slaughterer in Lille's Jewish community. Telling their staff that the sixteen-year-old Hélène and eighteen-year-old Perla were nursing students, the women were subsequently forced to find a new hiding place for the girls when the mother of one of their nursing students complained. Post-war life After war's end, Durrleman and Mattert successfully reunited the Baran brothers and secured adoptions for them with a Jewish family, the Marszaks. Both women remained close to the boys throughout their lives, and were reportedly thought of as surrogate grandmothers. During the 1950s Matter and Durrleman gradually reduced their work at the hospital and school of nursing, jointly purchased property in Paris, and officially retired in 1956. That same year, they moved to 55 Avenue du Maine in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris. Death and burial As Matter's health gradually declined during the mid-1970s, Durrleman arranged to have her admitted to the hospital they had co-founded. Matter died at the Ambroise-Paré Hospital in Lille on 29 May 1975. She was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery. Durrleman continued to reside at their Paris home until 1990 when she relocated to Châtelet, a Protestant retirement home in Meudon. Following her death there on 15 June 1993, Durrleman was buried with Matter at the Montparnasse Cemetery. Awards Éva Durrleman, Thérèse Matter, and France Neubert were declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 29 November 1990. In September 2017, a plaque honoring the trio was placed in Lille by Yad Vashem. See also Lille during World War II References External links France (before and during World War II). Washington, D.C.: Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Holocaust: Primary Definition and Discussion . Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem. French women in World War II Female resistance members of World War II French Resistance members 1993 deaths 1891 births 20th-century French women