Valiant Vignette: Kate Lipner

Kate Lipner was seventeen years old.  Her father was in a German labor camp and her mother had recently died.  She lived alone in Vichy France, the southern half of France that had been taken over by the Nazis.  She started working for the French Resistance, and through her connections there, she took three Jewish children into her care.  During the war she risked her life many times to keep the Gestapo from finding the children and sending them to concentration camps.  She succeeded, and all of them survived the war due to her courage.