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

Liliane Klein-Lieber
Born
Liliane Lieber

(1924-06-02)2 June 1924
Strasbourg, France
Died8 July 2020(2020-07-08) (aged 96)
OccupationResistance member
SpouseThéo Klein
Children3

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She became in 1931 a member of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EIF).[1]

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.[2][3][4][5]

She received the "Lion de Bronze" (in English : Bronze Lion) Award in 2006 for her commitment to the service of this movement.[6]

Klein-Lieber was Jewish,[7] she died on 8 July 2020, aged 96.[1]

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.

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Bibliography edit

  • Daniel Lee, Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2014.[8] ISBN 0198707150, ISBN 9780198707158
  • Sarah Gensburger, National Policy, Global Memory: The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942–2007, Berghahn Books, 2016. ISBN 1785332554, ISBN 9781785332555[9]
  • Les anciens de la Résistance Juive; Georges Loinger (2002). Organisation juive de combat;Résistance-sauvetage, France 1940–1945. Mémoires (in French). Paris: Autrement [de]. p. 447. ISBN 2-7467-0272-X. Ojc2002.

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