Yvonne Nèvejean holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Yvonne Nèvejean as Belgian Righteous Among the Nations.
Yvonne Nèvejean was born at Ghent in 1900. Her recorded nationality is Belgium.
By occupation Yvonne Nèvejean was human rights defender - 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: Righteous Among the Nations (1965).
Yvonne Nèvejean died in 1987, aged 87. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1965
- Worked as human rights defender
