baruchobramowitz:Women of the Jewish Resistance in France.(left to right)Mila Racine, a member of th
baruchobramowitz:Women of the Jewish Resistance in France.(left to right)Mila Racine, a member of the Zionist Youth Movement (MJS) which worked primarily to sneak Jewish children out of occupied France. She was apprehended trying to sneak a group of 32 Jewish children and five Jewish adults into Switzerland. She and her charges were all sent to prison in Annemasse. She was kept there before being sent to Ravensbrück, never disclosing that she was Jewish. She died during an Allied bombing raid in March of 1945. She was 25.Marianne Cohn, also a member of the MJS. After Mila Racine’s arrest, Cohn was moved from her job providing resistance agents with false papers to escorting Jewish children out of France. She was caught with a group of 28 Jewish children while trying to get to the Swiss border. She, the children, and another resistance agent with them were all sent to the prison in Annemasse, France. Though she was given an opportunity to escape, she refused, saying that it was her duty to stay with the children. She was tortured to death by the special forces in Ville la Grand in July,1944. She was 21.In addition to the dozens of Jewish children they successfully helped escape France, all of the children who had been arrested with these two women survived the war.(Pictures from The Jewish Resistance in France (1940-1944) by Anny Latour, 1970. Information from the same book, the Jewish Women’s Archive, and Yad Vashem.) -- source link