JEANNE PONSAINT.
Jeanne Emma Madeleine Ponsaint, worked as a SIMEXCO employee in Brussels, may have provided some assistance to the Gurevich group in Belgium between 1941 and 1942.
She provided accommodation for Nazarin Drailly from 25-11-1942 until 11-11-1942, who was sought by the Gestapo in the general round-up of SIMEX and SIMEXCO employees in Paris and Brussels.
Addresses.
Avenue Louis Bertrand, Schaerbeek, Brussels.
Rue de Progres 139, Brussels.
Personal particulars.
Nationality: Belgian.
Date of birth: 15-01-1921 in Ixelles.
History.
She was before the war a member of the Rexist Party.
Engaged by Jean Passelecq as secretary in SIMEXCO, Brussels in the Spring of 1941.
Arrested by the Gestapo in Brussels on 11-12-1942 and deported to Germany. Detained in Mauthausen.
Repatriated to Belgium on 08-05-1945.
Authoress of "Je suis une Condamnee a Mort".
Attempted to contact Trepper's mistress, Georgina de Winter in the summer of 1946.
Source KV3/351.