Elise Rivet born January 19, 1890, in Draria, Algeria – died March 30, 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany, was a Roman Catholic nun and war heroine. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

The daughter of a French naval officer, she joined the convent of the medical sisters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in Lyon. In 1933 she became "Mère Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the convent's Mother Superior. After the fall of France to Germany in World War II, she made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the Gestapo and eventually used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the Mouvements Unis de Résistance (MUR). City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... The Deaths Head emblem, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The   Gestapo? (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ...

On March 24, 1944 she and her assistant were arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the prison at Fort Montluc in Lyon. From there she was taken to Romainville before being shipped to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin, Germany. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. 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 Elise Rivet, on March 30, 1945 only weeks before the war ended. View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1961, the government of France honored her with her portrait on a postage stamp and a street bearing her name in Brignais (Lyon) was inaugurated on December 2, 1979. In 1997, she was posthumously awarded the Médaille des Justes and in 1999 the "Salle Elise Rivet" was named for her at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme in Lyon. 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a list of people on stamps of France. ...