A POSTHUMOUS award has been given to Sister Agnes Walsh, who sheltered a Jewish family from December 1943 in a convent in Cadouin, in the Dordogne.
At the launch of a new award that recognised Britons who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust, UK prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the 27 individuals honoured were ‘shining beacons of hope in the midst of terrible evil’.
The story of Sister Agnes has been traced by the Catholic Herald, who tells of how a Jewish mother and her three children were hidden in the convent in Cadouin.
Sister Agnes, originally from Hull, was recognised as Righteous among Nations by the Holocaust remembrance authority, Yad Vashem, in 1990 at the age of 94. She died in 1993 in Mill Hill, London.