French art historian and member of the French Resistance Agnès Humbert.

Agnès Humbert

(1894 - 1963)

Soon after the occupation of Paris began in 1940, Agnès Humbert, a forty-five-year-old art historian, became involved in forming one of the first anti-Nazi organizations, Groupe de Musée de l’Homme—the term “French Resistance” derives from their newspaper, Résistance. In April 1941 the cadre was broken up, its members arrested and sentenced to death. She was sent to work in a rayon factory in Germany, where she remained until the U.S. Army arrived in June 1945.

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