Maria Edwards MacClure ( Spanish: María Edwards Mac Clure December 11, 1893 , Santiago , Chile - June 8, 1972 , ibid.) (Also known as Maria de Edwards Errasuris , Maria Errasuris or Madame Errasuris ) - Chilean citizen , a member of the French Resistance , who saved Jewish children during the Holocaust in France .
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Biography
Maria Edwards was born in Santiago, in the family of Agustin Edwards Ross and Maria Louise McClure Ossandon. Being very young, she married the diplomat Guillermo Errasuris Vergara. After the wedding, they moved to Paris , where her husband took a diplomatic post. Guillermo committed suicide in 1922 , and Maria remained to live in France. In 1926, she remarried the French writer Jacques Feydo, but they soon divorced. [one]
During the German occupation, she worked as a nurse at the Rothschild Hospital. She became a member of the French resistance and repeatedly saved Jewish children whom the Nazis planned to send to concentration camps to subsequently destroy. In particular, Maria saved Betty and Marcel Friedman , whose mother was killed by the Nazis [2] .
The Gestapo arrested Mary, she was interrogated and tortured, she miraculously managed to survive.
Maria Edwards died in Santiago on June 8, 1972 .
Rewards
On September 2, 1953, Maria Edwards was awarded the Legion of Honor for her services to France.
In 2005, the Institute of Catastrophe and Heroism Yad Vashem awarded her the honorary title of the Righteous of the World [3] . The award ceremony with the participation of two granddaughters of Mary Edwards took place on November 7, 2006 in Santiago with the participation of Israeli Ambassador to Chile David Cohen [4] .
See also
Samuel del Campo
Notes
- ↑ Francisco Siredey. Retrato de dos Marias , El Semanal de La Tercera , 08.25.2013
- ↑ Los Justos de las Naciones (Spanish) . Yad Vashem . Date of treatment March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem
- ↑ Homenaje póstumo a María Edwards Mac Clure
Links
- Entregarán condecoración a chilena que salvó a niños judíos en París (Spanish)
- מריה אראסוריס - חסידי אומות העולם - יד ושם (Hebrew) . Yad Vashem . Date of treatment March 12, 2015.