Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz

Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (Known as "Geneviève de Gaulle")

Resistance Fighter, Ravensbrück Survivor, President of ATD Quart Monde, Panthéon

Born Oct 25, 1920

Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle (Gard), France

Passed Away Feb 14, 2002 Paris, France

Lifespan 81 years old

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"Poverty is a violation of human rights; those who have known the camps have an absolute duty to stand with those who suffer in silence."

Archival Overview

Niece of General Charles de Gaulle, heroic resistance courier, and survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp who served 34 years as President of ATD Quart Monde fighting extreme poverty, inducted into the Panthéon.

Biographical Record

A history student at the Sorbonne in 1940, she immediately joined the Musée de l'Homme resistance network and Défense de la France. Arrested by the Gestapo in July 1943, she was deported to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück, where Heinrich Himmler ordered her held in solitary confinement in the bunker.

Her memoir La Traversée de la nuit documented survival through solidarity. In 1958, meeting Father Joseph Wresinski at the Noisy-le-Grand shantytown, she dedicated her life to ATD Quart Monde, drafting France's historic 1998 Framework Law against social exclusion and becoming the first woman to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Bossey Communal Cemetery (Soil symbolically inducted into Panthéon in 2015)
Bossey (Haute-Savoie), France

                         GPS: 46.1500, 6.2000                    

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