{"id":5138,"date":"2020-09-01T05:44:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5138"},"modified":"2021-03-23T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:41:53","slug":"byck-muriel-tamara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/byck-muriel-tamara\/","title":{"rendered":"Byck, Muriel Tamara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Section Officer, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force\/ Special Operations Executive
Service number 2071428
Died 23 May 1944
Buried Pornic War Cemetery, France
Age 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘HERE RESTS IN PEACE MURIEL T. BYCK OUR ONLY CHILD AND BELOVED DAUGHTER’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muriel was born on 4 June 1918 in Ealing to Jacques Byck and Luba Basia nee Golynska, who both originated from Ukraine. Muriel\u2019s childhood involved a year-long visit to Germany with her family from 1923 to 1924 when they had lived in Wiesbaden and four years in France from 1926 to 1930 where she attended the Lyc\u00e9e de Jeunes Filles<\/em> at St. Germain-en-Laye outside Paris. The family returned to England in 1930, but her parents divorced while Muriel continued her French education at the Lyc\u00e9e Francais in South Kensington, London. She passed her Baccalaur\u00e9at <\/em>in July 1935 and then finished her studies at the Universit\u00e9 de Lille in northern France. Her command of French, which she spoke with no accent, was total and she was also fluent in Russian which had been spoken by her parents. Muriel’s story can be found on the link below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Grateful thanks to Paul McCue for his help and research. https:\/\/www.secret-ww2.net\/<\/a> and to AJEX Archivist, Martin Sugarman https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/daughters-of-yael-two-jewish-heroines-of-the-soe<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n