Biography

In 1989 she was recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Belgian schoolteacher who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust. She escorted them to farms, convents, boarding schools, and the homes of host families, where she and her colleagues in the Resistance arranged for them to live under assumed Christian identities. The youngest children were five or six days old, handed over by their mothers in hospital maternity wards and taken to places where they would be safer until the liberation of Belgium.