avoided publicity, and rarely talked about the past in the letters to the children. In 1968, Yad Vashem honoured Paré as Righteous Among the Nations at the nomination of the Levin family. She testified in 1970 at the Weinreb investigation of the NIOD that she had saved 52 children. Do Versteegh died in 1970. On 25 February 1972, a friend discovered Ru Paré's body in the bathroom. Aftermath In 1988, The Hague named a street Ru-Paréstraat. In Amsterdam, the Ru Paré Community, a school and neighbourhood centre has been named after her. In 2020, The Hague named a school after Ru Paré. The renaming was a request of the politician Hanneke Gelderblom who - as a child - was taken from The Hague to Eerde by Ru Paré. References 1896 births 1972 deaths Dutch resistance members Dutch women painters People from Druten Dutch Righteous Among the Nations 20th-century Dutch women