Antoinette Feuerwerker

Antoinette Feuerwerker (born Antoinette, Antonia, Toni, Toibe Rochel Gluck ), born on November 24th 1912 with Antwerp (Borgherout), Belgium, was a French teacher and lawyer.

Biography

Antoinette Feuerwerker was the girl of Paul (Pinchas) Gluck-Friedman (1886-1964) and of Henia Shipper (1887-1968), respectively born in Tarnow and Przemysl, Galicie, Austria-Hungary.

His/her father was downward direct Masters hassidic going back to Magid Dov Baer de Mezeritch (1704-1772), the disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), the founder of the Hassidisme.

His/her parents were established Poland in Belgium. From there, they leave food in Suisse (during the First World War), where his/her two sisters Rose and Hedwig and her Solomon brother were born. They will live then in Germany, and finally in France, where they became French citizens.

She studied with the famous college of Pontonniers (aujourdhui called International Lycée of Pontonniers) with Strasbourg, where she finished her secondary studies. After its baccalaureat, it became coed with the Faculty of Law, which was rare at that time for an young woman. One of its professors, Rene Capitant (1901-1970), became later Minister for education (1944-1945) in the provisional government and Minister of Justice and Minister for the justice (1968-1969) of Charles de Gaulle. She worked in the study of Capitant.

She also finished HEC. For its academic works in right and economy, it was stock exchange state. With its family, it left Strasbourg to be established has Paris.

She became acquainted with David Feuerwerker, a young person Rabbin, who had just finished his rabbinical studies (at the rabbinical School from France, in Paris). They marry at the beginning of the Second world war (in November 1939). To be able to marry, David Feuerwerker had to receive a special permission to leave the face, the Ligne Maginot which it joined a few days later.

After June 1940, with her husband, it leaves the capital and will be established with Brive-the-Strapping woman. David Feuerwerker is the rabbi of three departments: the Corrèze, the Digs and the Lot. They engage in the movement of the Résistance " Combat " (the principal organization of Resistance) with Edmond Michelet (1899-1970), the future minister of Charles de Gaulle: Minister for the armies (1946), Minister of Justice and Minister for justice (1959-1961). Fighting voluntary the resistant one, it receives the Medal of France released for its participation in the release of France

It will receive other medals of the French government: the academic Palms and the medal of the public health, for its contributions to public education and the public health.

Here how the movement " Combat " described its participation in Resistance officially: " Mrs Antoinette Feuerwerker born Gluck took an active part narrowly and in all the resistant activities of her husband, the Feuerwerker Rabbi, in particular for the search and the lodging for liaison officers and the diffusion of the clandestine newspapers. She dealt with Germaine Ribière the evacuation of young people sought by the occupying authority. In short the Movement " Combat" regarded as one of its more active agents. (Date of entry in Resistance: beginning fights January 1942 and until the Release). " German Ribière (1917-1999), a heroin of the second world war, was recognized like a Juste among the nations (July 18th 1967, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel).

David and Antoinette Feuerwerker had six children (Atara, Natania, Elie, Hillel, Emmanuel, and Benjamine). Only the elder one, Atara, was born (in 1943) during the war, in Clairvivre, Salagnac, the Dordogne. The other children were born later has Paris XVIe (7, rue Narcisse Diaz).

After the war, Antoinette Feuerwerker lives with Lyon, where her husband is the Large-Rabbi (1944 - 1946). They are established then with Neuilly-sur-Seine, where her husband is the rabbi (1946 - 1948). They remain then, in the middle of Paris, to the 14, Place of the Vosges, in the district of the Marais (1948 - 1966), where her husband becomes the rabbi of famous the Synagog of the street of the Small towers.

It was it near collaborator to her husband, within the framework of its multiple activities, in particular for the search and the publication for its traditional work on l'" Emancipation of the Jews in France of the Old Mode At the end of Second Empire" (1976).

They were established then with Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1966, with their children.

She teaches the right and the saving with the French College in Montreal.

David Feuerwerker is deceased on June 20th 1980. She continues has to maintain her place of prayers (" Chachmei Tzorfat" , " The Wise ones of France"), during more than twenty years.

She spends the three last years of her life in Israel. She died on February 10th 2003. She is buried with Sanhedria, Jerusalem, Israel, at the sides of her husband.

To escape the Nazis, in the last months of the second world war, it had to hide, with its baby, Atara, in a catholic convent, surviving with a water and potato mode. It was hidden later by Germaine Goblot - the girl of Edmond Goblot, the famous philosopher of sciences - who risked, for it, its life and that of his/her mother and her son (François Goblot).

It saved the life of her sister, Pink Gluck-Warfman, who was off-set has Auschwitz. Only with the return of Rose, it realized that its actions had made it possible his/her sister to survive. She saved many other lives, but never comforted itself not to have been able to save the life of his/her brother, a young doctor, Dr. Solomon Gluck, 29 years old. It was off-set of France by convoy 73 , which finished with Kaunas in Lithuania and Revel (aujourdhui called Tallin) in Estonia, never not to return.

It contributed to the adventure of the famous boat l'" Exodus ". Money intended for the " Exodus " he was entrusted to Neuilly-sur-Seine. The gold coins, illegal in France at that time for deprived, were hidden by it under the bed of her husband, without he not knowing it. She had thought with accuracy that nobody would suspect it. She had a major and durable influence on those which she met. Its philosophy was: " never not to give up, never ". She gave up, never.

References

David Feuerwerker. Emancipation Of the Jews In France. Old Mode At the end of the Second Empire . Albin Michel: Paris, 1976. ISBN 2-226-00316-9
John F. Sweets. The Politics off Resistance in France, 1940-1944 . Northern Illinois University Near: De Kalb, 1976. ISBN 0-87580-061-0
Edmond Michelet. Street of Freedom. Dachau 1943-1945 . Threshold: Paris, 1955,1983. of Charles de Gaulle; also with Foreword for the German edition of Konrad Adenauer. ISBN 2-02-003025-X
Elie Feuerwerker. The Rabbi Dr. David Feuerwerker, ZT' L (October 2nd, 1912 - June 20th, 1980 /21 Tichri 5673-6 Tamouz 5740). The Combat of a Life. Re-examined History of Hebraic Medicine: Selected studies Of the Review Of History of Hebraic Medicine (1948-1980) . Brill: Netherlands, 2003]. ISBN 978-900-412-522-3
Margaret L. Rossiter. Women In The Resistance . Praeger: New York, 1986. ISBN 0-03-005339-0
Andre Kaspi. Jews during the Occupation . Threshold: Paris, 1991. ISBN 2-02-013509-4
Susan Zuccotti. The Holocaust, The French, And The Jews . BASIC Books: New York, 1993. ISBN 0-465-03034-3
Margaret Weitz Hakes. Sisters in the Resistance. How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 . John Wiley: New York, 1995. ISBN 0-471-12676-4
Michele Cointet. the Church under Vichy. 1940-1945. The repentance in question. Perrin: Paris, 1998. ISBN 2-262-01231-8
Catherine Poujol. David Feuerwerker, Rabbi, Resistant, Teacher, Historian. Jewish Files , Paris, 2002.

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