Marianne Cohn

Biography

Marianne Cohn is the elder one of a couple of German intellectuals of ascent Jewish, but detached from the religion Jew and not very related to the Jewish community of Germany. The Cohn family leaves for the Spain in 1934. Marianne Cohn and its sister are sent to Paris in 1936, and their parents join them in 1938, following the Spanish Civil war.

After the release of the Second world war, the parents of Marianne Cohn are interned with the Camp of Gurs, because German citizens. Itself and his/her sister are dealt with by the Éclaireurs Jews of France, and discover on this occasion the cultural and pertaining to worship practice of the Judaïsme.

In 1942, Marianne Cohn adheres to the Youth movement Zionist (MJS) and becomes the secretary of Simon Levitt which it had followed since Moissac. She takes part in the clandestine actions of rescue which organizes this organization for the Jewish children of France, threatened of deportation, within the network Physical education . Installed with Grenoble, the network hides the children, then discreetly sends them in Suisse. Stopped in 1943 with Jacques Klausner, and imprisoned with Nice, it is slackened three months later. It is during this first detention that it would have written its famous poem I will betray tomorrow.

Initially simple assistant charged to supervise the children before their departure for the Swiss , Marianne Cohn integrates the team of the conveyers in January 1944, following Mila Racine stopped on October 21st, 1943. Each week, two or three groups, cash each one until a score children resulting from all the southern zone, clandestinely cross the border, after being last by Lyon and Annecy.

Marianne Cohn is stopped on May 31st, 1944, close to Annemasse, with a group of twenty-eight children, and is imprisoned with the Hôtel Pax, become a prison of the Gestapo. In spite of the Torture, she does not speak. Its network proposes to him to make it escape, but she refuses, fearing reprisals on the children.

In the night from July 7th to 8th 1944, the Gestapo of Lyon sends a team to Annemasse, to leave their jail six prisoners, of which Marianne Cohn, and to assassinate them, in fact with blows of boots and shovels. The mayor of Annemasse succeeded in, on the other hand, saving the children.

The elementary school and the nursery school of the downtown area of Annemasse bear its name, just as a school of Berlin.

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