sentences:  Both, very religiously committed to Protestantism socially and politically, were given the posthumous title of Righteous among the nations, for having saved eleven Jews during the German occupation.She also was the cousin of the resistant Elisabeth Rioux-Quintenelle and the great niece of one of the initiators of the feminist movement in France, Louise Massebiau-Compain.Hammel, during her year of philosophy, was arrested then judged in Nîmes by the Vichy police force for "antinational propaganda and hostile remarks about the Head of the State" (Pétain).