[3][1] Daman also took Jewish women to be maids in Belgian households, giving them false identity papers and ration cards, and attempting to keep them informed where their children were hiding.
[1] Near the end of World War II she transported arms to Mouvement Royal Belge, and she also worked as an intelligence agent in the Brussels corps of the Belgian Partisans Army.
[1] Jeanne Daman was a twenty year-old school teacher in Belgium at the time of the outbreak of the second world war.
She accepted the offer straightaway in hopes of preventing the brutal treatment and discrimination against the Jewish community that had seemingly begun taking place.
[4][5][6] When she began teaching at the Nos Petits, she witnessed the mass arrest of the Jews, as well as the inhuman treatment they were receiving.
Often she would smuggle the children herself to the houses of the Belgian families willing to hide the Jews during the war, thus putting her own life at risk.