Boyer Suzanne

Rodi-Boyer, Suzanne File 126 Suzanne Boyer, a senior official in the Municipality of Limoges (Haute-Vienne), was in charge of issuing identification papers, work permits, and ration cards. Active in the Resistance from the start, she provided comrades in the struggle, including many Jews, with forged documents. M. and Mme Wilgowicz, a Jewish couple with a six-year-old daughter, lived in her apartment building. In 1943, when a clerk at the prefecture told Boyer of an impending roundup of Jews, she immediately warned all Jews of her acquaintance and hid the Wilgowiczes and other Jews in her apartment. Boyer met all their needs until the immediate danger had passed. She then provided them with forged papers with which they could settle in other places. Aware that her actions endangered her, she sent her son to relatives in a nearby village. In 1944, the French militia arrested Boyer on an informer’s tip but released her after she bravely withstood interrogation and torture. On April 25, 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Suzanne Rodi-Boyer as Righteous Among the Nations.