Yvette Lundy, a member of the French Resistance who provided false identification papers to Jewish families, has died. She was 103.
Lundy, who also survived two Nazi concentration camps, died in the northern French town of Epernay on Nov. 3.
She would go on to become a schoolteacher and also worked at the town hall. Lundy joined the Resistance at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of France, the French news agency AFP reported. She provided fake papers to Jewish families and escaped prisoners of war.
She was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944, when she was 28. Lundy was imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later at Buchenwald. She was later assigned to a Kommando slave labor unit near Weimar and was liberated by the Russian army in April 1945.
Lundy returned to France but did not begin speaking about her experiences until 1959.
—JTA News and Features
