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Marie-Rose just died GINESTE
Yad Vashem is in mourning
Tribute Monique Kahn, a delegate of the French Committee for Yad Vashem:
- "When the Nazi invasion, the Montauban, a leading figure of the resistance of the Tarn and Garonne, wife of heart and action, convinced Christian, was attached to social services of the Bishopric of Montauban. Upon the call of June 18, 1940 She chooses her camp, and the courage pegged to the body, she became one of the few women to lead underground organizations: it broadcast the first news of the Resistance (Combat, Christian Witness), participated actively in the implementation of the WALL (United Movements of Resistance), fabricated false documents, hid Allied airmen, housed a transmitter, carried explosives and assured the rescue of a number of Jews that the intensity of its shares makes incalculable.
When Monsignor Theas, Bishop of Montauban, moved and shocked by the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv in July 1942, joined actively in resistance, he handed him the text of his famous pastoral letter of protest with the mission of " the mimeograph emergency and send it to all the priests of the diocese . On its own initiative, wary of postal censorship, the young woman got on his bike and ran one hundred kilometers a day to give each ply in person. On 30 August 1942, the precious letter was read in all churches of the region and globally broadcast the day after broadcast on the BBC, the voice of Maurice Schumann, the show "The fra ISH talk to French .
Officer of the Legion of Honor, Marie-Rose was decorated GINESTE Medal of the Resistance, the Military Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palms and the Cross of volunteer fighters, but the distinction she said she received with the most emotion was Medal of the Righteous, who had been assigned by the State of Israel in 1983.
This old lady modest and unobtrusive, which was respectfully called "Miss Gineste" would soon be a hundred years. Uncanny coincidence, she passed away August 30, 2010, sixty eight years to the day after the letter of Monsignor Theas was read from the pulpit.
symbol of heroism and gratitude, the blue bicycle with which it opened the way to our freedom is exposed to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. "
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