RITA ARNOULD-BLOCH.
Rita Arnould-Block, alias JULIETTE or JULIA. Was a courier and WT operator for Gurevich's organisation in Belgium.
Recruited by Isidor Springer, Acted as courier for Springer and under his orders rented address below to house Marakov's WT set and accomodate Sophia Poznanska. Received instructions in WT from Wenzel and Danilov. Attended 2 rendezvous with Sesee.
On 13-12-1941 arrested and immediately turned being an informer. Identified photographs of Trepper and Gurevich.
Address: 1941, 101 Rue des Attrebatees, Etterbeek, Brussels.
While being a university student, became mistress of Isidor Springer.
Married to Albert Arnould, who died before outbreak of war.
Birth: 11-09-1914, Amsterdam. Family moved to Belgium.
1940, resumed relations with Springer
Ultimately executed by the Germans.
Sources: Amsterdam Archive & KV3/350.
Recruited by Isidor Springer, Acted as courier for Springer and under his orders rented address below to house Marakov's WT set and accomodate Sophia Poznanska. Received instructions in WT from Wenzel and Danilov. Attended 2 rendezvous with Sesee.
On 13-12-1941 arrested and immediately turned being an informer. Identified photographs of Trepper and Gurevich.
Address: 1941, 101 Rue des Attrebatees, Etterbeek, Brussels.
While being a university student, became mistress of Isidor Springer.
Married to Albert Arnould, who died before outbreak of war.
Birth: 11-09-1914, Amsterdam. Family moved to Belgium.
1940, resumed relations with Springer
Ultimately executed by the Germans.
Sources: Amsterdam Archive & KV3/350.
The house at 101 Rue des Atrébates in Etterbeek was rented by Rita Arnould-Bloch.
Rita Bloch was the daughter of Abraham Bloch and Francine Wolf. Rita was born on September 11, 1914 in Amsterdam. Her brother Iwan Gerhard was born a year earlier on May 16, 1913 in Saint-Gilles (Brussels). The family lived alternately in the Netherlands and Belgium. Abraham was sales director of the I.G. Bloch & Gebr. Stibbe at 35 Rue d'Angleterre in Brussels. After a long illness, Abraham died on February 21, 1921. He was 36 years old. The family continued to live in Brussels where Rita went to the university. On December 6, 1939, she married the much older Albert Arnould and they moved to 57 Avenue du Parc in Saint-Gilles. Rita went to work at the Société Financière Belge-Canandienne until the entire staff was dismissed in May 1940. On June 6, 1941, Albert Arnoud died in the St. Pierre hospital in Brussels.
During her studies at the university, Rita had met the Belgian Isodor Springer and he introduced her to the resistance movement Die Rote Kapelle (The Red Orchestra).
Die Rote Kapelle was created in circles of North German artists and intellectuals and received support from the Soviet Union. It became one of the main spy networks and resistance groups against Nazi Germany and was spread throughout the occupied territory in Europe. They tried to transmit important information to the Allies using radio transmitters.
In Belgium, there were three transmitters, in Etterbeek, Uccle and Molenbeek.
Rita (code name Julia, Juliette) was agent of the Belgian department of Die Rote Kapelle. She gave shelter in her home at 101 Rue des Atrébates in Etterbeek and acted also as a courier.
On the night of December 13, 1941, the German counterintelligence raided the house and arrested Rita, the Soviet agent and wireless operator Anton Danilov (code name Albert Desmet) and coder Sophie Posnanska (code name Anna Verlingen).
Rita ended up in the Kriegswehrmachtgefängnis Sint-Gillis. On April 19, 1943, Rita was notified by the Feldgericht z.V.B.d. Luftwaffe in Berlin-Steglitz (Aktenzeichen AKStL 52/43) sentenced to death for espionage. The same day she was deported to the Moabit prison in Berlin, with prison number 164/43.
On August 19, 1943, she was moved to the women's prison at 10 Barnimstraße in Berlin (under number 2911/43), this was an intermediate station for the execution. The next day at noon she was transferred to Plötzensee prison where she had been executed by guillotine the same day.
Text and pictures provided by Mr. Jan Biekens.
Rita Bloch was the daughter of Abraham Bloch and Francine Wolf. Rita was born on September 11, 1914 in Amsterdam. Her brother Iwan Gerhard was born a year earlier on May 16, 1913 in Saint-Gilles (Brussels). The family lived alternately in the Netherlands and Belgium. Abraham was sales director of the I.G. Bloch & Gebr. Stibbe at 35 Rue d'Angleterre in Brussels. After a long illness, Abraham died on February 21, 1921. He was 36 years old. The family continued to live in Brussels where Rita went to the university. On December 6, 1939, she married the much older Albert Arnould and they moved to 57 Avenue du Parc in Saint-Gilles. Rita went to work at the Société Financière Belge-Canandienne until the entire staff was dismissed in May 1940. On June 6, 1941, Albert Arnoud died in the St. Pierre hospital in Brussels.
During her studies at the university, Rita had met the Belgian Isodor Springer and he introduced her to the resistance movement Die Rote Kapelle (The Red Orchestra).
Die Rote Kapelle was created in circles of North German artists and intellectuals and received support from the Soviet Union. It became one of the main spy networks and resistance groups against Nazi Germany and was spread throughout the occupied territory in Europe. They tried to transmit important information to the Allies using radio transmitters.
In Belgium, there were three transmitters, in Etterbeek, Uccle and Molenbeek.
Rita (code name Julia, Juliette) was agent of the Belgian department of Die Rote Kapelle. She gave shelter in her home at 101 Rue des Atrébates in Etterbeek and acted also as a courier.
On the night of December 13, 1941, the German counterintelligence raided the house and arrested Rita, the Soviet agent and wireless operator Anton Danilov (code name Albert Desmet) and coder Sophie Posnanska (code name Anna Verlingen).
Rita ended up in the Kriegswehrmachtgefängnis Sint-Gillis. On April 19, 1943, Rita was notified by the Feldgericht z.V.B.d. Luftwaffe in Berlin-Steglitz (Aktenzeichen AKStL 52/43) sentenced to death for espionage. The same day she was deported to the Moabit prison in Berlin, with prison number 164/43.
On August 19, 1943, she was moved to the women's prison at 10 Barnimstraße in Berlin (under number 2911/43), this was an intermediate station for the execution. The next day at noon she was transferred to Plötzensee prison where she had been executed by guillotine the same day.
Text and pictures provided by Mr. Jan Biekens.
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