Andree Guelen Herscovici

A teacher in Belgium who began rescue work when her Jewish

students began getting deported.

Andree Guelen Herscovici

Andree Geulen in Brussels during German occupation.

• In 1942 Ms. Guelen was working as a school teacher in Brussels at the age of 20, when the Gestapo arrived to arrest some of her Jewish students. After she decided to take part in a Jewish rescue organization called Comité de Défense des Juifs.

WHAT SHE DID

• For more than 2 years she moved Jewish children to live with Christian families. She would still visit them and care for there needs after they were moved. Guelen saved 300 Jewish children by the end of the war.

CDJ

• Andree Guelen Herscovici and members from CDJ. Guelen is the 6th from the right.

AFTER THE WAR

• She kept secret records of the children she helped. Guelen found their true identities, and after the war she tried to reunite the children who survived with their parents.

Guelen records of the children under her care.

AWARDS

• In 1989 Guelen was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations. On April 18, 2007 she was awarded honorary Israeli citizenship at a ceremony at Yad Vashem. The ceremony was a part of the Children Hidden in Belgium During the Shoah International Conference. Guelen receiving the Israeli

citizenship award.

QUOTES & VIDEOS

• "What I did was merely my duty. Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do," 

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