Simone Michel-Lévy

Simone Michel - Lévy ( born January 19, 1906 in Chaussin, Jura, † April 13, 1945 in Flossenbiirg in Bavaria) was a French resistance fighter. She is one of six women who were appointed by decree of 26 September 1945 by General Charles de Gaulle to the Companions of the Liberation.

Life

Her father was a plasterer. After graduation, she moved with her ​​parents to Chauny in the department of Aisne. There she worked in the postal and telecommunications management.

After the German attack on France and the armistice with Hitler's Germany Simone Michel - Lévy joined in December 1940 of the Resistance. While working in the Resistance, she participated in various cover names: Emma, Françoise, Madame Royale, Mademoiselle Flaubert, Madame Bertrand. In 1941, she was the French selection exam for editors and got a job at the Central Administration for phone being in Paris, where she dealt with the conversion of telephone communications. For Simone Michel - Lévy was a strategically important place, as it was able to build a secret information agency of the Resistance, which mainly included the Normandy. The developed thanks to their activities radio network was also helpful in Operation Neptune. Simone Michel - Lévy also organized a postal service to England and headed telephone and telegraphic communications to, so that they could be made ​​available to the resistance groups. She let the phone Material resistance groups come and sabotaged the recruitment of forced laborers.

On November 5, 1943 Simone Michel - Lévy was arrested by the Gestapo. Although she was tortured, she gave no names award. On April 13, 1943, she was found hanged in the concentration camp Flossenbiirg. You and two other prisoners were accused of sabotaging the equipment for the production of ammunition for the work detail Holleischen.

Since 2006, wearing a square in the 7th arrondissement of Paris her name. A commemorative plaque was erected in her honor in the entrance hall of the research center of France Telecom in Issy -les -Moulineaux. A holiday center of France Telecom in Trébeurden on the Côtes -d'Armor bears her name.

Award

• Ordre de la Libération