Ámparo Otero Pappo

Ámparo de Los Remedios Otero de Pappo (1896–1987) was a Cuban-born milliner who was honored as being among the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for saving French Jews during the Holocaust.

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Ámparo de Los Remedios Otero emigrated with her family from Cuba to France in the late 1920s, settling in Paris to pursue a hatmaking career. A Catholic, she married Jacob Pappo, a Bulgarian Jew, in 1931. They had a son, Charles-Henri, in 1932, and Jacob Pappo died the following year. After World War II began, she relocated with her son to Siran, Cantal. During the war years, Pappo sheltered her husband's family – including her mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews and niece – and a teenage Jewish refugee named Liliane Frangi from arrest and potential deportation to the Nazi death camps.[1][2]

On 14 July 2011, Yad Vashem recognized Ámparo Otero de Pappo as Righteous Among the Nations, making her the first – and, to date, only – Cuban national to be honored.

References
  1. "Pappo Family". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  2. "Juste parmi les Nations: Amparo Pappo". Anonymes, Justes et persécutés durant la période nazie. Retrieved 13 April 2018.


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