"As a holocaust survivor, she spent innumerable hours over the course of 60 years in instructing and giving testimony about her wartime experiences to children from grammar school through college....During the war...she worked as a social worker with displaced children and placed them in non-Jewish homes through her underground connections. Toward the end of the occupation and after liberation, she also helped adults and elderly people who were in hiding....[She and Stanley] were married by the Mayor of Paris in the Paris City Hall on Dec, 9, 1944 and the religious ceremony was performed by the chief Orthodox Rabbi of Paris."
Her husband of 41 years, Stanley A. Schorr died in 1986.
She died at her residence in Natick, MA on Friday, May 7th.
"When Denise Khaitman married Stanley Schorr on December 9, 1944, a Paris newspaper hailed the union as the first between an American officer and a French woman since the liberation of Paris in August of that year. 'We met on my birthday, September 20,' recalls Denise."
By Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and Barbara Smith Scibetta. War Brides World War II. Yankee Magazine. Volume 50, Issue No. 3. March 1986. http://archive.yankeemagazine....
"As a holocaust survivor, she spent innumerable hours over the course of 60 years in instructing and giving testimony about her wartime experiences to children from grammar school through college....During the war...she worked as a social worker with displaced children and placed them in non-Jewish homes through her underground connections. Toward the end of the occupation and after liberation, she also helped adults and elderly people who were in hiding....[She and Stanley] were married by the Mayor of Paris in the Paris City Hall on Dec, 9, 1944 and the religious ceremony was performed by the chief Orthodox Rabbi of Paris."
Her husband of 41 years, Stanley A. Schorr died in 1986.
She died at her residence in Natick, MA on Friday, May 7th.
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"When Denise Khaitman married Stanley Schorr on December 9, 1944, a Paris newspaper hailed the union as the first between an American officer and a French woman since the liberation of Paris in August of that year. 'We met on my birthday, September 20,' recalls Denise."
By Elfrieda Berthiaume Shukert and Barbara Smith Scibetta. War Brides World War II. Yankee Magazine. Volume 50, Issue No. 3. March 1986.
http://archive.yankeemagazine....