of the whereabouts of her niece, assuring her that the place had good living conditions. Marie Laure tried to have her niece released, but without success. 15 June 1942, she tried to visit her, but Laure was no longer strong, as evidenced by a police report of 16 June 1942. In another report, dated 29 June 1942, Gatet was supposedly returned to Bordeaux. On 3 July 1942, Marie Laure received a letter informing her that her niece was detained in prison La Santé Prison in Paris. She had been detained there since 14 June 1942. Gatet communicated with her family for a long time, from autumn 1942, receiving letters and parcels from them. She never talked about her situation in the prison and did not seem worried. On 8 September 1942, one of the letters she wrote to her to Marie Laure referred to Pierre Cartaud and his responsibility for dismantling the resistance network . 12 October 1942, Laure Gatet was transferred to Prison de Fresnes, and could not longer transmit news to her family. She was again transferred, this time to Fort Romainville, on 12 January 1943. Seven days later, she sent a letter to her family, saying she was "very well." Deportation On 23 January 1943, Laure Gatet and one hundred and twenty-one prisoners from the Romainville fort were transferred to Camp de Royallieu in Compiegne, along with hundreds of others from various places of detention, mainly in the occupied zone. This particular convoy, known as Convoi des 31000 collected mostly intellectual members or relatives of the PCF (Danielle Casanova and Charlotte Delbo were among them) and some Gaullists, including Laure Gatet. The next day, two hundred and thirty were brought to the Compiegne station by truck and piled into the train alongside 1,200 men who were already loaded in the cars the day before, for a journey of three days. During the trip, passengers suffered from cold and malnutrition. The men were sent to Oranienburg concentration camp, on the outskirts of Berlin, but the women continued their journey to Poland and Auschwitz. As resistant or "common law", they were not theoretically intended to go to an extermination camp but to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Historians have failed to rationally explain this exception (there were only two convoys of "policies" that led to Auschwitz), except that it could have been an administrative error. When the railcar doors were opened,