Couples Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins as well as Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee have won Valiant Valiant Awards for coupling their efforts to make the world a better place by taking action together. Here is Valiant Valentine Couple #3, whose love for each other, which has already inspired films, books, and videos, and music, will now inspire you.

#3. Nothing says I love you more than risking your life to save the one you love. And this is exactly what Lucie Aubrac did, not once, but twice! And the last time she was pregnant! Lucie Aubrac was a history teacher when she met Raymond, a Jewish engineer and army officer, in France in 1938. After France fell to the Nazis, the two joined the French Resistance, helping found the group Liberation-Sud. In 1943, Raymond, who was now an important leader in the Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo and scheduled for execution. A pregnant Lucie convinced the notorious Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, nicknamed the “Butcher of Lyons,” to let her see Raymond and during the visit, she relayed an escape plan. As he was being driven back to his cell, Lucie and other Resistance members ambushed the truck, freeing Raymond and other Resistance fighters. The two escaped to London, returning to France after the War, with their three children. Although the War was over, they remained committed to justice and freedom, defending immigrants’ rights, drawing attention to France’s treatment of Algeria, and touring France to talk to students about the Resistance, which, Lucie argued, was not over:

Resistance is not just something locked away in the period 1939-45… Resistance is a way of life, an intellectual and emotional reaction to anything which threatens human liberty…The word ‘resistance’ should always be conjugated in the present tense.

Lucie recounted her life in her memoirs Outwitting The Gestapo in 1984. And their story inspired films like Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Army of Shadows Josée Yanne’s Boulevard of Swallows in 1991, and, of course, Claude Berri’s 1997 hit Lucie Aubrac, starring Carole Bouquet and Daniel Auteuil.

So if you’re feeling inspired by Lucie and Raymond’s love and Lucie’s life-saving and life-risking action, and support refugees’ rights. Even before joining the Resistance, Lucie advocated for the rights of refugees. and of course, the Aubracs were refugees themselves, when they lived in England. Check out the IRC’s (International Rescue Committee) Protect Refugees Campaign and urge congress to pass legislation to fix the laws which punish refugees and asylum seekers.