Simone Michel-Levy

Simone Michel-Levy is resistant a French, born the January 19th 1906 with Chaussin, and hung the April 13rd 1945 with the camp of Flossenbürg.

Its pseudonyms were numerous: Emma, Francoise, Mrs Royale, Miss Flaubert or Mrs Bertrand.

She is one of the 6 women Compagnon of the Release (decree of the September 26th 1945).

Resistant to the postal and telecommunications authorities

Entered the administration of postal and telecommunications authorities in 1924, received with the contest of the writers in 1941, Simone Michel-Levy is named with the Regional management of the telephones, where it deals with the " commutation" telephone calls, in Paris. It is a strategic place, which it uses to make a clandestine agency of information, in particular towards Normandy, where its activities allowed, establishment of a network of radios which was useful at the time of the unloading. Its resistant activity is not limited to that. It organizes a system of routing of the mail towards England, and diverts telegraphic and telephone material for the resistant organizations. She also sabotages departures for STO.

She is stopped on November 5th, 1943 by Gestapo. Without to have given any name, it is off-set with the concentration camp of Ravensbrück, then with Flossenbürg, where it tries to organize a rising against the guards of the camp This is why it is hung little before the victory of the Allies.

sources

Messages of the postal and telecommunications authorities, n° 342 , December 1984: " Forty years after the history half-opens. Agents of the postal and telecommunications authorities and Résistance."

See too

Georges Delfanne

External bonds

Biography on the site about the Release

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