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Aug 01, 1920 Athens, Attica Region, Greece Died on 09 Mar 1943 (aged 22)

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About Yvonne Picard

  • Yvonne Picard (1 August 1920 – 9 March 1943) was a French philosopher and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
  • She and her brother, the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard, were the children of the archaeologist Charles Picard. Yvonne Picard was born in Athens, Greece, her father being head of the French School at Athens at the time.
  • She obtained a degree in Philosophy and became an adherent of Marxism.
  • She began teaching at the École normale supérieure at Sèvres. In 1941, she joined the "Socialisme et Liberté" group founded by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and also joined the Resistance.
  • She soon left Sartre's group, believing it "amateurish", instead joining the Communist Youth.
  • The police traced her through her connection with a member of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, and obtained her address from her unsuspecting parents.
  • Her Paris associates included Raoul Lévy and Bianca Lamblin.
  • Along with her fiancé, Gaston Étiévent, she was arrested in May 1942.
  • Étiévent was shot without trial in August 1942, and Yvonne Picard was imprisoned at Fort de Romainville; she was later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, leaving Compiègne by a transport of 24 January 1943.
  • They were taken to the women's prison at Birkenau.
  • Suffering from dysentery, Picard was admitted to the hospital called the "Revier", where she died shortly afterwards.

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