Overview

• A support committee co-led by Haïm Korsia and Christian Krieger has launched a petition advocating for Adélaïde Hautval’s admission to the Panthéon.
• The Élysée has confirmed it will evaluate Hautval’s nomination alongside others submitted for consideration.
• Hautval, a psychiatrist, was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 for defending Jewish prisoners and refused to participate in Nazi medical experiments.
• After the war, she was honored with the Légion d’honneur in 1946 and recognized as Juste parmi les Nations in 1965 for her moral courage and humanitarian efforts.
• Advocates argue that her inclusion would honor overlooked female resistants and reaffirm core French values of justice and fraternity.