The Rabbi-Fighter of the Resistance

Rabbi David Feuerwerker was the rabbi of Brive-la-Gaillarde in occupied France. From his rabbinical post, he organized an underground network that saved hundreds of Jewish children. He personally smuggled children to safety in monasteries, farms, and convents throughout the Limousin region. When the Gestapo came for his synagogue, he escaped through a back door with Torah scrolls hidden under his coat. His wife, Antoinette Feuerwerker, was a legal scholar who became the first woman deputy mayor of a major French city after the war, helping to rebuild the French legal system. The couple saved an estimated 300+ Jewish children during the war.