Monique Cerf's testimony The Cerf family had to leave the East of France in June 1940. They settled in a small village in south west France, in the Limousin region. When the girls had to go back to school, the father found a lodging, 13 avenue Ronsard, in Brive. There, the owner Marie Louise Bleyzat offered help to survive, a place to grow vegetables and poultry, and even money. When the elder girl was given an identity card with a Jew sign on it, the grandmother went to town with bags full of food and came back with a new card. When Jews were ordered to leave for a camp in Allassac, Marie Louise Bleyzat went back to town and when she came back, the family could stay and was not deported as happened to those who went. In 1944, when the German army was in town, she hid the family in a remote farm several miles away. Her grandson brought them cooked food to avoid being noticed, every other day. Meanwhile, fugitives hid in her barn before boarding a train nearby with the help of her grandson and her daughter carried messages for the resistance. October 20th, 2001
Une juste, Marie-Louise Bleyzat, née Louradour 1879-1975
Le docteur Albert Seifer, au nom de Yad Vashem France, remet le diplome de "Juste parmi les Nations", à titre posthume, aux descendantes de Marie Louise Bleyzat, le 27 octobre 2005, jour de son anniversaire, en présence du maire de Brive et de Francine Prime, sous-préfet.
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