Antoinette Feuerwerker Antoinette Feuerwerker ( 1912 – 2003 ) was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War . Biography . Antoinette ( Antonia , Toni , Toibe Rochel ) Gluck was born on November 24 , 1912 , in Antwerp ( Borgherout ) , Belgium . She was the daughter of Paul ( Pinchas ) Gluck - Friedman and Henia Shipper . Her father was a direct descendant of Hasidic leaders going back to the Magid Dov Ber of Mezeritch . During World War I , the family moved from Poland to Belgium , and from there to Switzerland where her three siblings , Rose Warfman , Hedwig [ Heidi ] , and Salomon Gluck were born , then to Germany , and finally to France , where they became citizens . Feuerwerker studied at the Lycée des Pontonniers ( now Lycée international des Pontonniers ) in Strasbourg . After her Baccalauréat , she studied law , a rarity in those days for a woman . One of her professors , René Capitant , became Minister of Education ( 1944 – 1945 ) in the Provisional Government and Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) ( 1968 – 1969 ) under Charles de Gaulle . She worked in René Capitant ' s law firm . She also graduated from business school ( HEC ) . With her family , she moved to Paris , where she met David Feuerwerker , a young rabbi . They married in November 1939 , at the beginning of World War II . David , deployed at the Maginot Line , had to obtain a special permit to attend the wedding . In June 1940 , Feuerwerker moved to Brive - la - Gaillarde where her husband was the rabbi of three French Departments : Corrèze , Creuse , and Lot . They joined the Resistance movement " Combat " ( the main Movement of the Résistance ) to fight the Nazis . After the war , they moved to Lyon , where David Feuerwerker served as chief rabbi ( 1944 – 1946 ) . From 1946 to 1948 , David Feuerwerker was the rabbi of Neuilly - sur - Seine , outside Paris . From 1948 to 1966 , they lived in Paris , in the Marais district , where her husband became the rabbi of the Rue des Tournelles synagogue . Feuerwerker collaborated with her husband in his research on the emancipation of the Jews of France . In 1966 , they settled in Montreal , Quebec , where Feuerwerker taught law and economics at the Collège Français . Feuerwerker and her husband had six children : Atara , Natania , Elie , Hillel , Emmanuel , and Benjamine . Her husband died on June 20 , 1980 . She moved to Israel , where she spent the last 3 years of her life . She died on February 10 , 2003 , and was buried in Sanhedria , Jerusalem , next to her husband . Medals . As a Combattante Volontaire de la Résistance ( Voluntary Combatant of the Resistance ) , she received the French Liberation Medal . Later the French government awarded her the Palmes Académiques and the Médaille de la Santé Publique , for her contributions to public education and public health . Role in the Résistance . According to Combat , Feuerwerker actively participated in all the activities in the Résistance with her husband , Rabbi Feuerwerker , in particular recruiting liaison agents and distributing clandestine journals . Together with Germaine Ribière , who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations , she organized the evacuation of young people hunted by the Nazis . Escape from the Nazis . In the last months of World War II , she hid in a Catholic convent with her baby daughter , Atara , surviving on potatoes and water . She was later hidden by Germaine Goblot , the daughter of French philosopher Edmond Goblot . She saved the life of her sister , Rose Warfman , who was deported to Auschwitz . Her brother , a 29 - year young physician , Dr . Salomon Gluck , was deported from France on the convoy 73 , led to Kaunas in Lithuania and Reval ( Tallinn ) in Estonia , never to return . Role in the Exodus affair . In Neuilly , she was given a stash of gold coins for safekeeping which she hid under her husband ' s bed , without his knowledge . The money was used to finance the operation of the illegal immigration ship , " The Exodus " .