Andrée Geulen-Herscovici (born 6 September 1921) is a Belgian educator and philanthropist who, with others, rescued almost 1,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Biography

In 1942, Andrée 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 iden*ies, after the war she attempted to reunite them with their families if any survived.

In 1989, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici was recognized with the honorific Righteous Among the Nations, and on 18 April 2007, she was granted honorary Israeli citizenship in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, as part of the Children Hidden in Belgium During the Shoah International Conference. 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."

She turned 100 on 6 September 2021.

References

External links

• Andree Geulen-Herscovici at Yad Vashem website