before their departure by submarine; some were radio operators; others brought in funds for the Resistance. For three days he sheltered three allied pilots, an American, a Pole, and an Englishman, who had been shot down. None spoke French and thanks to the Resistance they escaped and were able to reach Spain. In summer 1942 Lévy and his wife left Antibes and went into hiding near Lake Laffrey (Isère), where he remained in the Resistance in Lyon. After returning to Antibes, Lévy was arrested by Italian police on the 4 May 1943 and detained in secret in Nice. During an interrogation he found himself with Peter Churchill and others, but pretended not to know them. He was transferred to Imperia, where he had to break pebbles on the roads, then moved to Chiavari. Amedeo Rocchegiani, who sent money and helped Jewish and political prisoners, organised the escape of Lévy so that he could have found refuge in the hospital in Ancona, but he refused, having given his word as an officer not to escape. In September 1943 the Italians transferred all political prisoners to the Germans. As a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau II, where he endured fifteen months of hell. As Soviet troops were advancing in January 1945, the camp was evacuated and the inmates were sent on a "death march" which lasted 52 days, during which about a quarter died. Lévy died on 24 January, having fallen exhausted on the road between Rybnik and Racibórz, and was probably shot. Recognition Awards World War I World War II Monument A plaque at Cap d'Antibes commemorating the landing of Capt. Peter Churchill from submarine HMS Unbroken on 21 April 1942 pays tribute to Levy. References Further reading Documents-Témoignages-Recherche, publication of the Museum of the Resistance Azuréenne [ archive ], with a testimony of Raymonde Lévy, daughter of Élie Lévy. Louis Aragon, The Killing, Gallimard, 1965, (). In this novel, Louis Aragon, a refugee writer in Nice (character of "Anthoine") with Elsa Triolet (character of "Fougère"), evokes Elie Lévy during the 1939-1940 war: they were then both officers of the body of health in June/July 1940 (Levy as a doctor, Aragon as auxiliary). Claude Bourdet, The Uncertain Adventure - From Resistance to Restoration, Stock, 1975. Thomas Rabino, The Map Network - History of a network of anti-German, anti-Gaullist, anti-communist and anticollaborationist Resistance, Perrin, 2008, (). 1895 births 1945 deaths French