Simone Tanner-Chaumet

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Simone Chaumet (1953)

Simone Tanner-Chaumet (* 1916 in France; † May 25, 1962 in Algeria ) was a French peace activist. She has worked for several years with volunteers from the Service Civil International (SCI) in France and Algeria. In 2011 she was honored by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish children during World War II .

Life

youth

Simone Chaumet was born during the First World War , date and place of birth are not known. She never met her father, who died in the war. Her mother moved to Cannes after her second marriage with her husband and two daughters . In 1942 Chaumet joined the club loisirs action jeunesse (CLAJ). In 1943 she became secretary of the CLAJ, which was associated with the Amitiés Chrétienne organization . While working on the Col du Fanget in the French Alps , she and Jamy (Germaine) Bisserier saved the lives of five Jewish children: François Gelbert, Maurice and Charles Wrobel as well as Gilbert and Maxime Allouche.

At the Service Civil International

The SCI was very important to Simone Chaumet. From 1945 to 1950 she worked as a volunteer in France, from 1951 to 1956 as a long-term volunteer in Algeria. She married the SCI secretary Emile Tanner. A school was founded in Bouzareah, a suburb of Algiers . She wanted to help people who could not read or write and give children an education.

Death and remembrance

On May 25, 1962, Simone Tanner-Chaumet and her husband were murdered during the clashes of the Algerian War of Independence .

On May 7, 2005, a memorial plaque for Simone Tanner-Chaumet was inaugurated on the Col du Fanget. Three rescued persons (François Gelbert, Gilbert and Maxime Allouche) were present. On October 24, 2011, she was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel in Paris . She and her husband were also added to the list of people who disappeared during the Algerian war by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chaumet Simone .
  2. ^ Philipp Rodriguez: Simone Tanner-Chaumet - Archives of Service Civil International. Retrieved March 20, 2018 (French).
  3. ^ Philipp Rodriguez: Service Civil International - Archives of Service Civil International . In: archives.sci.ngo .
  4. ↑ Le comité Français for Yad Vashem ( fr )
  5. ^ Philipp Rodriguez: Simone Tanner-Chaumet - Archives of Service Civil International. Retrieved March 20, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ ajpn, Hellen Kaufmann, Bernard Lhoumeau, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France: Simone Chaumet .
  7. ^ The Wall of the Missing List . In: Cercle Algérianiste . Retrieved July 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Tanner-Chaumet, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaumet, Simone (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH France
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1962
Place of death Algeria