Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz

Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (25 October 1920 – 14 February 2002) was a member of the French Resistance in World War II, during which she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp.

After the war, she was a human rights defender and president of the charity organisation ATD Quart Monde for poverty reduction.

She was arrested by Pierre Bonny of the French Gestapo on 20 July 1943, imprisoned in Fresnes and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp on 2 February 1944.

[2] As an active member and later president of the ADIR (Association of Deportées and Internées of the Résistance), she filed lawsuits against Nazi war criminals, then took part in the rise of the political movement launched by her uncle, Rassemblement du peuple français (Rally of the French People).

[4] Starting as a permanent volunteer, de Gaulle-Anthonioz served as president of the movement ATD Quart Monde from 1964 to 1998.

Commemorative plaque at the home of Geneviève de Gaulle, 10 Rue de Robin, Rennes
Interment at the Panthéon