Hannebert Roger & Simone

Hannebert, Roger Hannebert, Simone File 762 Roger and Simone Hannebert owned a summer home in Nesles la Vallée (Val de Marne), on the outskirts of Paris. In July 1942, while vacationing there with their four young children, they sheltered the Goldman family, a couple with a five-year-old daughter, Madeleine, Polish Jews who had settled in Paris. Mr. Goldman worked in a shoe factory. The day before the mass arrest of Vel d’Hiv (July 15, 1942), he heard someone tell his boss to warn his foreign workers to run away, because something was going to happen that night. He immediately went home, picked up his wife, and rushed with her to Frouville (Val d’Oise), where Madeleine was staying with a foster family. The three Jewish refugees then took a train to Nesles la Vallée, where Polish acquaintances concealed them in their home for several days. The mayor of the village sent them to the Hanneberts, who knew they were Jewish and treated them with sympathy and understanding. Goldman did gardening work at the Hanneberts’ summer home and at the homes of other villagers. After the war, Madeleine recalled playing and going to school with the Hanneberts’ children. Since Wehrmacht forces were encamped in the area, the Hanneberts had to billet a German officer in their home for several months. No one knew that the Goldmans were Jewish, and thanks to the Hanneberts, who made all the necessary arrangements, Mme Goldman was able to give birth to a daughter in 1943, in L’Isle Adam Hospital. On May 27, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Roger and Simone Hannebert as Righteous Among the Nations.