Fink/Lurie Family

**Paulette Fink, member of French Resistance, dies at 93, April 2, 2005 (PDF)

Paulette Weil (Oppert) Fink (center) with daughters Francelyne Lurie (left) and Naidene Beecher, 1988.

Mrs. Fink was in the French Resistance. Her husband, Yves Oppert was killed in 1945. Francelyne was hidden in the French village of Le Chambon Sur Lignon, where 3,500 Jews were hidden by Christians not only in Le Chambon but on the entire plateau in many villages. (The number of 5,000 rescued is considered an overstatement by the villagers themselves as well as Nelly Trocme Hewett, daughter of Pastor Andre Trocme and his wife Magda).

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