Jeanne L'Herminier

Jeannette L'Herminier (15 October 1907 - 7 March 2007[1]) was a French Resistance fighter and deportee.

She was born into a naval family at Nouméa and joined the Resistance around the time of the Vichy fleet scuttling itself at Toulon, which her naval officer brother escaped.

On 19 September 1943 the Gestapo arrested her and her mother-in-law in Paris for hiding an American airman and belonging to the Buckmaster networks.

There she began creating cut-out silhouettes of her fellow prisoners using scraps from newspapers and cardboard boxes recovered in the Holýšov Kommando, a munitions factory where she was a forced-labourer.

She produced more than 150 works, created and saved thanks to often-dangerous assistance from the other prisoners, notably Elisabeth Barbier, who got most of the drawings out of Ravensbrück.