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| | Élise Rivet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Élise Rivet born January 19, 1890, in Draria, Algeria – died March 30, 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany, was a Roman Catholic nun and war heroine. |
 | | With the end of the War in sight, the Germans began a massive amount of killings in the gas chamber including a weakened and starving Mother Élise Rivet, on March 30, 1945 only weeks before the war ended. |
 | | In 1997, she was posthumously awarded the Médaille des Justes and in 1999 the "Salle Élise Rivet" was named for her at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme in Lyon. |
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