En 1930 fue trasladado a Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, donde su hijo estudiaría en el Colegio Francés. Su característico mechón blanco en el pelo lo hizo ser fácilmente reconocible. Su nombre y el de su esposa aparecen en el listado de solicitantes de pasaportes de los miembros de la Colonia francesa que el consulado francés de esta población solicitaba a las autoridades españolas en 1932 y en las sucesivas hasta 1936. Comenzada la guerra civil, como el resto de los ingenieros franceses de la SMMP, a excepción del decano de los que trabajaban en la zona, Jean Montivert, tuvo que abandonar con su familia, tras la ocupación de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo por las fuerzas rebeldes, la España franquista como represalia al apoyo que la República Francesa estaba prestando al gobierno legal de la República Española. En 1938 vuelve a estar trabajando en Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, residiendo en su antiguo domicilio, el número 5 de la calle Dirección en el primer Barrio Francés.
Le corresponde vivir la difícil postguerra española como Ingeniero-jefe de la central térmica que la SMMP tenía en el primer Cerco Industrial peñarriblense, agravada por la ocupación nazi de Francia durante la inmediata Guerra Mundial, al término de la cual, en 1946, pudo ver como regresaba hecho un despojo humano, su hijo Andrés Basile, que a los 21 años fue detenido por la policía alemana en Francia y deportado en 1943 para ser internado en el campo de exterminio alemán de Buchenwald (Weimar). La convivencia durante la recuperación no fue nada fácil dado el carácter fuerte y autoritario de Basile y las antagónicas posiciones ideológicas entre ambos, por lo que no es que extrañar que el hijo profundamente antifascista abandonase en cuanto le fue posible el hogar paterno para buscar trabajo, aunque el azar permitió que estuviera en la casa familiar al fallecer repentinamente su padre el 26 de diciembre de 1948, a los sesenta y ocho años y poder asistir a su funeral en la parroquia de Santa Bárbara y a su inhumación posterior en el cementerio de San Jorge.
He was born in Balky, Zaporiz'Ka province -in present-day Ukraine- in April 1880, almost at the end of the reign of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. He studied engineering and was one of the so-called "white Russians" who went into exile in France after the triumph of the October Revolution of 1917 that overthrew the Empire of the czars. He was married to his compatriot Antonina Khmelevsky. He began to work for the Société minière et métallurgique de Peñarroya and was sent to Spain where he participated as an engineer in the completion of the electrified section between Conquista and Puertollano of the Peñarroya-Puertollano railway, a subsidiary company of the SMMP, settling in the latter population around 1920 -1, in which the second of his children, André, would be born.
In 1930 he was transferred to Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, where his son would study at the French School. The characteristic white streak in his hair made him easily recognizable. His name and that of his wife appear on the list of applicants for passports of the members of the French Colony that the French consulate of this population requested from the Spanish authorities in 1932 and in successive ones until 1936. The civil war began, as the The rest of the French engineers of the SMMP, he had to leave with his family, after the occupation of Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo by the rebel forces, Francoist Spain in retaliation for the support that the French Republic was lending to the legal government of the Spanish Republic. In 1938 he returned to work in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, residing in his old home, number 5 Dirección Street in the first French Quarter.
It is up to him to live through the difficult Spanish post-war period as Chief Engineer of the power station that SMMP had in the first Industrial Cerco, aggravated by the Nazi occupation of France. At the end of WWII, in 1946, he saw the return as a human remains of his son Andrés Basile, who was arrested by the German police in France and deported in 1943 to be interned in the German extermination camp of Buchenwald (Weimar). Coexistence during recovery was not easy at all given Basile's strong and authoritarian character and the antagonistic ideological positions between them, so it is not surprising that the deeply anti-fascist son left his father's home as soon as possible to look for work, although chance allowed him to be in the family home when his father died suddenly on December 26, 1948, at the age of sixty-eight and to be able to attend his funeral in the Santa Bárbara parish and his subsequent burial in the San Jorge cemetery .
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