Date of birth:

April 8th, 1923 (Annabé, Algeria)

Date of death:

January 18th, 1945 (Ravensbrück KZ, Germany)

Nationality:

French

Eugénie Djendi enlisted in January 1943, in the Women's Signal Corps (CFT) created by General Lucien Merlin and participated in the Tunisian campaign. These women were referred to as "Le Merlinettes". With her comrades, Marie-Louise Cloarec, Pierrette Louin and Suzanne Mertzizen, she was asked in the fall of 1943 to join the counter-espionage services of Colonel Paillole in Algiers. After training as a radio operator and parachutist, she joined England on March 20, 1943 and volunteered to carry out a mission for the BCRA. Parachuted into occupied France in early April, she was arrested on April 27. Interrogated by German police, she refused to divulge her information and was deported to the Ravensbrück camp where she found her three comrades from the CFT. They were executed together on January 18, 1945.

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