear, accept a handful of native land." No one knows better the price of this land than he is - a plowman and a warrior Ahmedia Jabrailov.
In 1943, the anti-fascist movement in France was gaining momentum day by day. Azerbaijanis played a huge role in it. In March-April, 1944, an underground organization led by our compatriot Mirzahan Mammadov, released a large number of Azerbaijanis from captivity who immediately joined the partisan detachments.
In August 1944, the Azerbaijani underground fighters staged an uprising in the camp. It was supposed to coincide with the raid of the French partisans on the German garrison, but in the evening of August 15, the religious minister of the camp, the provocateur and agent of the fascist Gestapo, became aware of the upcoming uprising. All the ringleaders were arrested and after brutal torture sent in an open car to the place of execution. Several of them managed to untie their hands on the way. Having freed their comrades from the shackles, they engaged in an unequal battle with the fascists. Five of the underground: Mirzakhan Mamedov, Mirzali Mamedli, Hasan Aliyev, Kurban Mamedov and Pasha Jafarkhanli died. The rest managed to go to the partisans.
17 August 1944 was liberated by the French and Azerbaijani partisans from the Nazis in the city of Rodez.
On August 18, a group of Azerbaijani partisans commanded by Guseinrza Mamedov, together with the French, destroyed the German garrison in Pandezarl and liberated more than 2000 prisoners. The liberated prisoners of Azerbaijanis united in the Azerbaijani partisan regiment.
This regiment took an active part in the liberation of the cities of Larzakh, Courses, Maid, Nim and others.
Azerbaijani partisan detachments were in other countries occupied by the Germans!
1 Azerbaijani guerrilla unit in France,
commander Guseinrza Mamedov.
2 Azerbaijani partisan detachment "Ruska couple" in Italy
Commander Javad Hakimli
8 th Azerbaijani partisan detachment - "Red Partisan"
Commander Mamed Aliyev
Sabotage group of partisan detachment
"Truth" in Belarus
In 1952, the leader of the Italian Communists, Palmiro Tolyatti, arrived in Moscow at the XIX Congress of the CPSU. He told Stalin about the heroism of the Soviet soldier, manifested in the fight against fascism in the mountains of Italy and Yugoslavia - it was Azerbaijani Mehdi Huseynzade. Stalin instructed the special agencies to clarify his combat biography in order to perpetuate the memory of Mehdi Huseynzade. Despite such a high level of instruction, only by 1957 was all the information collected, and Mehdi Huseynzade was posthumously presented to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. History Mehdi Huseynzade requires a separate story and I will introduce you to her in the next article!
In far Italy there is such a city - Pistoia. Few people know that at one time Azerbaijanis also participated in his liberation from the Nazi invaders. Two of them - Mamed Bagirov and Mirza Shahverdiyev, fighters of the Soviet Army, who managed to escape from German captivity and join the anti-fascist resistance movement, were later awarded the highest Italian military award - the golden Garibaldi Star.
Bagirov was also awarded the Order * Glory * of Italy!
It should be noted that the son of Ahmed Dzhabrailov - the National Hero of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Dzhabrailov, died in Karabakh, defending the territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Ahmedia Jabrailov died on 10 on October 1994 of the year in Sheki as a result of a car accident - a truck knocked down a telephone booth containing a Resistance hero!
Ridiculous death of a hero!
Often when asked, Why did he leave Paris, he replied with a smile: - La fortune est une franche courtisane ((Fortune is a real courtesan)
Materials used:
http://az-love.com/viewtopic.php?id=262
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