Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is René de Naurois.
The record lists René de Naurois as French Roman Catholic priest, chaplain and ornithologist (1906-2006).
René de Naurois was born at 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1906. His recorded nationality is France.
By occupation René de Naurois was botanist, ornithologist and naturalist - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Commander of the Legion of Honour and Righteous Among the Nations (1988).
René de Naurois died in 2006, aged 100. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Commander of the Legion of Honour
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1988
- Worked as botanist, ornithologist and naturalist
