ICI VECUT BERTIE ALBRECHT

HEROINE DE LA RESISTANCE COMPAGNON DE LA LIBERATION UNE DES FONDATRICES DU MOUVEMENT COMBAT (M.L.N) EXÉCUTÉE À FRESNES LE 29 MAI 1943

HOMMAGE DES FEMMES DE LA LIBERATION NATIONALE

Bertie Albrecht (1893-1943) was a French feminist who was active in the French resistance forces to German rule and the Vichy government. Banned by the Vichy government at the end of 1942, and sentenced to imprisonment in a internment camp until the end of the war. Albrecht escaped from the internment camp, and hid in various places in France.
In February 1943, she went to Marseilles for a meeting with several individuals, one of whom later turned out to be a spy for the Germans. The Gestapo commander in the city of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, set a trap for her, and Albrecht was imprisoned in the city of Mâcon. She was tortured, then transferred to Paris and executed on May 29, 1943.

The sign is on the wall of the house where she lived that was taken on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
HERE LIVES BERTIE ALBRECHT

HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE COMPANION OF LIBERATION ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COMBAT MOVEMENT (M.L.N) EXECUTED IN FRESNES ON MAY 29, 1943

TRIBUTE TO THE WOMEN OF NATIONAL LIBERATION