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Paulette Weill Oppert Fink

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Paulette Weill Oppert Fink · Israel & Modern Innovation

What

After Paulette Fink’s husband, serving in the French Army, escaped capture, Fink and her family fled to the unoccupied zone of France and joined the Resistance, hiding Jewish children and helping them escape.

When

22 October 1911

Biography

Paulette Weill Oppert Fink is recognized among Israeli contributors to Israel & Modern Innovation — After Paulette Fink’s husband, serving in the French Army, escaped capture, Fink and her family fled to the unoccupied zone of France and joined the Resistance, hiding Jewish children and helping them escape.

How & why

After Paulette Fink’s husband, serving in the French Army, escaped capture, Fink and her family fled to the unoccupied zone of France and joined the Resistance, hiding Jewish children and helping them escape. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Rhoda G. Lewin, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Rhoda G. Lewin

Contributions & Sources

After Paulette Fink’s husband, serving in the French Army, escaped capture, Fink and her family fled to the unoccupied zone of France and joined the Resistance, hiding Jewish children and helping them escape.

1911

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Rhoda G. Lewin