Ginette Hamelin
{{short description|French engineer and architect, member of the French resistance}}
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| birth_name =Ginette Sylvere
| birth_date = 4 March 1913
| birth_place = Clermont-Ferrand, France
| death_date = {{death-date and age|14 October 1944|4 March 1913}}
| death_place = Ravensbrück concentration camp, Nazi Germany
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| other_names =Ginette Sylvere-Hamelin; Ginette Hamelin-Sylvere
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| nationality = French
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Ginette Hamelin (4 March 1913 – 14 October 1944) was a French engineer and architect who became a member of the French Resistance and an intelligence officer in World War II. She was murdered in a concentration camp in 1944.{{cite book | last=Bailly | first=R. | title=Occupation hitlérienne et résistance dans l'Yonne (et zones limitrophes) | publisher=A.N.A.C.R.-Yonne | year=1984 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I81-AAAAIAAJ | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020 }}
Biography
Hamelin was born Ginette Sylvere in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France on 4 March 1913. Her father was Major Antoine Sylvère. He led a major maquis group in the southwest. Her sister was the singer {{interlanguage link|Jany Sylvaire|qid=Q83807804}}. Hamelin studied engineering and architecture in the School of Public Works where she was the first woman to graduate in that field. She married N. Hamelin, brother-in-law of the future Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas. In 1934 Hamelin became a member of the Communist youth.{{cite web | title=HAMELIN Ginette [née SYLVERE Ginette] | website=Maitron | url=https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article75548 | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020}}
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Hamelin's husband was killed in 1940 and she joined the Resistance in 1941. She was part of the National Front for the Liberation and Independence of France with her sister. They fought with André Debon. Hamelin joined the Snipers and Partisans where she became a second lieutenant and also head of an intelligence service. On 13 April 1943 Hamelin was arrested and sent to Romainville. From there she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp on 29 August. She was killed there on 14 October 1944.{{cite book | last1=Debon | first1=A. | last2=Pinson | first2=L. | title=La Résistance dans le Bocage normand | publisher=Editions Tirésias | year=1994 | isbn=978-2-908527-21-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=biJnAAAAMAAJ | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020 }}{{cite book | last=Jérôme | first=J. | title=Les Clandestins: 1940-1944 : souvenirs d'un témoin | publisher=FeniXX réédition numérique | series=Témoignages et documents | year=1985 | isbn=978-2-402-00407-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7lXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020 | page=291}}{{cite book | last=Maurel | first=M. | title=Un camp très ordinaire | publisher=Minuit | year=2016 | isbn=978-2-7073-4301-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kg5tDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT116 | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020 | page=116}}{{cite book | title=Terre de cendres: Ravensbrück et Belsen, 1943–1945 | publisher=Oeuvres françaises | year=1946 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOafAAAAMAAJ | language=no | access-date=26 May 2020 }}{{cite book | last=Bailly | first=R. | title=Si la Résistance m'était contée: --á travers les événements de l'Yonne (et environs) | publisher=ANACR-Yonne | year=1990 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p81-AAAAIAAJ | language=fr | access-date=26 May 2020 }}
Recognition
Her name is inscribed on the war memorials of Joigny and Auxerre. There is a square named after her in the 12th district of Paris since 2003.{{cite web | title=Place Ginette Hamelin | website=Place Ginette Hamelin | url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Place+Ginette+Hamelin,+75012+Paris,+France/@48.8377227,2.3804629,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e67215d461eb79:0xb9d5a42e8fffe7d6!8m2!3d48.8377227!4d2.3826516 | access-date=26 May 2020}}
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Category:Architects from Clermont-Ferrand
Category:French women engineers
Category:20th-century French women
Category:French Resistance members
Category:French people who died in Nazi concentration camps
Category:French people who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp