Jacqueline Gruner

Jacqueline Gruner (born November 7, 1907 in Montceau-les-Mines , † February 22, 1945 in Ravensbrück ), also known as Nanine Grüner and Maryse Willm , was a French youth book author , journalist and resistance fighter in the Resistance .

Life

Jacqueline Gruner lived for a long time in Paris, where she worked as a secretary for a lawyer. In addition, she wrote both as a journalist for the girls' magazine La Semaine de Suzette and for the daily newspaper Le Petit Parisien , as well as fiction. She was arrested by the Gestapo on March 25, 1944 in Paris because of her work for the Resistance , and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp on August 15, 1944 . She died there in February 1945. The exact circumstances of her death are unclear. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur .

Publications

Single publications

• La Maison de l'Indienne . Hachette, Paris 1944.
• Isabelle et la porte jaune . Bourrelier, Paris 1937.
• L'Enigme du Trèfle . Hachette, Paris 1945.
• Aventures de Gros-Bébé . C. Levy, Paris 1945.

Community publications

• Nanine Gruner, Anne Dujardin and Jean Sinaire : L'Ours Pafu raconte, dix contes . Aux Trois soleils, Paris 1946.

Awards

• 1937 Second place at the Prix Jeunesse youth literature award for Isabelle et la porte jaune

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jacqueline Gruner. (No longer available online.) The Ravensbrück project, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on January 14, 2015 (PDF). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Françoise Bernard-Bries: Jacqueline Gruner. pages-tambour.com, May 13, 2013, accessed January 14, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ Nanine Gruner (1907-1945) - Auteur du texte. Bibliothèque nationale de France, accessed on January 14, 2015 (French).