Prof. Gabriel Florence
Gabriel Florence was born June 21, 1886, im Alsace.
He was a professor of biological and medical chemistry at the University of Lyon and a member of the French Nobel Prize Committee.
During the German occupation, he tried to help his Jewish colleagues.
At the end of 1943, he joined an organisation of medics uniting to resist the Nazis.
In spring of 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and on June 7, 1944, he was sent to Neuengamme concentration camp.
Because he spoke German well, he was put to use as an interpreter. At the end of July 1944, the SS assigned him to the sick bay.
Once the 20 children arrived, his job was to keep their medical records and carry out laboratory tests.
He was murdered at the age of 58.
In 1953 Prof. Florence was posthumously awarded the Henri Labbé Prize for Biochemistry in recognition of his medical research.