 In 1940, she was rounded up in the first "Rafle du billet vert" and taken to the Vel d'Hiv with hundreds of other single Jewish women.From there they were transported to Gurs internment camp in the Pyrenees, a concentration camp run by the French for the Germans.After a few months, she managed to escape and travelled to Montpellier where she enrolled briefly as a student before finding her way to Rodez and to Pastor Exbrayat who helped her to obtain false papers - she became Louise Escoffier from the Alsace region.