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Anne Marie Guillot, France
Born and raised in a farming family in the south of France, Anne Marie Guillot was 34 years old and married, but childless, at the outbreak of war in 1939.
Anne Marie spent the war years in Sainte-Bazeille, where she and her husband ran a general store. They were in the unoccupied Free Zone, but close to the Demarcation Line of the German Occupied Zone.
Anne Marie and her husband volunteered to work for the French Résistance.
Anne Marie spent the war years in Sainte-Bazeille, where she and her husband ran a general store. They were in the unoccupied Free Zone, but close to the Demarcation Line of the German Occupied Zone.
Anne Marie and her husband volunteered to work for the French Résistance.
Her group’s mission was to rescue Jews and others fleeing Nazi persecution.
From 1942 to 1945, Anne Marie saved the lives of nine Jewish people: the Chief Rabbi of Bordeaux, his wife and three children, and four other children under the Rabbi’s protection.