As a member of the Libération-Nord and the " Shelburn " network , Michelis was involved in the rescue of airmen and escaped prisoners who found their way to the countryside of Picardy . It was for her actions in the period between November 1943 and February 1944 that she was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom by the United States . She was arrested at Amiens railway station on 12 February 1944 and taken to the Gestapo headquarters at the Lycée Montaigne in Paris for questioning . The official version of her death given by her superiors in the Resistance was that she had committed suicide on 15 February rather than face further interrogation . Two other teachers arrested at around the same time , Thérèse Pierre and Suzanne Blin , also died while under arrest
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Madeleine Michelis