Raisa Blokh

Blokh published her poetry in several Russian emigre literary journals including Sovremennye zapiski and Chisla.

During the Nazi occupation of France in 1941, Mikhail was interned in the Pithiviers camp.

Despite her best efforts, Raisa was unable to prevent her husband from being deported.

[1] In the spring of 1942, she accompanied young Polish Jewish women, arriving with Doctor and Mrs Marklin, at the Vic-sur-Cère accommodation centre[2] founded by the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), where she became the head teacher[3] under the pseudonym of Michelle Miraille, a French national.

She was arrested when she tried to cross into Switzerland at Certoux, but was turned back at Annemasse.