[4] Reysa Bernson attended high school at the Lycée Fénelon de Lille.

In 1921, she obtained her baccalauréat Sciences et Langues and completed her first year of Russian studies at the University of Lille.

[4] in 1932, she won the Henry Rey prize from the Société Astronomique de France in recognition of her work popularizing astronomy.

[6] In 1937, Reysa Bernson was the secretary general of the Planetarium of the Exposition Internationale in Paris, which saw around 800,000 visitors during the six months of the exhibition.

[6] Two notable visitors to the Planetarium were astronomers Armand Delsemme and Gérard de Vaucouleurs.

[4] On February 23, 1944, Reysa Bernson, along with her mother, Dweira Bernson-Verhaeghe, were arrested in Dreux, to the west of Paris, for being Jewish.

Despite the efforts of friends in Lille to save them, the women were sent shortly afterward to a concentration camp in Drancy, with a one-day stop in Chartres.

[7] By decision of the municipal council in 2018, there is an allée Reysa Bernson in the Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin quarter of the city of Lille.