She later married Louis Kahn, who became the first Jewish French Admiral, and crossed the Pyrenees alone with her two young children to reach safety during the Second World War.
[5][4] On 11 July 1922, Anne-Marcelle Schrameck married Louis Kahn, a marine engineer,[6] at the Synagogue de la Victoire in Paris.
[8] In July 1940 her father, Abraham Schrameck, voted in parliament in favour of giving full powers to Marshal Pétain at the start of the Vichy Republic but despite this support he was stripped of his senatorial position by Pétain on 27 November 1941 and was soon arrested and interned because of his Jewish origins.
On 15 August 1941 Louis Kahn was sacked from the Navy following the introduction of antisemitic laws preventing Jews holding state offices.
[4] Anne-Marcelle Kahn left for the relative safety of Marseille in the French-administered Zone Libre with her two young sons, Pierre and Jean, and her father on 18 June 1940.
Anne-Marcelle Kahn decided to leave Marseille when a 16-year-old friend of her son was arrested and deported by the Germans.
The Resistance took her in, gave her good accommodation, and fed her for eight days whilst new identity cards were created for her and the children.
When she found other smugglers, they were not willing to guide young children across the Pyrenees as they thought her youngest son Jean, at only 10 years old, would not be able to make it.
[4][5] She decided to make the journey with her two children, unaided, in October 1943, using a Scouting compass and Carte d'état-major general maps of France.