Cécile Reims
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Cécile Reims | |
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Born | |
Died | 18 July 2020 | (aged 92)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Engraver and writer |
Awards | Legion of Honour |
Cécile Reims (19 October 1927 – 18 July 2020) was a French engraver and writer.[1] She was a resistance member of World War II. She received the Legion of Honour in 2013. Reims died in La Châtre on 18 July 2020, aged 92.[1]
Of Lithuanian Jewish descent, Reims's first came to France in 1933.[1] Her father was Judelas Remzas. Reims's father and aunt escaped the terror of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942, but were separated in the confusion of war. Alone in Vichy, Reims joined the Jewish resistance group, Organisation Juive de Combat. She, her father, and aunt were reunited in 1944 but her uncle, Gustav Gumpert, was murdered at Auschwitz.[2]
Publications[]
- Reims, Cécile (1963). L'épure (in French). Paris: Julliard.
- Reims, Cécile (1986). Bagages perdus (in French). Paris: Éditions Ryôan-ji.
- Reims, Cécile (2002). Plus tard (in French). Marseille: Éditions André Dimanche.
- Reims, Cécile (2010). Peut-être (in French). Bazas: Éditions Le temps qu'il fait.
- Reims, Cécile (2014). Tout ça n'a pas d'importance (in French). Bazas: Éditions Le temps qu'il fait.
- Reims, Cécile (2017). L’embouchure du temps (in French). Bazas: Éditions Le temps qu'il fait.
- Reims, Cécile (2018). Bagages perdus (in French). Mazères: Éditions Le temps qu'il fait.
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- Lithuanian emigrants to France
- French engravers
- 1927 births
- 2020 deaths
- Artists from Paris
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- Jews in the French resistance
- Female resistance members of World War II
- 21st-century French writers
- 20th-century French writers
- French contemporary artists
- 21st-century French engravers
- 20th-century French engravers
- 20th-century French women writers
- 21st-century French women writers
- Lithuanian Jews
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