Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Belgian Righteous Among the Nations
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Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Andrée Geulen-Herscovici
- Andrée Geulen-Herscovici (born September 6, 1921) is a Belgian woman who, with others, rescued almost 1000 Jewish children during the Holocaust. 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.In 1989, Andrée Geulen was recognized as a 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 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."
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