Grand Orient of Belgium - Liberte Cherie, Obstinee (Paperback)

Chapters: Liberte Cherie, Obstinee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Freemasonry . Grand Lodge . Masonic Lodge . Masonic Lodge Officers . Grand Master . Prince Hall Freemasonry . Regular Masonic jurisdictions History of Freemasonry . Liberte cherie . Masonic manuscripts Liberte cherie was one of the very few masonic lodges founded within a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. On the 15 November 1943 - seven Belgian Freemasons and resistance fighters - founded the Masonic Lodge Loge Liberte cherie (French: "Beloved Liberty Lodge") inside Hut 6 of Emslandlager VII (Esterwegen). The name of the lodge was derived from La Marseillaise. The original seven Freemasons of Loge Liberte cherie were: and they later Initiated, Passed and Raised Brother Fernand Erauw, another Belgian. According to M. Franz Bridoux, former prisoner in Esterwegens hut N 6, the founding members of Loge Liberte Cherie were Messrs Rochat, Sugg, Hannecart, Hanson, Somerhausen, Degueldre and Miclotte. Messrs. De Schrijver and M. Story arrived well after the establishment of the Lodge and were not be founding members, but members only. Paul Hanson was elected Master. The Brethren met for Lodge Work in Hut 6 around a table, which was otherwise used for cartridge sorting. A Catholic Priest stood watch, so that the Brethren could hold their meetings; and protected their secrecy. Hut 6 was used for foreign Nacht und Nebel, (German: "Night and Fog"), prisoners. The Emslandlagercamps were a group of camps whose history is represented by a permanent exhibition in the Documentation and Information Centre in Papenburg. Altogether 15 camps were established on the Netherlands border, with central administration in Papenburg. Luc Somerhausen described Erauws Intitiation, etc., a...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=600068