Lysiane Robinet was the daughter of the French forced laborers Madeleine D. and Edouard Robinet. Madeline D. (whose last name is abbreviated here in keeping with her family’s wishes) was born in Romorantin in 1921. Nothing is known about her childhood and youth in France. She completed training as a stenotypist and, after the German Wehrmacht invaded France, performed forced labor in Germany. In September 1941 she was employed at the AEG company in Berlin as a foreign civilian worker. Lysiane’s father Edouard Camille Eugène Robinet was born in Paris in 1912. After the occupation of France he was taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht and transferred to the VII A prisoner-of-war camp in Moosburg, where he remained captive until 1943. In September of that year, Edouard Robinet was likewise declared a foreign civilian worker and assigned to forced labor as an electrician for two companies in Munich.
From July 1943 onwards, Madeleine D. and Edouard Robinet were lodged in the Gartenheim guesthouse at Ohmstrasse 1 in Munich. The front building of the guesthouse was hit during an air raid in the summer of 1944. Lysiane was born just a few months later, on November 13, 1944. As forced laborers, her parents did not receive enough food or medication and were presumably unable to provide for their baby sufficiently. Little Lysiane Robinet died at 1:30 p.m. on January 7, 1945. She was only 55 days old. Enteritis (an infection of the small intestine) was stated as the cause of death. Three days later, on January 10, 1945, Lysiane was buried in the North Cemetery of Munich. Edouard Robinet and Madeleine D. returned to France after the war. In 1946 they had another daughter; the following year they married. Madeleine Robinet died in 1961, Edouard Robinet in 1965. ((text Loic Masson, editor C. Fritsche, translation J. Rosenthal)
