Resistant, deported, released in 1945 after a frightful way of death, it had embarked on in 1990 in the Association of Former Deportes and Internees of Resistance, and had been involved with college students and high school students. She died on November 8 at the age of 97.
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Resistant, deported and long president of the International Committee of Ravensbrück, Annette Chalut died in Paris on 8 November at the age of 97 years.
Born in Paris on April 29, 1924 in a family of Jewish origin very attached to Republican ideals, it grows with an acute awareness of the values that xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism upset in the 1930s.
His father, Pierre Weill (1894-1944), fought during the Great War, in the 39 infantry regiment and, very patriot, takes his family every 11-November to ceremonies commemorative. In 1939 he was interpreted with the English army but, despite the warnings, refuses to leave France. Arrested in December 1941 by the Gestapo because of its Jewish and interned ancestry in Compiègne (Oise), however, it is released three months later thanks to the intervention of his wife, and decides to engage in the resistance: “if I’m stopped again, it will be for a good reason! “
Cap on the free zone and Clermont-Ferrand, where Annette prepares the certificate of physical, chemical and biological studies (PCB), prerequisites for the entry in the Faculty of Medicine. But the program differs from that of Paris, its file seems lost and its future compromised. Furious, Pierre Weill is looking for another university town where he can also effectively continue his implication of resistant. It will be Toulouse and access to the faculty, while the father of Annette, German-speaking, becomes the secretary of the chaplain of the camps of the free zone.
False papers
But the invasion in November 1942 of this space until then subtracts the Germans changes the game. To preserve the Jews of the deportation, under the cover of the chaplaincy, with the abbot Alphonse Lagarde, and with the support of the bishopric, Monseigneur Saliège (1870-1956) unambiguously condemning the antisemic persecutions, Pierre and his daughters , Lise and Annette – She takes the pseudonym of “Warnod” – then procure false papers to the internees so that they can hide, even pass the Spanish border.
Victim of a denunciation, Annette Weill is arrested in Toulouse, like his father, his sister and Father Lagarde, on March 8, 1944, incarcerated at Saint-Michel Prison, where she is questioned by the Gestapo before Going in deportation, passing through the fort of Romainville, sorting camp before Ravensbrück, two months later. Its false papers are however sufficiently well done so that it is not going back to its true identity and it is not identified as Jewish.
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