With the help of her network, named “Liberation”, Lucie, who was pregnant with the couple’s second child, set up a high-risk ambush and ensured Raymond’s successful escape. The family then had to go into hiding, moving from place to place, hunted down as they went. Thanks to her contacts, Lucie Aubrac reached London on 8 February 1944 with their son. She gave birth to a daughter a few days later, and her battle could have stopped there. But Lucie Aubrac then took an even more active role in Liberation and sat on the Consultative Assembly. She never stopped fighting, teaching, talking about the dark days of collaboration, and the fraternity of the Resistance. She became an activist for Amnesty International, fighting for the undocumented, and summing up her credo in the words, “The word ‘resist’ should always be conjugated in the present tense.”
 
In 1997, the prospect of the Barbie trial and the behavior of the former Gestapo leader’s defense team convinced her that spoken words were no longer enough and she agreed to write her memoires. Claude Berry adapted her book for the cinema, revealing the heroism and greatness of this exceptional woman and the importance of women in general in the French Resistance.
 
“Lucie Aubrac”, directed by Claude Berry (1997).

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