Claire Monis was a French singer, actress, and Lieutenant in the French resistance.
22 Facts About Claire Monis
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Claire Monis was a Holocaust survivor as a member of the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra.
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Claire Monis was born on 10 February 1922 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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Claire Monis's parents, Avroum Monis, a theatre bellman, Klezmer clarinet and accordion player, a cabinet maker, and Suzanne Aisenstein, originally from Russia, emigrated to France beginning of the 20th century, fleeing the anti-Semitic pogroms in Russia.
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In 1938, Claire Monis won the "music-hall des jeunes", a competition organized by the French federation of communist youths, which led her to take part with Pierre Dac in the youth gala.
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Claire Monis participated, notably with Paul Meurisse and Marguerite Gilbert, in the grand opening gala of the cabaret " A la Cave de la Cloche ".
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Claire Monis participated in the programme of the cabaret " L'Ecrin ", 19 rue Joubert Paris 9e, with Leo Marjane, Jacqueline Figus and Jean Solar.
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Claire Monis was a Resistance fighter in the Free French Forces and the Fighting French Forces within the Robin-Buckmaster network created by Jacques Weil and of which she was the secretary.
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Claire Monis used her singing tour to inform her network.
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Claire Monis was arrested on 22 June 1942 at 6, place du Combat in Paris, and sent to Fresnes prison, then interned on 10 September 1942 at the Autun citadel in the Saone-et-Loire department.
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Claire Monis declared herself to be non-Jewish and tried in vain to obtain a Catholic baptism certificate.
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Claire Monis escaped the extermination after being recruited into the Auschwitz women's orchestra as a singer in the orchestra led by Alma Rose.
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Claire Monis was repatriated by truck on 17 May 1945 to Paris.
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Claire Monis obtained her certificate as part of the French Fighting Force with the rank of Lieutenant of the French Resistance.
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Claire Monis met Charles-Henri Kahn in 1945 at a Gaullist rallye and married him in 1947 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
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Claire Monis was granted the status of the "ward of the Nation", after her death, thanks to Monis's anticipation.
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Claire Monis pursued her career as a violinist and singer and frequently received her friends from the Resistance and musicians around the family piano.
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Claire Monis played with Luis Mariano in 1948 in the operetta Andalousie by Francis Lopez at the Gaite-Lyrique, and performed the role again in 1949 and 1950 in Lyon.
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Claire Monis then became a producer at ORTF and Radio France.
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Claire Monis was hit by a car in front of her parents' shop at 11 Rue du Faubourg du Temple, at 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Claire Monis died a few days later as a result of this accident, on 25 October 1967 at her home in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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Claire Monis was buried on 27 October 1967 in the Parisian cemetery of Bagneux.