Zofia Poznańska
Zofia Poznańska called Zosia (* 1906 in Łódź ; † September 29, 1942 in the Brussels prison Saint-Gilles , Belgium ) was a Polish-Jewish resistance fighter of the Red Chapel .
Life
Poznanska grew up in Kalisz . There she joined a group of the socialist - Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair , which was founded by Fiszek Kempiński, the father of Yehudit Kafri .
After emigrating to Palestine , she was one of the pioneers who founded the kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in northern Israel on the western edge of the Jezreel plain . There she met Leopold Trepper , with whom she joined the Palestinian Communist Party .
She later moved to Brussels at 101 rue des Attrébates, where she was arrested on the night of December 12-13, 1941. This marked the beginning of the wave of arrests against the resistance groups of the Resistance and the German Resistance, later known as the Red Orchestra . She committed suicide in prison without giving any evidence of the code used to encrypt the radio messages.
The apartment that she shared with Rita Arnould 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 . Her code name in Belgium was Anna Verlinden .
Honors
On December 13, 2006 there was a tribute to the executed members of the Red Chapel by the Russian Ambassador Vadim B. Lukov at the Fort Breendonk Memorial , at which Sophia Poznanska was also honored.
literature
- 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)
- Yehudit Kafri : Zosha . Keter, Jerusalem 2003, ISBN 9650711791 (Hebrew).
- Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 .
- Hans Schafranek and Johannes Tuchel (eds.): War in the ether. Resistance and espionage in World War II . Picus, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-854-52470-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Léopold Trepper: The Truth: Autobiography of the "Grand Chef" of the Red Chapel . Edition 9 of the series Unwanted Books on Fascism. Ahriman-Verlag GmbH, 1995, ISBN 978-3-89484-554-4 ( google.de - text excerpt with the chapter on Rue des Atrébates 101).
- ^ Roy B. Alterman: Le Grand Jeu. October 24, 2007, archived from the original on December 9, 2010 ; Retrieved June 14, 2018 (Swedish).
- ↑ Ingrid Strobl: The fear only came afterwards . Jewish women in the resistance 1939–1945. Frankfurt am Main, 1998 ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 67 kB)
- ↑ Shareen Blair Brysac: Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra . Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-531353-6 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ ptx calls moscow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1968 ( online ).
- ^ Ambassade de la Fédération de Russie au Rouyaume de Belgique. In: belgium.mid.ru. Archived from the original on August 24, 2007 ; accessed on January 14, 2015 .
Web links
- Neri Livneh: A woman called Zosha . Biography in Haaretz (English)
- Adi Raz: Une femme nommée Zosha ( Memento from January 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poznańska, Zofia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verlinden, Anna; Poznanska, Sophia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1942 |
| Place of death | Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis , Belgium |