The resistant Anise Postel-Vinay, deported to Germany with Germaine Tillion during the Second World War, died of old age on Sunday in Paris. She was 97 years old, we learned this Tuesday from her family.
"These resistant women had extremely rich lives, their fight did not stop in 1945 and our role is to continue it," said Geneviève Zamansky-Bonnin, secretary general of the Association Germaine Tillion and close to the deceased.
We lost a great woman today. A remarkable woman at all times. This woman was one of the last to be able to remind us of the horrors that war can bring, she breathed happiness, her smile was a weapon. Rest in peace Anise Postel-Vinay. pic.twitter.com/7jc1TMMfvR
- Hana. G📢 (@HanaSayAloha) May 28, 2020Arrested by the Gestapo in 1942
Born June 12, 1922 in Paris, Anise Postel-Vinay became a teenager in the Resistance, encouraged by her mother, and provided military information within the Gloria SMH (His Majesty Service) network, according to the Musée de la Résistance et de the Deportation of Besançon.
In August 1942, she was arrested by the Gestapo for acts of resistance, when she was only 19 years old. First incarcerated in the prison of Health then in Fresnes, she is then deported by train in October 1943 to the concentration camp of Ravensbrück, in Germany, alongside the resistant Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, niece of the General.
“I was very depressed because I did not have the courage to escape. In the passenger train where we were seated, Germaine made me speak and allowed me to forget my feeling of cowardice, "she confided in 2015 to Le Pèlerin magazine .
"I was 20, Germaine 35, she pulled me from the distress that threatened me," she also said in 2014 to AFP, during a presidential tribute to the Resistance. "We lived in terror, distress, in this place of death," she said in particular about the deportation.
#Disappearance of Anise Postel-Vinay, resistant and deported to Ravensbrück, where she met Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle. We send our condolences to his family, in particular to his daughter Claire Andrieu, member of the Foundation's bodies.https: //t.co/qKr24Y14tJ
- Shoah Foundation (@Fondation_Shoah) May 28, 2020A book in 2015 on his daily deportation
She was released on April 23, 1945 by the Swedish Red Cross. At the Liberation, she engaged with Germaine Tillion in writing the history of the deportation. On June 6, 1946, she married the resistant André Postel-Vinay, a senior civil servant with whom she would have four children.
Anise Postel-Vinay, whose family was from Doubs, worked hard to donate the archives of Germaine Tillion to the Resistance and Deportation Museum in Besançon, where she will remain "one of our most loyal witnesses", according to The direction.
"In 2009, she came to deposit the operetta manuscript clandestinely written in Ravensbrück by Germaine Tillion in October 1944 The Verfügbar in Hell, one of the masterpieces of our collection", underlined the direction of the museum.
The resistant published in 2015 with Laure Adler Vivre , an account of her daily life in deportation.
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