Rita Arnould
Rita Arnould († August 20, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee ) was a radio operator and courier for the Rote Kapelle group in Belgium under the aliases Juliette and Julia .
Life
Arnould got her name through marriage, but the husband died before the start of World War II. During her studies at the University of Brussels, she made the acquaintance of Isidor Springer (1912–1942), a diamond dealer in Brussels, who in 1941 became the liaison between Leopold Trepper and Anatoli Gurevich .
Arnould also worked as a courier for Isidor Springer and was trained as a radio operator at Gurewitsch's Belgian residence. She rented an apartment in Etterbeek at 101 rue des Atrebates , where Michail Makarow and Sophia Poznanska moved. She received instructions in radio technology from Johann Wenzel and David Kamy (Danilow). She attended two meetings with Auguste Sésée , who was also a radio operator.
She was arrested in Brussels at 101 rue des Atrebates on December 13, 1941, together with Sophia Poznanska. Both were denounced from the middle-class neighborhood to the Belgian police because of "frequent male visits". This started the wave of arrests against the resistance groups of the Resistance and the German Resistance, later known as the Rote Kapelle , because the apartment was also used by radio operators David Kamy , Johann Wenzel and Leon Großvogel . From here they had a connection to the Soviet embassy in London .
Arnould was imprisoned in Moabit Judicial Jail for a while ; In April 1943, the Reich Court Martial was sentenced to death in the Nazi execution site in Plötzensee .
literature
- Gilles Perrault : On the trail of the Red Chapel. Europaverlag, Vienna and Munich 1994, ISBN 3-203-51232-7
- Leopold Trepper : The Truth: Autobiography of the "Grand Chef" of the Red Chapel . dtv, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-01387-7 , pages 31–419
- Hans Coppi junior : The “Red Orchestra” in the field of tension between resistance and intelligence work. The Trepper Report of June 1943 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 3/1996 ( online PDF, 7 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Radler: Appendix 1 - Victims and survivors of the Red Orchestra in Western Europe and Germany. Attempt to take stock. In: Leopold Trepper: The Truth. Autobiography. dtv, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-01387-7 , page 373
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnould, Rita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juliette; Julia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1943 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Plötzensee |