Her life story sounds like a romantic suspense movie from the '40s.
Ginette Marie Andrée Weiner was born in France in 1924. When Germany invaded during World War II, Weiner became a secret messenger for the French Resistance.
Once a week, Weiner would ride her bicycle 25 miles to deliver the forged German papers her father made in a secret room inside their house. Weiner was a pretty girl, and she flirted with the German soldiers to get past the check points. The papers she carried then helped French soldiers escape the Nazis.
After the war, Weiner fell in love with an American GI, married, and moved to the states where she taught French and did French translations for a Canadian company.
Weiner died on July 1 from complications associated with diabetes. She was 78.
Posted on July 11, 2003 1:23 PM