Élise Rivet was the Mother Superior at the convent of “Notre Dame de Compassion”, where she not only hid refugees from the gestapo, but also used the convent to stash some weapons &amp; ammunition for the resistance.  She was eventually caught in March of 1944 &amp; sentenced to hard labor at Ravensbrück concentration camp.  About a year later, Élise was murdered along with thousands of others just weeks before the war ended. She volunteered to go into the gas chamber in the place of a mother.