Frida Wattenberg
déléguée à la mémoire de l’ARJF
Frida Wattenberg, born in 1924 in Paris, was a delegate in memory of the ARJF (Association of Jewish Resistance Elders in France).
From Jewish parents from Poland, she grew up in the Marais Jewish Quarter in Paris and joined the Hachomer Hatzaïr movement in the late 1930s. During the Second World War, she joined the Gaullist cell of the Lycée Victor-Hugo in Paris and participated in the collage of posters in all classes to call the Resistance on November 11, 19401.
In 1941, she joined the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE), for which she made fake papers.
Frida Wattenberg dies of Covid-19 on April 3, 2020 at the age of 95.