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Yvette Lundy, a figure of the French Nazi Resistance deported to the Ravensbrück camp, has died at 103 in the town of Epernay (northeast), local authorities announced on Sunday.

"Even now, there is a time of day when I think about the countryside ... It is usually at night, before I fall asleep," he said in 2017.

Yvette Lundy, the youngest of seven siblings, was a teacher in Gionges, a wine town in the Champagne region. He joined the resistance network that fabricated false documentation for Jews or for escaped prisoners of war.

On June 19, 1944, the Gestapo arrested her while teaching a class. After passing through a French prison and the Neue Bremm camp near Saarbrücken, in southwestern Germany, she was deported to Ravensbrück.

When crossing the door of this Nazi camp north of Berlin, Lundy felt as if "a layer of lead" fell on his shoulders, seeing the lack of humanity with which they treated the prisoners, forced to undress in front of the SS.

"The body is naked and the brain suddenly becomes a rag: we are like a hole, a hole full of emptiness , and if we look around us, even more empty," Lundy recalled.

Her "robust" constitution and her character helped her survive in this "hell hole", of work, of "dogs and sticks," of exhaustion and death.

It ended up being transferred to Weimar. She was released by the Russian army on April 21, 1945 and returned to France by plane.

From 1959, he began to tell his experience in French and German schools. She stopped doing it in 2017, but the young people still visited her in the nursing home to ask her questions.

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