| LC control no. | no2006084267 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brousse, Jeanne |
| Variant(s) | Maurier, Jeanne EĢlise, 1921-2017 |
| Birth date | 1921-04-12 |
| Death date | 2017-10-19 |
| Place of birth | Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille (France) |
| Place of death | Annecy (France) |
| Field of activity | World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue |
| Profession or occupation | Local officials and employees |
| Found in | Poncet, A. Les armes de Jeanne, 2005: p. 4 of cover (Jeanne Brousse) p. 15 (recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1973) Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 30, 2017 (Jeanne Brousse said she did not know any Jews before she began rescuing them as a young clerk at her local prefecture in Nazi-occupied France; died Oct. 19 [2017] in Annecy, the Alpine town near the Swiss border where she conducted her lifesaving wartime work; she was 96; Jeanne Elise Maurier was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille, near Annecy, on April 12, 1921; in 1944 she married Jean Brousse) |
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