Marianne Cohn, member of the Mouvement de la Jeunesse Sioniste and Jewish French resistant, also involved in the rescue of Jewish children and young people.  In May, 1944, she was arrested along with 28 Jewish children under her care and interned.  She refused to co-operate with a plan hatched by her comrades to rescue her because it might endanger the children.  Following threats against the Gestapo agents concerned from the Resistance, the children were rescued.  However, Marianne was not; she was tortured by the notorious Lyon Gestapo and subsequently murdered.  With sadness, JR.

A Jewish Resistance Marianne.

Margot Cohn, a member of the French Jewish Resistance in France, who specialised in hiding Jewish children and, if possible, transporting them to jurisdictions out of harm's way (or at least less dangerous).  Many resistants, Jewish and otherwise, paid for their lives for taking part in such activities.  Best regards, JR.

Jewish Resistance, France.

Madeleine Dreifus, child psychologist and French Jewish resistant, also involved in the rescue of Jewish children.  In 1943, attempting to rescue a Jewish child from a predicted Gestapo raid on an institution for the deaf that was used by her organisation as a transit/cover for children in her care, she was arrested and spent an extended period in the Bergen-Belsen transit camp.  For some reason, she was not deported to the East, and was freed when the camp was liberated by British forces in 1945.  She was awarded the Medaille de la Resistance in 1947, and went on to enjoy a distinguished career as a psychologist.  Best regards, JR.