Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe

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Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe, around 1938

Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe (nee Mac Lennan ; born September 2, 1894 - April 19, 1966 ) was a French woman who was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations because she had hidden the Jew Didier Lazard in the Sarthe department during the German occupation .

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Maria-Dolorès Mac Lennan was born on September 2, 1894 to a British family. She married Raymond de Malherbe, the grandson of Raymond de Malherbe , who died in 1932. As a widow, she experienced the Second World War with her son Armand-Guy de Malherbe .

Didier Lazard was born in 1910 as the grandson of the founder of Bank Lazard . He earned a doctorate in law and a degree from the École libre des sciences politiques . As a Jew , he sought refuge in Marçon during the German occupation of France . He was referred to Mrs. de Malherbe by Pastor Bézine. He arrived at the Château de Poillé in Marçon, which belonged to the Malherbe family, and was taken to Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe's apartment, where she and her son Armand-Guy hid from February 1943 to August 1944. The two teenagers became fraternized and Lazard helped Armand-Guy prepare for the school exam.

At the beginning of August 1944, the SS occupied the area and felled trees there to obtain camouflage material. Armand-Guy gave Didier Lazard a gardener's suit so he could escape to a farm. Lazard later returned to Paris and became a journalist, sociologist and professor at the Institut d'études politiques . He died in 2004.

Maria-Dolorès de Malherbe died at the age of 71 on April 19, 1966. On October 20, 2013, she was recognized by the Yad Vashem Memorial as Righteous Among the Nations . The recognition ceremony took place on September 7, 2014.

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SURNAME Malherbe, Maria-Dolorès de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mac Lenny, Maria-Dolorès
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1894
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1966