Olga Bancic

Olga Bancic (Romanian: [ˈolɡa ˈbant͡ʃɪk]; born Golda Bancic; also known under her French nom de guerre Pierrette; May 10, 1912–May 10, 1944) was a Romanian communist activist, known for her role in the French Resistance. A member of the FTP-MOI and Missak Manouchian's Group, she was captured by Nazi German forces in late 1943, and executed soon after. Bancic was married to the writer and fellow FTP-MOI fighter Alexandru Jar.

Bancic was born to a Jewish family in Chișinău, Bessarabia, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time; the region became part of the Romanian Kingdom after World War I. She worked in a mattress factory by the age of 12, and joined the local labor movement, taking part in a strike during which she was arrested and allegedly beaten. Bancic, who became a member of the outlawed Romanian Communist Party (PCR), was subsequently arrested several times. In 1936, she traveled to France, where she aided local left-wing activists in transporting weapons to Spanish Republican forces fighting in the Civil War.

Shortly before the outbreak of World war II, Bancic gave birth to Dolores, her daughter with Alexandru Jar. She left her child in the care of a French family following the start of German occupation, and joined the Paris-based Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI), taking part in about 100 sabotage acts against the Wehrmacht, and being personally involved in the manufacture and transport of explosives. This came at a time when the PCR, weakened by successive crackdowns, had become divided into several autonomous groups. Similar to Gheorghe Gaston Marin, Bancic was among the Romanian activists who were integrated into the French Communist Party.

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