Fenayrol Marie ; Child: Jean ; Child: Marie

Fenayrol, Marie Fenayrol, Jean Fenayrol, Marie File 1193 Marie Fenayrol was a widowed pharmacist who lived with her son, Jean, and daughter, Marie, in Toulouse. One day in late 1942, Charlotte Hirsch, an eighteen-year old German Jew, arrived at the Fenayrol’s house. She had been hiding under an assumed name with other Jewish girls in the convent of Pompignon, near Toulouse. After a former Jew in the convent informed on the refugees, the nuns had found shelter for them with French families. Marie Fenayrol and her family welcomed Hirsch warmly and treated her as a member of the family. Aware of Hirsch’s true identity, the Fenayrols made sure she did not transgress the Jewish commandments, and did not give her non-kosher meat. Not only did the Fenayrols refuse payment for helping Hirsch, they also provided her with pocket money. Although Hirsch helped with the housework, her benefactors left the hard work to the domestics. When Charlotte Hirsch’s brother visited her, the Fenayrols were afraid that Gestapo agents in town might catch him, so they let him sleep in their home. The Fenayrols also provided Jews with otherwise unobtainable vital medications from their pharmacy. Charlotte Hirsch stayed with the Fenayrols until May 1945. Before she left, Marie Fenayrol assured her that the Fenayrol door would always be open to her. On October 9, 1977, Yad Vashem recognized Marie Fenayrol and her children Jean and Marie as Righteous Among the Nations.