Some photos posted by Anna Gauthe in Facebook (Varen un Village en Images) of the railway station at Lexos have provoked some memories of the German occupation and the arrest and deportation of Doctor Marcel Francois Ringuet. The doctor arrived in Lexos in 1907 and continued to practice until 1944 when he was arrested on 1st June 1944. Sent to the collection centre in Compiegne he was loaded onto a transport for Dachau and along with over 500 others died en route from suffocation.
Villagers gathered to inaugurate a memorial stone in July 1946 which stands beside the church in Lexos.
Some discussion has arisen about the extent to which the station was used as a staging post for deportations and with few survivors in the area now some definitive details would be interesting.
More general interest history of Lexos and the area can be found in Jean-Paul Marion's "Memoire de ..Lexos" in the link below:
https://milhars.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/lexos.pdf
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