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Known as “Le Convoi des 31000” (so named for the numbers tattooed on their arms by the Nazis, representing the transport they arrived on), 230 women ranging in age from 17 to 67 were taken to the infamous
Auschwitz concentration camp on 24 January 1943. They were the only group of non-Jewish women
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and his wife Maï, at 170 bis, rue de
Grenelle in the 7th arrondissement. French Police of the Special Anticommunist Brigade (BS) had been following Danielle since 23 January after spotting her carrying a large suitcase to that same building (it contained coal for the Politzers). They were all taken
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October 1938, Danielle served as leader of the French delegation to the United States at the World Congress of Youth for Peace at Vassar College. When the French Communist Youth was banned in September 1939, Danielle Casanova went into hiding. She founded the newspaper
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movement. She was elected
Secretary-General of the UJFF. At its First Congress in December 1936, she organised a collection of milk for young malnourished Spanish victims of the
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312:(Women's Voice). She organised demonstrations against the occupying forces, including the events of 8 November and 11 November 1940 caused by Professor
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where there is a memorial to her. A heroine of French
Resistance, she has lent her name to streets, schools, and colleges throughout France; notably
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sent to death camps during the Nazi occupation; women from the French
Resistance who clandestinely fought Nazis and the Vichy regime.
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of 1936 charged her with creating the UJFF. This organisation, though similar to the
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and his wife; she had been involved in organising actions against the German occupiers. First incarcerated at
213:(UJFF, Union of Young French Women) in 1936. Casanova was arrested on 15 February 1942 as she brought coal to
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headquarters where they were interrogated until 23 March. Danielle managed to get a letter to her mother.
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A Train in Winter: An
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on 24 January 1943, where she began working as a dentist at the camp infirmary. She died of
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In Paris, she became interested in politics and joined the
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jail. On 24 August 1942 she was moved to the transit camp
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and helped collect and ship relief supplies to Spanish
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French people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
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shortly thereafter. She was posthumously awarded the
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Je suis morte pour la France (I am dead for France).
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560:Article du 10 novembre 1980 du journal l'Humanité
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306:(Free Thought). She also founded
18:Danielle Casanova (disambiguation)
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797:(in French). Editions du Rocher.
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773:Danielle Casanova, l'indomptable
413:According to the biography that
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324:and placed him in charge of the
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660:Jégouzo, Yves (14 June 2014).
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435:. A large SCNM ferry between
573:"Obituary: Albert Ouzoulias"
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577:The Independent (UK)
445:MS Danielle Casanova
770:Durand, P. (1990).
357:Fort de Romainville
336:(Communist Youth).
223:Fort de Romainville
94:Cause of death
862:Deaths from typhus
388:concentration camp
189:Vincentella Perini
50:Vincentella Perini
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155:Emma Choury
104:Nationality
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443:is called
437:Marseilles
284:republican
268:Marseilles
75:9 May 1943
16:See also:
667:15 August
364:Auschwitz
280:Civil War
241:Biography
227:Auschwitz
193:communist
168:(sisters)
151:Relatives
146:(m. 1933)
134:Communist
83:Auschwitz
451:See also
401:—
353:la Sante
286:forces.
272:pacifist
722:Sources
441:Corsica
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372:dentist
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