Janina Lamenta-Liber
Born on 9 February 1926 in Kamieniec Wielkopolski (Poland). Janina’s mother died when she was three. Her father, with the four children and her mother’s sister (whom he later married) emigrated to France in 1930. He worked as a miner in the north of France. The economic crisis forced them to return to Poland from 1935 to 1937. They then came back to France, to work in the mines again, but this time in the Massif Central. Janina was a good student and her Polish teacher encouraged her to go to the high school in Villard-de-Lans, which she did in 1943. She saw the start of the fighting in the Vercors and returned home with some difficulty. On her arrival, she heard the terrible news of the massacre at Vassieux, from which her future husband, Marian Liber, a fellow student, miraculously escaped. Janina finished her studies at the high school in Paris. She and Marian moved to the Metz region, where they taught and then ran a driving school. Janina was very active in the alumni association. She died in 2007.
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