One was a householder, the other was an entrepreneur, wealthy or modest, believers or not, they put their lives in danger to save that of Jews chased by the Nazis.
The exceptional destinies of these "Righteous Among the Nations" are drawn from the shadows by an exhibition full of humanity devoted to them in the Alsatian capital.
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They were called Marie and Georges, Camille and Anne, Adélaïde, Pierre… These 78 women and men have in common, in addition to their link with Alsace, to have taken part in the rescue of Jews during the last war.
Often, they have hidden children, falsified papers, supported escape routes, like the 4202 Righteous of France listed by the Yad Vashem institute in Jerusalem.
Only three of them lived in Alsace-Moselle annexed by Hitler in June 1940, from where the Jews had been banished.
Evacuated with their Alsatian compatriots in September 1939, the 20,000 Jews were forbidden to return after the armistice of June 1940. Those
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