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Tue Nov 5, 2019, 01:22 AM Nov 2019

(Jewish Group) Yvette Lundy, French Resistance member who helped Jewish families, dies at 103

Yvette Lundy, a member of the French Resistance who provided false identification papers to Jewish families, has died. She was 103.

Lundy, who also survived two Nazi concentration camps, died in the northern French town of Epernay on Sunday.

She would go on to become a schoolteacher and also worked at the town hall.

Lundy joined the Resistance at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of France, the French news agency AFP reported. She provided fake papers to Jewish families and escaped prisoners of war.

She was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944, when she was 28. Lundy was imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later at Buchenwald. Later she later was assigned to a Kommando slave labor unit near Weimar and was liberated by the Russian army in April 1945.



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(Jewish Group) Yvette Lundy, French Resistance member who helped Jewish families, dies at 103 (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2019 OP
Actually got over 30 recs in GD yesterday, nice to see. JudyM Nov 2019 #1
RIP LeftishBrit Nov 2019 #2
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