Hélène Fournier

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Hélène Fournier, was a French resistance member, in Indre-et-Loire. She played an active role in smuggling across the demarcation line which separated the occupied zone from Vichy France, from the beginning of the summer of 1940 to 1 March 1943. She was deported to Auschwitz on 24 January 1943 in the convoy of 31,000, of which she was the only survivor. She was awarded the Legion of Honor in March 1966.