René Joyeuse

René Joyeuse ( born January 17, 1920 as René Veuve in Zurich, † June 12, 2012 in Lake Placid ) was a Swiss- American resistance fighter and physician.

René Veuve spent most of his childhood in Alsace. In 1944, he jumped in with the pseudonym Joyeuse as a parachute agent of the Office of Strategic Services over from France (Operation Sussex ). After its successful use in France, he fought for the French army in Germany. He was the first officer of the Allied forces who entered the German concentration camp of Bergen -Belsen. After that, he was orderly in the Indochina war and from 1950 studied medicine at the Sorbonne.

In the United States he married in 1955 his wife Suzanne G. Bouffon. The couple had two sons.

René Joyeuse was buried the first Swiss to Arlington National Cemetery on March 29, 2013.