Background
Madeleine Barot was the daughter of Alexandre Auguste Barot, a literature teacher from Clermont-Ferrand, and Madeleine Kuss.
Madeleine Barot was the daughter of Alexandre Auguste Barot, a literature teacher from Clermont-Ferrand, and Madeleine Kuss.
In 1934, she became an intern at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She was then hired as a librarian at the École française de Rome, where she worked from June, 1935 to June, 1940. She thus became involved in the prewar resistance movement, inspired by Swiss pastor Karl Barth.
She was replaced by Georgette Siegris in 1956.
Madeleine Barot was responsible for the presence of Cimade in camps. She was a committed Christian, highly engaged in international history and foreign policy.
There, she began important work in carving out a space for women within the church. She was involved in several important organizations: A Commission for Church support in development.
Christian Action Foreign the Abolition of Torture A Conference of Religions for Peace She also continued her work with Cimade.
In 1988, she was given the status of Righteous Among the Nations on the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, which honours people throughout Europe who directly or indirectly helped to protect and support Jews during the Third Reich.