Dora Werzberg, nurse & social worker
Dora Werzberg Amelan, a French nurse and social worker, succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020.
In 1942, she rescued Jewish children through Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). She worked in the Camp de Rivesaltes and the Gurs internment camp, and took care of children who had survived the Nazi concentration camps. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19.
Werzberg was born in Strasbourg, the daughter of Karl Werzberg and Gisèla Blum, who were Jewish emigrants from Poland. The family moved to Antwerp when Werzberg was ten, and stayed until the death of her mother and the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany. She then joined a Zionist youth movement.
Werzberg had two sisters, Manda, who died of sepsis in 1942, and Simone Be...