Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux

French Resistance member, UN delegate

Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1903

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 25-Feb-1964

Profession: politician, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux (26 February 1904 – 25 February 1964) was a French women's and human rights activist.
During World War II, she was a member of the French Resistance and orchestrated her husband's release from Buchenwald concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo.
She was the sole woman in the French delegation to the first General Assembly of the United Nations.
Lefaucheux helped found the UN's Commission on the Status of Women and was its chair from 1948 to 1953.