Fela Perelman

Fela Perelman (1909-1991) worked to help Jewish people in Belgium during World War II.[1]

She was born in Poland and studied history at the Université libre de Bruxelles.[2] She wrote a doctoral thesis on the Belgian Revolution and Poland in 1830 which was published by the Office de Publicité in 1948.[2]

The Comité de Défense des Juifs was founded in her house in 1942.[2] She ran a center in Belgium for Jewish children, originally a school, where the children were hidden from the Nazis and given to Catholic families.[3] She also helped to establish Belgian refugee houses after World War II, and helped Jewish people going to Palestine through her work as a Mossad operative.[1] She was also important in Alyah Bet.[1] She supported and was on the board of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received an honorary doctorate from them; she was also appointed to the baronage in Belgium in 1983.[1]

She wrote Dans le ventre de la baleine (In the Belly of the Whale), published in 1947.[2] She had also written a first novel that she was taking to Charles Plisnier, but which she lost the manuscript of in May 1940.[2]

She was married to Chaïm Perelman.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Fela and Chaïm Perelman papers".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marriage".
  3. ↑ Alan G. Gross; Ray D. Dearin (2003). Chaim Perelman. SUNY Press. pp. 3–. ISBN 978-0-7914-5559-3.
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