APPENDIX
The list of the dead is divided into two parts. The first, totalling fifty-two, comprises the people who could be identified. The second has 585 names. These were the people whose remains were mutilated and burnt to such an extent that identification was impossible. The two lists make a total of 637. Five more names were subsequently added. They were people who had disappeared and were assumed to be in Oradour at the time. The domicile of each person is where he or she was living at the time, so that refugees who had arrived some time earlier are treated as residents. Some of the refugees can be identified by their names, e.g. Espinoza, Lorente, Masachs, Serano (Spanish), Kanzler, Neumeyer (Alsatian).
One pities the Texier children aged four, two and one, respectively, whose Christian names were not known. Also the anonymous, ‘M Picat’s servant.’ Monsieur Picat himself is the only one in the list bearing the title of ‘businessman’. Many of the people are described as horticulturists or market gardeners. The SS were probably told of this by their local informers and included tracked vehicles in their convoy to run over the fields and capture the workers. Other rural occupations are blacksmith, wheelwright, sabot maker, well digger, roadman and pedlar. Many of the women were glovemakers probably on contract work in their homes for a firm in Saint Junien the glove-making centre. Yvonne Brandy is described as ‘station master’ and one can only assume she was in charge of the tiny tramway station. The Milord family were mainly associated with the hotel trade and their name lives on in a hotel in the new village. The list of occupations is incomplete. Presumably many were not known when the list was compiled, but most without occupation were old people and children.
It will be noticed how whole families were wiped out – father, mother, children and grandparents. There are, for instance, eighteen Bardets and twelve Thomases.