A Train in Winter (50 page)

Madeleine Galesloot.
Belgium. With her Dutch husband, worked with Underground printing presses in Paris. Died of dysentery in March 1943, at the age of 34. Her husband was executed by the Germans.

Yvonne Gallois.
Eure-et-Loir. Cook in Paris when involved with young man who took part in an armed attack on the Germans. No one witnessed her death. She was 21.

Suzanne Gascard.
Rueil-Malmaison. Married young, had a daughter, and became wet nurse to a baby she adopted after her mother disappeared. Kept and distributed tracts until denounced by a neighbour. Died of dysentery at the end of February 1943 at the age of 41. Posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm leaf and the Medal of the Resistance.

Laure Gatet.
Dordogne. A pharmacologist collecting information for the Resistance. Died of dysentery, aged 29, on 15 February 1943.

Raymonde Georges.
Transported weapons, supplied partisans, liaison officer for the armed Resistance. (See
SAMPAIX
.) Caught when revolver fell out of knapsack on train. Died at 26 of dysentery in March 1943.

Sophie Gigand
, and her daughter
Andrée.
Aisne. Together with husband and children, Sophie stored weapons and distributed tracts. Sophie was caught in ‘the race’ on 10 February 1943. She was 45. No one witnessed 21-year-old Andrée’s death. Husband and son survived deportation.

Germaine Girard.
Paris. Nothing known of her life except that she died in March 1943 in the
Revier
, at the age of 39.

Renée Girard.
Paris. Bookkeeper, parliamentary secretary and journalist. Militant communist and agent for the National Front. Died—no known cause—end of April 1943. She was 58. An orphan, she had no family and there was no one to notify.

Olga Godefroy.
Nancy. Member of large communist family of resisters. (See
DORIDAT
.) Died aged 37 on 26 February 1943 after
kapo
broke her spinal column with a cudgel.

Marcelle Gourmelon.
Paris. Became agent for armed Resistance as kitchen worker in Luftwaffe camp. Stored weapons and explosives. Died of typhus in July 1943 at the age of 19. Her mother, arrested with her and sent to Romainville, was freed.

Cica Goutayer.
Allier. Helped resisters cross demarcation line near Tours. Denounced by
BIBAULT
. Died in
Revier
at the beginning of April 1943, at the age of 42. Husband died in deportation. Left 16-year-old son.

Jeanne Grandperret.
Jura. Painter on enamel. Working with husband in Paris, took in escapers sent to them by Resistance network. Died in
Revier
on 1 March 1943, at the age of 46.

Claudine Guérin.
Seine-Inférieure. Schoolgirl. Liaison for local Resistance. Died of typhus on 25 April 1943, shortly before her 18th birthday.

Aminthe Guillon
and her daughter-in-law
Yvette.
Charente. Family of farmers, communists, members of the FTP. Stored weapons. Denounced by Vincent. (See
VALINA
.) Aminthe was caught in ‘the race’ on 10 February 1943; she was 58. Yvette, aged 32, died of gangrene on 16 March 1943. Prosper, Aminthe’s husband, and Jean, her son were executed by the Germans.

Jeanne Guyot.
Argenteuil. Husband, who had printing press, printed anti-German tracts. Jeanne, not politically active, was arrested with him. She was 32. No one witnessed her death. Husband executed with group of printers. Left a boy of nine, a girl of eight.

Adrienne Hardenberg.
Saint-Quentin. Cutter, married to a photoengraver who worked for the clandestine
L’Humanité
. She was 36. No one witnessed her death. Husband executed by the Germans. Left a daughter, aged 13.

Hélène Hascoët.
Finistère. Dressmaker in Paris. Sheltered Jewish friends. Died of infected lesions, dehydration and dysentery at the age of 32 on 9 March 1943.

Violette Hebrard.
Paris. Worked for an insurance company. With husband, militant communist, printed clandestine
L’Humanité
. No one witnessed death, in April 1943. She was 33. Husband died in deportation.

Lucette Herbassier.
Tours. Kept bar where she hid clandestine publications. Died of haemorrhage, at the age of 28. Left 10-year-old son.

Jeanne Herschel.
Grew up in Switzerland, England and the US. No Resistance activities known; concealed fact that she was Jewish. No one witnessed death in the middle of February 1943. She was 31.

Jeanne Hervé.
Côtes-du-Nord. Housekeeper, waitress. Denounced Jews and black marketeers and finally taken in by police. Ostracised by other women. Died, at the age of 42, in the middle of February 1943, of acute nephritis.

Marguerite Houdart.
Verdun. With her printer husband in Paris, sold paper to Resistance, but were not active politically themselves. Caught in round-up of printers and husband executed. Died on 10 May 1943, probably of typhus, her body devoured by rats. Left 14-year-old daughter.

Jeanne Humbert.
Blénod-les-Toul. Husband took part in sabotage attacks on the railways and Jeanne transported the weapons. Died, at the end of March 1943, badly beaten by an SS guard, then sent to the gas chamber. She was 28. She left two children, aged three and five.

Anna Jacquat.
Luxembourg. With French husband, ran a cafe near the station of Charleville, and worked with Marcelle
FUGLESANG
supplying provisions to escaped prisoners. No one witnessed her death. She was 46 and left a son of 16 and a daughter of 14.

Germaine Jaunay.
Indre-et-Loire. Lived at the border between the two zones and helped resisters cross the demarcation line. Denounced along with niece (see
DENIAU
). Christened by other women ‘the philosopher’ because always even tempered. Died in the
Revier
on 5 April 1943, at the age of 44. She left four children under 15.

