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Mila Racine
1919–1945
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- resistance fighter
Mila Racine (14 September 1921 - 30 March 1945) was a member of the French Jewish underground resistance network during World War II.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Mauthausen concentration campDates unknown
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
- Compiègne-Royallieu concentration campDates unknown
- Mauthausen concentration campDates unknown
- The Pax HotelDates unknown
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
- The Pax HotelDates unknown
- Montluc prisonDates unknown
- Montluc prisonDates unknown
- Compiègne-Royallieu concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Mila Racine (14 September 1921 - 30 March 1945) was a member of the French Jewish underground resistance network during World War II. She is best known for smuggling Jewish children out of France and into Switzerland. In October of 1943, Racine was caught by the Gestapo. She was imprisoned at Ravensbruck and then Mauthausen where she was killed in an allied bombardment in March of 1945. She was posthumously awarded the Medaille de la Resistance and the Croix de Guerre.
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