- Holocaust survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was interned as an agent of the French Resistance.
- Fled Francoist Spain for France in 1939. When Hitler's forces invaded in 1940, she joined the French resistance with her husband, Albert Roger, a Frenchman. She carried weapons, falsified documents, and messages under her headscarf or under a basket of vegetables on her bicycle through Nazi checkpoints. When a collaborator betrayed her, she was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück, while her husband was sent to Bergen-Belsen. He died within days of liberation in 1945.
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