Violette Maurice joined the resistance against the Nazis while a student in Lyon. With other students, she founded a clandestine movement called “93.” She was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo and sent to block N.N. of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After one year she was sent to Mauthausen, from which she was freed by the Red Cross in 1945. In 1947 she received the “médaille de la résistance.” She devoted much of her life to writing memoirs, poetry, and essays about the resistance. Maurice died in November 2008.
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