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Yvette Lundy, French resistance heroine, dies aged 103

Schoolteacher helped Jewish people hide and survived Nazi concentration camps
Yvette Lundy was made a grand officer of the Légion d’honneur in 2017. Photograph: François Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images

Yvette Lundy, a heroine of the French resistance who survived detention in German concentration camps, has died aged 103.

The schoolteacher supplied fake papers to Jewish people and others being rounded up by the Gestapo and sent them to hide at her older brother Georges’ farm.

She and her brother were arrested and

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