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Ravenhall-Stickley, Elsie June

Date of birth:
June 23rd, 1901 (Kenilworth/Warwickshire, United Kingdom)
Date of death:
January 19th, 1984
Nationality:
British

Biography

Elsie June moved to the Hague with her husband, whom she married in 1925. Her husband was interned in a prison camp in Germany, and their house and business were expropriated. Elsie June subsequently moved to Hilversum where she sheltered a young Jewish man named Levi Velleman in her home.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
June 17th, 2007

Posthumously awarded. Three of her children accepted the medal and certificate on her behalf at a ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in London.
Yad Vashem-decoration
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
2010
For her efforts at saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

Posthumously awarded
British Hero of the Holocaust

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