Born in
Vernoil on 19 October 1924, Bergoffen was the daughter of Eugène and Marie-Louise Blanchet. She worked on a farm in her youth and met the Moscovicis, a Jewish family who became close to her own family. During the
German occupation, she anticipated the impending deportation of her Jewish friends. On 12 September 1942, she picked up Louise Moscovici and traveled by bicycle to a nearby train station, and reached
Tours. She had originally planned to leave Moscovici with her aunt, but the aunt had already been deported. Bergoffen then contacted , one of the leaders of the
French Resistance, who provided Moscovici with papers to cross into the
Zone libre and from there reached a home run by the
Union générale des israélites de France. However, the home was known to Nazi authorities and therefore unsafe, so Bergoffen rescued all the children inside the home in January 1943, remaining in hiding in Tours and
Morannes until liberation in March 1945. In addition to her rescue efforts, Bergoffen was an agent of
Libération-Nord in the Tours sector, operating under the code name "Michèle". She held the rank of sergeant as evidenced by a letter addressed to her by
Charles de Gaulle on 1 September 1945. On 31 December 2006, she was named a knight of the
Legion of Honour. On 15 January 2025, she was promoted to Grand Officer. Bergoffen died on 6 January 2026, at the age of 101. ==References==