A year later, she was in southern France, in Grenoble, risking her life driving Jewish children out of the country and into neutral Switzerland, many of whom were orphans.
“We couldn’t save the adults always. But we tried to do what we could for the children,” she said in testimony given in 2014.
Following the end of the war, she continued to work with refugee children, becoming a case workers for OPEJ, a Jewish community group that took care of war orphans.
Ms Wattenberg, who was described by the Memorial for the Shoah as “a courageous woman and an indefatigable fighter”, died in Paris on April 3 from the coronavirus. She was 95.
