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Jeanne Letourneau
1895 - 1979 Angers, France. Studied art in Paris and then worked as a drawing teacher at a girls' school in Angers. Jeanne Letourneau was arrested on March 13, 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück as a "political" prisoner. In February 1945, she was transferred to the Rechlin subcamp, and in 1945, shortly before liberation, she was returned to Ravensbrück. "I weighed 33 kilograms and was 80 years old," she wrote about her physical condition at the time of her liberation. After her return, she wrote an account of her time in Ravensbrück concentration camp, which she accompanied with her drawings. She taught again at the Angers high school until 1955.