Andrée Geulen-Herscovici

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Andrée Geulen-Herscovici (born September 6, 1921) is a Belgian educator and philanthropist who, with others, rescued almost 1000 Jewish[1] children during the Holocaust.

Biography[]

In 1942, the then Ms. Geulen was working as a schoolteacher in Brussels when the Gestapo arrived to arrest the Jewish children. She decided to join Jewish rescue organization Comité de Défense des Juifs. For more than two years, she moved Jewish children to live with Christian families and monasteries. She would continue to visit them and care for their needs. By keeping a secret record of the children's true identities, after the war she attempted to reunite them with their families if any survived.[2]

In 1989, Andrée Geulen was recognized with the honorific Righteous Among the Nations, and on April 18, 2007, she was granted honorary Israeli citizenship in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, as part of the .[3] Upon accepting the honor, Geulen-Herscovici said, "What I did was merely my duty. Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do."[4]

She turned 100 on 6 September 2021.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Melissa Weiss "Andree Guelen Herscovici, Belgium" The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
  2. ^ Andrée Geulen | "Their Fate Will Be My Fate Too…" Teachers Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust An online exhibition by Yad Vashem. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  3. ^ Belgian who Rescued 300 Children to Receive Honorary Citizenship at Yad Vashem Ceremony Tomorrow, Yad Vashem, April 17, 2007
  4. ^ Woman honored for saving kids from Nazis, Aron Heller, Associated Press, April 18, 2007
  5. ^ "Andrée Geulen, l'institutrice bruxelloise qui a sauvé des milliers d'enfants juifs pendant la guerre, fête ses 100 ans". Medias De Bruxelles. Retrieved 12 September 2021.

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