Andree geulen biography of william

          Geulen, a Belgian woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children as part of the Belgian underground, died in Brussels on May 31 at Yad..

          Andrée Geulen-Herscovici was a Belgian teacher who hid hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, saving them from concentration camps.

        1. Andrée Geulen-Herscovici was a Belgian teacher who hid hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, saving them from concentration camps.
        2. Andrée Geulen: The Belgian teacher who became the rescuer of hundreds of children.
        3. Geulen, a Belgian woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children as part of the Belgian underground, died in Brussels on May 31 at Yad.
        4. The film honors Madame Andree Geulen-Herscovici of Belgium, who rescued 4, Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis.
        5. Andree Geulen holds two Belgian Jewish children she hid and saved during the Second World War in this photo in the museum of the Yad Vashem Holocaust.

          6. Andrée Geulen

          Belgian teacher and resistance member (1921–2022)

          Andrée Geulen-Herscovici (6 September 1921 – 31 May 2022) was a Belgian teacher and member of the resistance during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II.

          After becoming aware of the persecution of Belgian Jews through her employment, she became involved in the Committee for the Defence of Jews (Comité de Défense des Juifs, or CDJ; Joods Verdedigingscomité, JVC) in 1943 and actively assisted with the organisation and protection of "hidden children" amid the Holocaust in Belgium.

          In the aftermath of the war, she was recognised as Righteous among the Nations by the Israeli institute Yad Vashem and received several other honours in Belgium and Israel.

          Biography

          Career and resistance activities

          Andrée Geulen was born in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, on 6 September 1921 into a liberal family of the urban bourgeoisie.[1] After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, the count