Wanda Delingier-Devillers
Born on 23 February 1927 in Pont-à-Mousson (Meurthe-et-Moselle). The Delingiers lived in Metz, where the father works at the Polish savings bank. The family took refuge in Toulouse when France was invaded. The father worked for the Polish Red Cross and in the Resistance. He was taken prisoner in March 1941. Jerzy, his eldest son, was sent to the high school in Villard-de-Lans at the start of the 1942 school year. Wanda followed him a year later. Jerzy was killed by the Germans during the fighting in Vercors. Wanda, deeply affected, continued her studies at the school until it closed. She then went to the new high school in Paris where she passed her baccalaureate. She studied at the Institut Scientifique de Beauté and went on to work as a beauty care teacher before becoming training director for the French section of the Elena Rubenstein brand. She married Mieczysław Jóżwiak (who died in 1995) and then Guy Devillers. Wanda died in 2018.
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