Parker remembers, “There was a fear of the next scare — were the Nazis going to come to her house? Was there going to be a knock at the door? This woman, in addition to being our personal hero, was a key figure in the Belgian resistance and operated a radio in her basement. If she had been found with this radio, never mind my mother, she would have been toast.”
The family was lucky – they were reunited after the war within the safety of the United States, where Henriette later became a citizen of.
After Julia passed in 1955, Henriette made it her mission to have her name added to the Wall of the Righteous, a memorial dedicated to Holocaust survivors in Israel.”My mother was hell-bent on demonstrating her gratitude to this woman for hiding her,” Parker stated. “My mother was at this for years. She had to get affidavits and all sorts of documentation. They don’t just let you send in a name to get it on the wall. They are tough.”
Recently, the family was happy to find out that the name would be added to the wall, and decided to go to Israel themselves to watch the name ceremony.
