Olga Bancic

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Olga Bancic, author Golda Bancic, ps. Pierrette (born 10 May 1912 in Chisinau, died 10 May 1944 in Stuttgart) is a Romanian-born Jewish Communist, a participant in the French resistance movement, a member of the so- Manukaana Group. Youth

She was born into a Jewish family in Bessarabia. Since early childhood, due to the fatal financial situation of the family, she worked in a mattress factory where she took part in the strike in 1924. Despite her young age, she was arrested along with other workers, arrested and beaten. From 1933 to 1938 she was a local trade union activist.

In 1938 she managed to go to France, where she studied and unofficially joined the French Communist Party. She participated in the illegal sending of arms to republican units in the Spanish Civil War along with other immigrants from Romania. She married one of them, Alexandre Jara, who in 1939 gave birth to her daughter Dolores. Resistance movement

After the Nazis seized France by Nazi Germany, Bancic entrusted her daughter to a French family and engaged herself entirely in the organization of the MOI (resistance movement units of emigrants). She did not take direct part in military action but was responsible for the illegal production and transport of bombs and explosives. This has contributed to at least 100 acts of sabotage and diversion.

She was detained on November 16, 1943, together with 67 other MOI activists and sentenced to death by military court along with 22 other prominent Manukaan activists. She was then taken to a Stuttgart prison where, despite torture, she did not renounce her beliefs and was again sentenced to death and killed on May 10 by ax chop. Bancic became a symbol of women fighting in resistance; The commemorative plaque is dedicated to the Ivry-sur-Seine cemetery, where her companions were buried.

She appears in the movie L'affiche rouge, in which her role is played by Maja Wodecka. The title refers to the "red posters" that the Germans had hanged on the streets of cities (in total fifteen thousand) as part of a propaganda campaign against the resistance movement. They included photographs of Manukaan and his fellow immigrants presented as foreign criminals pretending to be fighters for French freedom. Bibliography

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