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Irma Mico
Birth Name:Irma Rosenberg
Birth Date:1914 12, df=y
Birth Place:Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary
Nationality:French
Occupation:Resistance fighter

Irma Mico (née Rosenberg, 12 December 1914 – 4 January 2022) was an Austro-Hungarian-born French resistance fighter.[1]

Biography

Rosenberg was born into a Romanian Jewish family in 1914 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary. She married Grisha Rothstein and moved to Bucharest, Romania, as a member of the Romanian Communist Party. In 1937, facing a rise in nationalism, the couple moved to Paris, France.[2] When her husband went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War between the Second Spanish Republic and the Francoist Spain, she met her second husband, Julien Mico. She joined the Main-d'œuvre immigrée and joined the,[3] which attempted to persuade Wehrmacht soldiers to abandon their cause and switch sides.[4] Thanks to her German-speaking abilities, Mico was able to participate in the program.[5]

In her life after World War II, Mico gave lectures aimed at keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.[6] She died on 4 January 2022, at the age of 107.[7]

Publications

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. News: Rabi. Bärbel. January 2011. Das Tüpfelchen auf dem "i". de. Die Stimme. 5 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Irma Mico. BnF Data. fr. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180704010522/http://data.bnf.fr/16777177/irma_mico/. 4 July 2018.
  3. Book: Ofer. Dalia. Weitzman. Lenore J.. 1998. Women in the Holocaust. Yale University Press. 0300080808.
  4. Web site: Resistance by the Pool: a transnational moment. 14 April 2016. Transnational Resistance 1936-1948.
  5. News: 9 February 2007. " On ne parle jamais assez de ces événements ". fr. L'Humanité. 5 January 2022.
  6. Web site: C.N.R.D. 2011 Répression de la résistance avec Ciné-histoire. Cercle d’étude de la Déportation et de la Shoah. fr. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20201031075052/https://www.cercleshoah.org/spip.php?article153. 31 October 2020.
  7. News: 5 January 2022. Décès d'Irma Mico, Juive d'origine roumaine icône de la Résistance. fr. The Times of Israel. 5 January 2022.
  8. Book: Frankel, Jonathan. 2005. Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 196. 9780190292928.
  9. Web site: "Das Kind", de Yonathan Levy. Jewpop. fr. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180825220426/http://jewpop.com/das-kind-de-yonathan-levy/. 25 August 2018.
  10. News: Alexander. Iain. 16 February 2013. 'Das Kind' documentary reveals true story of WW2 resistance movement. Film Industry Network. 5 January 2022.
  11. News: Evin. Kathleen. 14 May 2013. Yonathan Levy et André Miko. fr. France Inter. 5 January 2022.

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