What would we have done in her place?

Noëlla Rouget is a little-known, yet unique, resistance fighter. She was barely 20 when she saw Angers fall into war and submit to German occupation. Though she was gentle and quiet by nature, she developed a strong rebellious instinct. She joined the resistance, fell in love with a compatriot, fought, took risks, and eventually ended up in prison, saw her fiancé executed, and was deported. For more than a year, she endured the hell of the concentration camp, bonded with Geneviève de Gaulle, the niece of General de Gaulle, who was imprisoned alongside her, and continued to fight. She resisted death, despair, and monstrosity, and was finally freed when she weighed only 32 kilos, her last strength nearly gone.
Yet, despite all she suffered, Noëlla refused to become like the criminals who crushed her. When Jacques Vasseur, the man from Angers who sent her to the camps and caused her fiancé's death, was sentenced to death, she wrote to General de Gaulle, asking him to rise above the Nazis. She succeeded in having his sentence commuted to life in prison.

This journey, spanning several decades and filled with extraordinary courage in both survival and spirit, deeply moved us. It quickly became clear to us that it deserved to be brought to life, to preserve and share Noëlla’s profoundly humanist message—a message shaped not by bitterness from her ordeals but by a deep wisdom. A wisdom that our own time-space continuum greatly needs...

But what would we have done in her place?