Geuten Jean & Alice ; Son: Jean

Geuten, Jean Geuten, Alice Geuten, Jean Jacob and Cypora Rak, originally from Poland, lived in Liège/Luik, with their children Zalman (b. 1918) and Miriam (b. 1926). In 1942, when the deportations began, Jean Geuten, a friend of Zalman’s at the Athénée Royale de Liège school, who often visited the Rak home, asked his parents to be of help. Jean’s family was poor and lived in a small apartment with two rooms. Nevertheless they decided to shelter Zalman and hide him in their home. Zalman slept in the kitchen and remained with them until the end of the occupation; Alice Geuten treated him as if he were her own son. On occasions, the young Jean visited Zalman’s sister Miriam who was hidden by Abbé Jean Houyet*, and acted as the go-between on behalf of the Rak family. Zalman’s parents were hidden in another location - a rented room near the railway station. When the bombardments of Liège started they were hidden by Abbé Houyet in Wandre, a suburb in the northeast of Liège, and, thus, the entire Rak family survived through hiding and was reunited after the war. On February 12, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Jean and Alice Geuten, and their son Jean Geuten, as Righteous Among the Nations.