[1][2] In 1965, the Cook sisters were honoured as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel.

Louise and her sister, Ida Cook, worked as typists in the UK civil service.

The two shared a love of opera and travelled to Austria and Germany to listen to performances.

[5] During the 1930s, the Romanian singer Viorica Ursuleac and her Austrian husband Clemens Krauss, a conductor of operas, were involved in helping Jewish people involved in the opera to escape the Nazi regime.

[6] The Cook sisters also housed refugees in England and lectured and advocated for Jews who needed help.