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About Marie-Louise Charpentier
Marie-Louise Charpentier, also known as Lily Charpentier (1905-1998), was a nurse, social worker, and active member of the French Resistance in Brittany during World War II. Her most well known accomplishment was hiding a Jewish woman and her two grandchildren from German forces and arranging their safe passage to relatives in the south of France. For this, in 1990, she was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Yad Vashem Institute in Israel.
Everything about Marie-Louise Charpentier →- Occupation
- nurse, social and health care assistant, French resistance fighter
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 26, 1905
- Died
- June 24, 1998