Laure Gatet
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Laure Gatet was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.
Laure Gatet in 1940.
Gatet at age 2.
Gatet's family in 1912. Standing from left to right: Marie Laure Malassenet, (Laure Gatet's aunt whom she later stayed with) Louis Eugene Gatet, (Laura's father) Marguerite Agathe (her mother) Seated left to right: Marie Laure Martin, wife of Félix and Laure Malassenet maternal grandmother, Felix Malassenet, maternal grandfather of Laura.
La Sante Prison in Paris where Gatet was held for a while
Convoi des 31000
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The Convoi des 31000 or Convoy of the 31000s was a deportation convoy that left Romainville, France, for Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 24 January 1943. The women who were transported were mostly Communist Party members or Resistance fighters. Its name stemmed from the fact that the women were assigned numbers between 31625 and 31854 when they reached Auschwitz. It was the only convoy to transport women of the French Resistance to Auschwitz. Out of 230 women who arrived at the concentration camp, only 49 survived their ordeal. A number of women from the convoy testified against the Nazis after the war, wrote autobiographies, were awarded the Legion of Honour or were decreed to be Righteous Among the Nations.
The entrance to Fort Romainville during the interwar period
Car of a freight train used for the Holocaust Trains now on display at Auschwitz transformed into a memorial site.
Interior of a cell block in Auschwitz
Female prisoners in Ravensbrück with white crosses on their clothes.