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Mila Racine

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

  1. Mauthausen concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  2. Ravensbrück concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  3. Compiègne-Royallieu concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  4. Mauthausen concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  5. The Pax Hotel
    Dates unknown
  6. Ravensbrück concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  7. The Pax Hotel
    Dates unknown
  8. Montluc prison
    Dates unknown
  9. Montluc prison
    Dates unknown
  10. Compiègne-Royallieu concentration camp
    Dates 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.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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