The burial of Litman Nadler, a Resistance Jewish doctor from Toulouse nicknamed “Doctor Madeleine” is coming to an end. The Toulouse Métropole Council decided on Thursday to grant him a free license in perpetuity at the Terre-Cabade cemetery.

An undoubtedly preponderant role in the Toulouse Resistance

The tomb of Litman Nadler, born in Romania, could be identified thanks to the work of the association the French Souvenir which lists the graves of heroes who died for France. This medical student participated in the National Liberation Movement in connection with the network of the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse. Arrested in June 1944 in Toulouse, he was imprisoned in Saint-Michel prison then deported before being shot at Camp de Souge, in Gironde, during the summer of 1944 at the age of 33. In October, after the Liberation, the regional leader of the National Liberation Movement declared Litman Nadler as a member of his group. His body was repatriated to Toulouse, and buried in Terre-Cabade after a ceremony on the Place du Capitole with other resistance fighters from Toulouse.

His daughter Monique has always fought for her father to be recognized. Litman Nadler was recognized “Mort Pour la France” in 2018, then posthumously received the Cross of Volunteer Resistance Fighter in 2019 and the French Resistance Medal in October 2020.

“This free concession is the symbol of our gratitude. Because a people who forgets their past condemn themselves to relive it, we remember!” said Jean-Luc Moudenc, President of Toulouse Métropole.