Éliane Jeannin-Garreau

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Éliane Jeannin Garreau served in WWII in France as part of the resistance. She was the "right-hand person" to the leader of the French Resistance. Nazis captured her and placed her in Ravensbruck. While there, she was tortured for the name of the leader (whom they had also unknowingly captured) but she wouldn't speak. When she wasn't being tortured or working she would draw different scenes of what was happening in the women's concentration camps.

She was eventually released and was married Roger Garreau in 1948. She only had one daughter, Anne. She wrote a book about her experiences- Les Cris de la Memoire or Cries of Memory. She had her sister, Nicole Jeannin Neilson, translate it for her into English. (Her sister Nicole also served in WWII as a codebreaker. She met her American husband during the war and moved to California where she lived with her husband and eight children.) Eliane Jeannin Garreau died in the mid-1990s.