Denise Vernay
French resistance fighter (1924-2013) · France · On the map · Died at 88
Denise Vernay-Jacob was a member of the French Resistance during World War II, who operated under the aliases of "Miarka" and "Annie" from 1941. She narrowly avoided the March 1944 roundup of Jews in Nice, France which resulted in the deportation of her parents to Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.
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Captured less than three months later, she survived torture by the Gestapo and imprisonment at two Nazi concentration camps - Ravensbrück and Mauthausen. She was rescued by the Red Cross in April 1945 and returned home to France at the conclusion of the war.