Andree Guelen Herscovici is a Holocaust hero. The Holocaust is a time in World War II when a guy Aldoph Hitler was trying to eliminate the Jews of Europe. She was born in Brussels, Belguim in 1921.At the age of 18, she began teaching at a local school. She soon realized some of her students were wearing The Star of David. The next day she ordered her students to wear aprons to school to cover the humiliating marking impose on the Jews. Then she noticed kids in her class disappearing and she learned that they were Jewish and were sent to concentration camps.
Once she found out, she joined an organization with another woman and they took young children to other parts of the country to be with Christian families. She did this for more than 2 years. She kept records of over hundreds of children in hiding, many of whom never saw their parents again. She saved more than 300 Jewish children in Belgium, however, she saved almost 1,000 children in Europe.
After the war, she married a Jewish survivor and raised 2 children of her own and also maintained contact with some of the Jewish children she saved. She was recognized by Righteous Amount the Nations by Yad Vasham Holocaust Memorial. She was also awarded honorary citizenship of the country of Israel.