Marie-Louise Jourdan.
Paris. Kept a dry-cleaning shop which became meeting place for Resistance. Caught in the PICAN round-up. Died of typhus in April 1943, aged 44.

Suzanne Juhem.
Geneva. Raised in Paris and became a dressmaker. Involved with militant communist, but not believed to be political herself. Died of dysentery in March 1943 at the age of 32.

Irina Karchewska.
Poland. Emigrated to France with husband in 1920s and kept a restaurant-grocery in Paris. Hid Poles trying to reach London. Died of dysentery, at the age of 43, on 30 April 1943.

Léa Kerisit.
Vienne. Nurse, involved with chain helping prisoners of war attempting to reach free zone. Bludgeoned to death in April 1943 at the age of 47. She left three grown-up sons.

Karolina Konefal
and
Anna Nizinska.
Two Polish peasant girls who arrived in Paris shortly before their arrest. Suspected of belonging to the Monika network. Karolina died in March 1943, having been beaten, thrown into a stream and soaked by an SS officer; she was 22. There were no witnesses to 25-year-old Anna’s death.

Eugénie Korzeniowska.
Lublin. Came to France in 1931 to teach children of Polish miners. Probably connected to the Monika network. Caught in ‘the race’ on 10 February 1943. She had bad hip problems and walked with a limp. She was 41.

Marguerite Kotlerewsky.
Secretary on
France-Soir
from the Auvergne when married a Russian émigré Jew. Denounced. Died on 26 February 1943, at the age of 40, having lost all will to live when her daughter Gisèle, deported with her, was whipped by Taube and died. Left another daughter. Son, Léon, also deported, never returned.

Lina Kuhn.
Paris. Member of the Johnny network (see
ALIZON
). Died at about the age of 35 at the beginning of March 1943, probably of typhus.

Georgette Lacabanne.
A dressmaker from Bordeaux who sheltered resisters. Died in the
Revier
on 8 March 1943, at the age of 32. She left an 11-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son.

Madeleine Laffitte.
Maine-et-Loire. Worked in a spinning mill. Became liaison agent for the Front National and was arrested during the round-up of the CADRAS network. Died of dysentery, at the age of 29 at the end of November 1948.

Gisele Laguesse.
Poitiers. With her husband, a teacher, acted as liaison between the Front National leadership and the regions, printed tracts, transcribed broadcasts from London. Died of dysentery and from being beaten on 11 March 1943 at the age of 28. She said goodbye to her husband when he was taken from Romainville and shot.

Léa Lambert.
Ardennes. Cook and housekeeper in Charleville and helped Marcelle
FUGLESANG
smuggle escaped prisoners to Switzerland (see also
JACQUAT
). Died soon after arrival, in the middle of March 1943 at the age of 50. On hearing the news, her husband cursed the Germans, was overheard, arrested, deported and died in Dachau.

Fabienne Landy.
Loire-et-Cher. Stenographer and member of the Communist Party, she worked for the Front National and typed tracts. Died of a lethal injection of formol after blisters spread and became infected on 25 February 1943. She was 21.

Berthe Lapeyrade
and her sister-in-law
Charlotte Lescure.
Lot-et-Garonne. With their husbands, stored propaganda material and sheltered
résistants
. Berthe died in the marshes at the beginning of March 1943, at the age of 47; Charlotte was caught in ‘the race’ on 10 February 1943, but her friends managed to save her. A few weeks later, she was beaten to death. She was 40. Both their husbands were also killed.

Suzanne Lasne.
Paris. Drawn into the Resistance with Louise Magadur and worked for the FTP. Arrested with the names of Jeanne
ALEXANDRE
, Marie-Louise
COLOMBAIN
and Angele
MERCIER
, all of whom were caught in the net. Died in the
Revier
, consumed with guilt, on 14 March 1943. She was 19.

Marcelle Laurillou.
Indre-et-Loire. Part of a Resistance chain of
passeurs
in Amboise. Died of dysentery around 20 April 1943 at the age of 28. She left two children, aged seven and nine.

Louise Lavigne.
Vienne. Worked in a factory making clogs. When her brother was arrested, she and her husband took over his work for the Front National in Poitiers. Beaten to death with a revolver by an SS officer around 25 March 1943. Left two daughters, aged seven and two. Husband executed; brother died in Auschwitz. She was 39.

Lucienne Lebreton.
Paris. Concierge. Denounced as a communist. Died at the end of March 1943, in the
Revier
, at the age of 38.

Angèle Leduc.
Roubaix. Worked as cashier in her husband’s butcher shop in Paris. Probably denounced for listening to Radio London. Died from oedema, her legs so badly swollen that she could not walk, in March 1943, at the age of 51.

Elisabeth Le Port.
Lorient. Teacher and leader in the Front National. Denounced by a pupil who saw the tracts and stencils on her desk. Died at the age of 23 on 14 March 1943 from dysentery.

Marguerite Lermite.
Nantes. Teacher. With her husband, distributed clandestine tracts. There were no witnesses to her death at the end of February 1943. She left a four-year-old son. Her husband also died in Auschwitz, probably gassed.

Marie Lesage.
Doville. Ran a cafe on the outskirts of Cherbourg and hid Resistance fighters. No witness to her death early in February 1943. She was 45.

Sophie Licht.
Moselle. Married to a Jew, and possibly denounced for listening to the BBC. Died at the age of 37 of typhus. Her husband was shot by the SS during the evacuation of Buchenwald. Her children, 10-year-old Denise and four-year-old Jean-Paul, were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz and gassed on arrival.

Yvonne Llucia.
Oran. Very little known about her beyond the fact that she died, at the age of 32, in March 1943. Her mother refused to accept her death.