FRANCE 24 presents

“We’ll make it home
together”

Suzanne and Simone,
a friendship at Ravensbrück
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April 24, 2025

A multimedia documentary by Stéphanie Trouillard and Claire Paccalin

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During the Second World War, an estimated 8,000 women were deported from France to Ravensbrück in Germany, the largest concentration camp for women under the Third Reich. Among them was Suzanne Bouvard, a young woman from Saint-Marcel in Brittany, arrested for having provided first aid to Resistance fighters and parachutists from France libre (Free France). During her time in the camps, she became friends with Simone Séailles, a Resistance member from Paris. In life, and in death, their destinies were bound together.