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- One of the most active members of the Resistance was Lucie Aubrac. From 1940 to 1944, she participated in raids, arranged contacts, delivered patriots from the Gestapo, and organized their escape from France. Aubrac specialized in organizing prison escapes, three of which included her résistant husband.
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Aug 23, 2016 · Meet the history teacher-turned-Resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo and rescued her husband (more than once) from captivity.
- Sarah Pruitt
French Resistance leader during World War II who helped found the powerful Libération Sud and was responsible for numerous escapes. Name variations: Lucie Bernard, Lucie Samuel.
Sep 22, 2016 · Lucie, who was by then pregnant with their second child, met the notorious Klaus Barbie. She pretended to be a wealthy society girl and tried to persuade him to release Raymond. She tried again soon afterwards but she was told that Raymond was to be executed.
May 26, 2024 · Lucie Aubrac, a history teacher and committed Communist, co-founded the Resistance group Libération-sud with her husband Raymond. In addition to participating in sabotage operations and distributing anti-Nazi propaganda, Aubrac orchestrated a daring rescue of her husband and 15 other Resistance members from Gestapo custody.
- Sarah Roller
- Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Born in Marseille and educated in Shanghai, Fourcade met a former French military intelligence officer, codenamed Navarre, in 1936 and was recruited by him in 1939 to work for a network of spies, later known as the ‘Alliance’.
- Lucie Aubrac. Born in 1912, Lucie Aubrac was a brilliant history teacher and committed supporter of communism. She and her husband Raymond were some of the first members of the French Resistance, forming a group called La Dernière Colonne, better known as Libération-sud.
- Josephine Baker. Better known as an iconic entertainer of the Roaring Twenties, Baker was living in Paris at the outbreak of war in 1939. She was quickly recruited by the Deuxième Bureau as an ‘honourable correspondent’, gathering intelligence, information and contacts at parties and events she attended.
- Rose Valland. Valland was a respected art historian: in 1932, she began working in the curatorial department of the Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 1941, following the German occupation of France, the Jeu de Paume became a central storage and sorting depot for artworks looted by the Nazis from assorted public and private art collections.
In 1996, Lucie was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government for her heroism during World War II. The 1997 film Lucie Aubrac, which stars Carole Bouquet as Lucie, is about her efforts to rescue her husband. She herself endorsed the film.
Lucie Samuel, born Bernard and known as Lucie Aubrac, was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. A history teacher by occupation, she earned a history agrégation in 1938, a highly uncommon achievement for a woman at that time.
