07-10-2020, 10:01 AM
France has its own Greatest Generation, itself fading.
Liliane Klein-Lieber (2 June 1924 – 8 July 2020) was a French resistance member.
She became in 1931 a member of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EIF), a movement which would become her second family.[1]
During the Second World War, she was a social assistant [fr] 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" (translated: Bronze Lion) in 2006 for her commitment to the service of this movement.[6]
Klein-Lieber died on 8 July 2020, aged 96.[1]
Liliane Klein-Lieber (2 June 1924 – 8 July 2020) was a French resistance member.
She became in 1931 a member of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EIF), a movement which would become her second family.[1]
During the Second World War, she was a social assistant [fr] 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" (translated: Bronze Lion) in 2006 for her commitment to the service of this movement.[6]
Klein-Lieber died on 8 July 2020, aged 96.[1]
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.