Rene Barques,
Independent Researcher, Paris, France. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Epic of the “Rodina” Detachment: on the Activities of the Only Female Partisan Detachment in France
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-5
In the article, on the basis of archival and personally collected documents, the author highlights the history of the only female partisan detachment “Rodina”, which took an active part in the Resistance movement in France. The conditions of detention and work of women prisoners in the camps of Errouville and Thiel are described. The historical picture of the creation of an underground committee in the camp, which prepared the escape of women and men, has been recreated. In the Argonne forests, under the leadership of Nadezhda Iosifovna Lisovets, a partisan detachment was organized, which successfully fought in Lorraine until 1945. The role of Soviet women in the French Resistance movement was investigated. In the preparation and writing of the article, numerous documents were used from the archives of the Museum of National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne, the Historical Defense Service of Vincennes, Commemorative notebooks in memory of the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, l’ARAC No. 856, interviews of residents of Thiel, A.S. Paramonova and N.I. Liskovets, children and grandchildren of members of the Resistance, as well as the works of French and Russian historians. The author concluded that it is necessary to perpetuate the feat of the members of the “Rodina” detachment both in Russia and in France.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 05.05.2021
How to cite: Barques R. Epic of the “Rodina” Detachment: on the Activities of the Only Female Partisan Detachment in France // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 41–48. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-05.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: female partisan detachment “Rodina”; maki; Resistance movement; USSR; France; concentration camp; Soviet prisoners of war; fascism