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Andrée Geulen, rescuer of Jewish children in Belgium, dies at 100

The Belgian schoolteacher was credited with shepherding 300 to 400 Jewish children to safety during the Holocaust

June 16, 2022 at 9:40 a.m. EDT
For her wartime heroism, Andrée Geulen was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)
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Andrée Geulen, a Belgian schoolteacher who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, holding their hands and comforting them with stories as she spirited them to hiding places where they stayed until liberation, died May 31 at a nursing home in Brussels. She was 100.

A grandson, Nicolas Burniat, confirmed her death but did not cite a cause.