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Andree Geulen-Herscovici.
The Belgian resistance fighter Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died on Wednesday 1 June at the age of in a rest home in Ixelles, Brussels....
A schoolteacher and a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died on June 1 in Ixelles, Belgium, at the age of 100.
As a member of the clandestine Committee for the Defense of Jews, she assisted in the rescue of almost 1,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust, risking her own safety to do so.
Geulen was honored in 1989 with the title of Righteous Among the Nations, and in 2007, was granted honorary Israeli citizenship in a ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Upon accepting the honorific, she said, “What I did was merely my duty. Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do.”
When Geulen notice one of her students at the Gaty de Gamont School in Brussels wearing the yellow star mandated by the Nazis to identify Jews, she instructed all of her students to wear aprons in order to shield her Jewish students from humiliation.
After learning the fate of those Jews captured by the Nazis, she assisted a Jewis