Liliane Klein-Lieber

Liliane Klein-Lieber (2 June 1924 – 8 July 2020) was a French Resistance member.

Biography

She became in 1931 a member of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EIF).

During the Second World War, she was a social worker in the Grenoble region and was a member of the French Resistance. She found hideouts and provided false papers. During this period, she used the name Lyne Leclerc.

She received the "Lion de Bronze" (in English : Bronze Lion) Award in 2006 for her commitment to the service of this movement.

Klein-Lieber was Jewish, she died on 8 July 2020, aged 96.

In 2021, with the help of Abu and Savannah, an EEIF groupe located in Paris were created with the name "Liliane Klein-Lieber", in order to commemorate Liliane.

Awards

• Legion of Honour
• Cross of the resistance volunteer combatant
• Medal of the City of Paris

Bibliography

• Daniel Lee, Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2014. ,
• Sarah Gensburger, National Policy, Global Memory: The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942–2007, Berghahn Books, 2016. ,

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