Liliane Klein-Lieber Explained

Liliane Klein-Lieber
Birth Name:	Liliane Lieber
Birth Date:	2 June 1924
Birth Place:	Strasbourg, France
Death Place:	9th arrondissement of Paris, France
Spouse:	Théo Klein
Children:	3
Occupation:	Resistance member

Liliane Klein-Lieber (2 June 1924 – 8 July 2020) was a French Resistance member.

Biography

She became in 1931 a member of the Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EIF).^[1]

During the Second World War, she was a social worker in the Grenoble region and was a member of the French Resistance. She found hideouts and provided false papers. During this period, she used the name Lyne Leclerc.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

She received the "Lion de Bronze" (in English : Bronze Lion) Award in 2006 for her commitment to the service of this movement.^[6]

Klein-Lieber was Jewish,^[7] she died on 8 July 2020, aged 96.

In 2021, with the help of Abu and Savannah,an EEIF groupe located in Paris were created with the name "Liliane Klein-Lieber", in order to commemorate Liliane.

Awards

• Legion of Honour
• Cross of the resistance volunteer combatant
• Medal of the City of Paris

Bibliography

• Daniel Lee, Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2014.^[8],
• Sarah Gensburger, National Policy, Global Memory: The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942–2007, Berghahn Books, 2016., ^[9]
• Book: fr. Les anciens de la Résistance Juive. Georges Loinger. Organisation juive de combat;Résistance-sauvetage, France 1940–1945. . Mémoires. Paris. 85. 2002. 447. 2-7467-0272-X. Ojc2002.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hommage – Disparition de Liliane Klein Lieber, "a little big woman". July 9, 2020. CRIF.
2. Web site: Liliane et Jonathan : grand-mère et petit-fils unis par la Résistance | L'écume d'un jour. 12 May 2017 .
3. Web site: Modele. www.resistancejuive.org.
4. Web site: Liliane Klein-Lieber. November 18, 2015. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.
5. Web site: Grenoble Libérée – Grenoble 40–44, une ville en résistance. www.grenoble-resistance.com.
6. Web site: Lion de bronze EEIF | le-scout.fr.
7. Web site: Oral testimony of Liliane Klein-Lieber - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=pdJFAwAAQBAJ&dq=Liliane+Klein-Lieber+%E2%80%8E&pg=PA76 Daniel Lee. Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 2014, p. 76.
9. Book: Gensburger, Sarah . National Policy, Global Memory: The Commemoration of the "Righteous" from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007 . 2016-07-01 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78533-255-5 . en.