Irma Mico

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

Irma Mico
Born
Irma Rosenberg

(1914-12-12)12 December 1914
Chernivtsi, Bukovina, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary
Died4 January 2022(2022-01-04) (aged 107)
NationalityFrench
OccupationResistance fighter

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 Travail allemand,[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
  • Le dernier grand soir: Un Juif de Pologne (1980)[8]
  • Women in the Holocaust (1999)
  • Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism (2004)

Filmography

References
  1. Rabi, Bärbel (January 2011). "Das Tüpfelchen auf dem "i"" (PDF). Die Stimme (in German). Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. "Irma Mico". BnF Data (in French). Archived from the original on 4 July 2018.
  3. Ofer, Dalia; Weitzman, Lenore J. (1998). Women in the Holocaust. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300080808.
  4. "Resistance by the Pool: a transnational moment". Transnational Resistance 1936-1948. 14 April 2016.
  5. "" On ne parle jamais assez de ces événements "". L'Humanité (in French). 9 February 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. "C.N.R.D. 2011 Répression de la résistance avec Ciné-histoire". Cercle d’étude de la Déportation et de la Shoah (in French). Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.
  7. "Décès d'Irma Mico, Juive d'origine roumaine icône de la Résistance". The Times of Israel (in French). 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  8. Frankel, Jonathan (2005). Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 196. ISBN 9780190292928.
  9. ""Das Kind", de Yonathan Levy". Jewpop (in French). Archived from the original on 25 August 2018.
  10. Alexander, Iain (16 February 2013). "'Das Kind' documentary reveals true story of WW2 resistance movement". Film Industry Network. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  11. Evin, Kathleen (14 May 2013). "Yonathan Levy et André Miko". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 5 January 2022.


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