While in Paris as a buyer for Fortnum & Mason , she met Paul-Emile Seidmann , a doctor . In 1939 , they married . Shortly afterwards , during World War II , they fled Nazi-occupied Paris by bicycle . She was subsequently awarded the Medal of Freedom for assisting the American Army of Liberation . Seidmann was made a for his work with concentration camp survivors
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Ginette Spanier