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Lucie Samuel (29 June 1912 – 14 March 2007), born Bernard and known as Lucie Aubrac ( French pronunciation: [lysi obʁak] ⓘ ), was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. [1] A history teacher by occupation, she earned a history agrégation in 1938, a highly uncommon achievement for a woman at that time.
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- Wartime Love Story
- Joining The Resistance
- Outwitting The Gestapo
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Lucie Bernard was born in 1912 in the small commune of Châtenay-sur-Seine in north-central France, southeast of Paris. As a teenager, she rebelled against her parents’ wishes by refusing to train as a primary school teacher, a solid position that would have helped her working-class family move up the social ladder. Instead, she moved to Paris by he...
In 1939, she met and fell in love with Raymond Samuel, an engineering student from a well-to-do Jewish family. Later that year, she was preparing to leave for the United States, having won a scholarship grant. But on September 1, four days before Lucie was to sail for New York, German troops invaded Poland, prompting Britain, France and other Allie...
Unlike many in France, Lucie was never under any illusion that Pétain’s government headquartered in the spa town of Vichy, was legitimate. In the fall of 1940, following her tried-and-true principle of le refus, Lucie became one of the earliest members of the French Resistance, the growing movement dedicated to undermining the Vichy regime. Even as...
On June 21, however, Raymond was arrested again, along with the chief Resistance leader Jean Moulin, in a Gestapo raid in the Lyon suburb of Caluire. Barbie and his officers beat and tortured both men; Moulin would later die from his injuries. It was while Raymond was being held in Montluc prison that Lucie—pregnant with their second child at the t...
Exposed and wanted by the Nazis, the Aubracs went into hiding with their young son, moving from safe house to safe house until they were finally evacuated to Britain in February 1944. (Lucie gave birth to a daughter, Catherine, only days after their arrival.) The Allied press celebrated the couple—and especially Lucie—for their heroism, and held th...
The Aubracs’ triumphant post-war return was tinged with sadness, as Raymond’s parents had been deported to Auschwitz in January 1944. Lucie began teaching history again and would spend the rest of her life speaking to thousands of students about the Resistance. She also campaigned against discrimination, and on behalf of progressive causes, such as...
Lucie Aubrac was a rebel, a communist and a teacher who joined the Resistance and saved her husband Raymond from the Gestapo twice. Learn about her life, her love story and her legacy in this biography by Siân Rees.
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Mar 18, 2007 · Lucie Aubrac, a French schoolteacher whose melding of romance and resistance to Nazi occupation not only made her resemble Ingrid Bergman’s character in “Casablanca” but also inspired popular...
Mar 16, 2007 · Fri 16 Mar 2007 19.56 EDT. Lucie Aubrac, who has died aged 94, was one of the legendary figures of the French resistance, so famous that in 1997 her story was made into a colourfully romantic...
Lucie Samuel (29 June 1912 – 14 March 2007), born Bernard and known as Lucie Aubrac ( French pronunciation: [ lysi obʁak] ⓘ ), was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. A history teacher by occupation, she earned a history agrégation in 1938, a highly uncommon achievement for a woman at that time.
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Learn about Lucie Aubrac, a prominent member of the Libération Sud network who helped organize prison escapes and sabotage operations during World War II. Find out how she met her husband Raymond Samuel, a Jewish engineer and fellow résistant, and how she wrote about her experiences in several books.
Sep 22, 2016 · Lucie Aubrac was a teacher, a Resistance fighter, and a wife who risked her life to save her husband Raymond from the Nazis. She fooled the Gestapo, escaped from prison, and helped liberate France from German occupation.
