Claire Paccalin

2 weeks ago | france24.com | Claire Paccalin

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Eighty years ago, on April 29, 1945, the last SS guards fled the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, and on April 30 the vanguard of the Soviet Army arrived to liberate the camp.

2 weeks ago | france24.com | Claire Paccalin

"Ce n'est qu'un jour, au détour d'un déjeuner, qu'elle me l'a raconté. Alors j'ai réalisé qu'elle était une héroïne de guerre."La grand-tante de Gwen Strauss, Hélène Podliasky, a fait partie d'un groupe de neuf femmes qui ont réussi à échapper à une marche de la mort nazie et à rejoindre les troupes américaines au printemps 1945, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Sept d'entre elles étaient membres de la Résistance française et deux de la Résistance néerlandaise.

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Claire Paccalin

‘Unwavering friendship’: The true story of nine women who escaped a Nazi death marchLeft: French women who were part of the Resistance head home after their release from Ravensbrück. Right: Forced labour at the Nazi concentration camp for women. “The Nine”, by Gwen Strauss, tells the extraordinary true story of how nine young women from the Resistance survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp and then escaped from a death march in Nazi Germany.

2 weeks ago | france24.com | Claire Paccalin

"It wasn't until she told me, one day over lunch, that I realised she was a war hero."Gwen Strauss' great-aunt, Hélène Podliasky, was one of nine women who used their wits and courage to escape a Nazi death march and find the Americans in the spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing to an end. Seven of the nine were in the French Resistance and two were in the Dutch Resistance. They were all arrested in France and deported to Ravensbrück, Hitler's concentration camp for women.

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