Simone Michel-Lévy

Simone Michel-Lévy (19 January 1906 – 13 April 1945) was a French Resistance worker.

She had several pseudonyms – Emma, Françoise, Madame Royale, Mademoiselle Flaubert or Madame Bertrand - and is one of 6 female compagnons de la Libération (decreed on 26 September 1945).

Her Resistance activity went further, however - she organised a courier system to get messages to England, diverted telegraph and telephone material to Resistance groups, and sabotaged departures for the STO.

Without having given away even her name, she was deported to Ravensbrück, then Flossenbürg, where she managed to organise a rising against the camp guards.

In 2006, la Place Simone Michel-Lévy was established in Paris to honor her contributions to the French Resistance movement.