List of inmates of Saint-Gilles Prison

Saint-Gilles Prison in Brussels, Belgium, has been the site of many incarcerations since its opening in 1884. ^[1] During World Wars I and II, some prisoners who were held there, both civilians and captured members of the Belgian Resistance, were taken to the National Shooting Range (French: Tir national) to be executed. ^[2]

World War I

A–D
Joseph Baeckelmans	Philippe Baucq	Louise de Bettignies [3]	Mathieu Bodson	Léon Boiteux
Louis Bril	Joseph Van der Cammen	Edith Cavell [4]	Adelin Colon	Jean-Baptiste Corbisier
Paul Denis	Joseph Delsaut	Lucien Descamps	Jules Descamps	François Dufrasne
E–H
Alexandre Franck	Louis Gille	Emile Gressier	Oscar Hernalsteens
I–P
Léon Jacquet	Prosper Kricke	Georges Kuge	Louis Lefebvre	Jules Legay
Dominique Mertens	Jules Mohr	Louis Neyts	Gabrielle Petit [5] [6]	Pierre Poels
François Mus
Q–T
Arthur Roland	Charles Simonet	Emile Stevigny
U–Z
Georges Uytebrouck	François Vergauwen

• 
  Louise de Bettignies
• 
  Edith Cavell
• 
  Gabrielle Petit

World War II

A–D
Anne-Marie Basch	André Bertulot	Élise Binard	Jean Burgers	Marina Chafroff
Aimé Dandoy	Claire Duysburgh
E–H
Maximilien de Furstenberg	Andrée De Jongh	Louise de Landsheere	Andrée Dumon	Abraham Fogelbaum
Arnaud Fraiteur	Jean Franklemon	Walter Ganshof van der Meersch	Adelin Hartveld	Arthur Haulot
Marie-Louise Henin	Pierre-Jean Herbinger
I–P
Albert Jonnart	Maurice Kiek	Régine Krochmal	Simonne Lehouck-Gerbehaye	Robert Lentz
Alexandre Livchitz	Mikhail Makarov [7]	Valentine Ployart	Zofia Poznańska [8] [9]
Q–T
Alfred Steux
U–Z
Fernande Volral	Berthe Warret	Johann Wenzel [10]	Émile Witmeur

• 
  Andrée de Jongh
• 
  Andrée Dumon
• 
  Fernande Volral
• 
  Maximilian von Fürstenberg

References

Citations

1. "Inventaire des archives de la prison de Saint-Gilles - Archives de l'État en Belgique". www.arch.be (in French). Retrieved 28 September 2023.
2. "Enclos des Fusillés – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 9 February 2025.
3. "Louise de Bettignies 1880-1918". Chemins de Mémoire. Paris: Ministère des Armées. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
4. Hoehling 1957, p. 1320.
5. "Gabrielle Petit 1893-1916". Chemins de Mémoire. Paris: Ministère des Armées. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
6. Pickles 2016, p. 198.
7. Brysac 2002, p. 314.
8. Dallin 1955, p. 171.
9. Tyas 2017.
10. Tyas 2017, p. 91–92.

Bibliography

• Brysac, Shareen Blair (2002). Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-992388-5.
• Dallin, David J. (1955). Soviet Espionage. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-598-41349-9.
• Hoehling, A. A. (1957). "The Story of Edith Cavell". The American Journal of Nursing. 57 (10): 1320–1322. doi:10.2307/3461516. JSTOR   3461516.
• Pickles, K. (2016). Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell. Basingstoke, New York: Springer. ISBN   978-0-230-28608-5.
• Tyas, Stephen (2017). SS-Major Horst Kopkow: From the Gestapo to British Intelligence. Fonthill Media. pp. 91–92. GGKEY:JT39J4WQW30.

External links

• Inventory of the archives of the Saint-Gilles prison, 1885-1991