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informed her of the whereabouts of her niece, assuring her that the place had good living conditions. Marie Laure tried to have her niece released, but without success. 15 June 1942, she tried to visit her, but Laure was no longer strong, as evidenced by a police report of 16 June 1942. In another report, dated 29 June 1942, Gatet was supposedly returned to
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on the left forearm and registered under registration number 31833, and underwent various tests. With the other women of the convoy, she was then quarantined in Block No. 14, given chores and undernourished. This was often enough to kill the older prisoners. The survivors were then taken to the main
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Gatet's family in 1912. Standing from left to right: Marie Laure
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She found that she was not attracted to profession of pharmacist dispensary, so she finally decided to move towards biochemistry, and at the end of 1936, she was accepted at the
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photography. The living conditions became worse for all the prisoners. Since 24 January 1943, any form of communication between Gatet and her family had been broken, while they tried in vain to find information about her whereabouts by sending letters to various public authorities.
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of PĂ©rigueux, on the site of her old girls high school, was named after her on 11 June 1969. This was after building renovations and decision of the municipal council. Additionally, the street where Gatet was arrested by the SS on 10 June 1942, in
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Schutzenberger Foundation offered her a scholarship of 10,000 francs for one year. Gatet was then subsidized by the
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propaganda, a dangerous mix that scared her secretary. Gatet and other resistant members in the CND network gathered each Sunday morning in Victor Hugo
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on 2 October 1951. Her name also appears on a plaque in memory of the dead students of France, placed in the lobby of the former faculty of medicine and pharmacy of
Bordeaux. A monument in her honor was erected in April 1997, in
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and information exchanges between France and its neighboring countries. Spotted by the German police, she was arrested on the evening of 10 June 1942 and detained in several prisons before being transferred to the
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began. According to a testimony from Gatet's mother dating from 1955, at that time "Laure still hopes that France will be saved, she does not accept the occupation, often at night, I hear her cry" .
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station by truck and piled into the train alongside 1,200 men who were already loaded in the cars the day before, for a journey of three days. During the trip, passengers suffered from cold and
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that was sorely lacking in the German industry during the war. Gatet died before the program began in the middle of the month. No obituary was sent by the
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were among them) and some Gaullists, including Laure Gatet. The next day, two hundred and thirty were brought to the
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