Postel-Vinay, Anise (1928–)
Postel-Vinay, Anise (1928–)
French resistance fighter. Name variations: Anise Girard; called Danielle. Born Anise Girard, 1928, in Paris, France; m. André Postel-Vinay.
Mother began to take in Catholic and Jewish refugees fleeing Germany (1933); with family, left Paris to live in Rennes; studied for MA in German; was 18 when Germans invaded Paris (1940); joined resistance (1942); arrested same day as her father (1943); imprisoned at La Santé in Paris, then Fresnes; traveled in same passenger car to Ravensbrück as Germaine Tillion (Oct 21, 1943), becoming close friends; managed to hide from transports to Auschwitz (1945); testified as a key witness to some of the medical horrors perpetrated on concentration camp inmates.
See also (film) Sisters in Resistance.
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