Saint Chely André & Rosalie ; Son: Justin

Saint-Chely, André-Casimir Saint-Chely, Rosalie Saint-Chely, Justin André and Rosalie Saint-Chely ran a café in Paris’s 11th arrondissement. In 1926, Herschl Nucher opened a kosher butcher shop across the street. Every morning he had coffee at the café. On the morning of July 21, 1941, after coffee, he returned to the butcher shop where a German and two French policemen arrested him in front of the neighbors. He was interned and later deported to a death camp in Poland. With the increasing number of raids, Mrs. Nucher and her youngest daughter Fanny, 18, sought refuge at the home of her eldest daughter, Brandla, 24, who lived nearby with her husband Max Szwarc. One day, sensing the risk of further arrests of adult males in the neighborhood, Max contacted the Saint-Chely couple, who hid him for eight days until he could find an alternate solution. As Max was absent when the police came to arrest him, they ordered Mrs. Nucher and her daughter to pack their bags and to be ready to leave in a few hours. They took advantage of the reprieve to flee to the home of some relatives. As this sanctuary proved to be precarious, Fanny and her mother sought help from the Saint-Chelys, who had sympathized with them after Mr. Nucher’s arrest. The couple asked a concierge for help, who found an apartment for the whole family that was empty, after its Jewish tenants had been arrested. They brought provisions to the fugitives every day for two months. When this hiding place became too dangerous, their 22-year-old son Justin offered them his studio, where the Saint-Chely couple continued to bring them provisions. They later moved them to their property in Saint-Maur-des Fossés, near Paris, where the fugitives remained hidden until July 1943. In the meantime, Brandla gave birth to a baby girl, and she and her husband Max benefited greatly from the sanctuary offered in Saint-Maur-les Fossés. The Saint-Chelys subsequently helped the family to move to Lyons. They obtained falseidentity cards for Fanny and her mother. As the mother spoke little French, they advised her to pass herself off as a deaf-mute, put a cross around her neck and accompanied them to the train station. Justin then offered his studio to a former student in his class who was Jewish, Hélène Rasner, and the Saint-Chely couple brought her provisions as well.