Madeleine Barot

Madeleine Barot (July 4th 1909, Chateauroux - December 28th 1995, Paris) cumulates a recognition for its role in the Protestantisme French and for its engagement for the oecumenism and of the defense of the Human rights.

Biography

From 1927 to 1934, it continued academic works in the Sorbonne, prepared a license, a diploma of higher learning of History, then a diploma of the files and libraries. It was in 1934 trainee at the National library, then archivist-librarian at the French School of Rome of 1935 in June 1940. It militated early for a universal Fédération of Christian associations of students. It was named on August 15th, 1940, during a meeting of the persons in charge of the youth movements, general secretary of the Cimade (succeeding Georgette Siegrist) and remained it until 1956. Madeleine Barot who was stimulating Cimade, the initiator of the entry in the camps, a Christian woman engaged in the History full with a “untameable energy”, was also a person which “had the direction of the networks” and of the international one. Thus in July - August 1939, it chaired one of the commissions of the World conference of the Christian youth of Amsterdam, organized by Visser' T Hooft, (joining together, with the world plan, the whole of the youth movements of Protestant obedience) thus taking part in the mixing of idea of pre-war period and the construction of a spirit of Resistance. In 1953, Madeleine Barot is in charge of the department " The man and the woman in the Church and the société" within COE. It will do a large work for the recognition of the place of the woman in the Church. Implying itself more and more, it will occupy of the important stations:

at the commission of " participation of the Churches in the développement"
at the Protestant federation of France
to the ACAT, Action of the Christians for the abolition of torture
with the Conference of the religions for peace

All this, without never forsaking its action with the Cimade.

In 1988, the Mémorial of Yad Vashem decrees the statute of " to him; Just among the Nations " , created to honor the people, known and less known, who took part during the Third Reich, a little everywhere in Europe, sometimes without being fully aware of it, with the protection of a few persecuted thousands of Juif S.

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