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In 1943, while serving as a social worker in the Rennes office for assistance to families of prisoners of war, she received a visit from an elderly woman, Malka
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Charpentier took the three Jews to a friend's farm about fifteen kilometers from Rennes. The farmer agreed to temporarily house them, but only on the condition that
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our commitment was so obvious due to our rebelliousness against injustice and also because of our patriotism, that it never occurred to any of us that our actions were worth talking about, each success bringing its sufficient reward in
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