De Gaulle, Geneviève (1921–2002)

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De Gaulle, Geneviève (1921–2002)

French resistance fighter. Name variations: Genevieve Anthonioz; Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz; Geneviève Anthonioz-de Gaulle. Born in 1921; died Feb 14 2002, in Paris, France; dau. of Xavier de Gaulle, older brother of Charles de Gaulle (president of France); m. Bernard Anthonioz (Resistance fighter), 1946 (died 1994); children: 4.

At 19, following the Nazi occupation of Paris, joined the French underground (1940); arrested (1943), spent 6 months in a French prison, then was deported to Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany; after the war, helped establish the Association for Deported and Imprisoned Resistance Fighters; was also a witness in the trial of Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (1987); led the French humantarian organization, ATD Quart Monde.

See also memoir, The Dawn of Hope: A Memoir of Ravensbruck and Beyond.

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