The Diverging Fates of Golda Perla and Mindla Diament: Two Polish Jewish Sisters in the French Resistance
The Diverging Fates of Golda Perla and Mindla Diament: Two Polish Jewish Sisters in the French Resistance

Author(s): Bruna Lo Biundo, Caroline François
Subject(s): History, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: civilian opposition to Nazi occupation; Golda Perla; Mindla Diament; French Resistance
Summary/Abstract: The year 2024 marks two very important anniversaries in French history: the 80th anniversary of the country’s liberation from Nazi occupation in August 1944, and the granting of the right to vote to women on 21 April 1944. To celebrate the liberation and the immigrants’ contribution to the French Resistance, on February 21, the French Republic honored Mélinée and Missak Manouchian by inducting them into the Pantheon. These resistance fighters of Armenian origin led the renowned Parisian movement known as L’affiche rouge, one of the best-known networks of foreign resistance fighters in France. This event, planned over several years, is part of a historiographical and governmental effort to acknowledge the role of foreigners in the Resistance, a process initiated by the induction of Josephine Baker into the Pantheon in 2021.

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