[3][4] Charpentier immediately left with the grandmother to find the two young children: Catherine Engelstein, three years old, and her two-year-old brother Raymond and promptly removed them from the house.

[3][2] Looking for a more lasting and safer solution, Charpentier decided to send them to others active in the Resistance in Paris, and organized their departure, with the help of Archbishop Clément Roques.

[1][3] The daughter-in-law, who had been captured by the Germans, survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany and returned to France at the end of the war, but she was reportedly "physically and morally broken.

[1][3] In 1989, Marie-Louise Charpentier experienced "the great joy of meeting Catherine,” the grown woman nearing 60 who had once been the three-year-old girl she had helped save.

[3][6] In 1990, Charpentier was given the title of "Righteous among the Nations" by the Yad Vashem organization in Israel, which created the award to "recognize non-Jews who, at personal risk and without a financial or evangelistic motive, chose to save Jews from the ongoing genocide during the Holocaust.

He went on to quote a text written by Lily, "our commitment was so obvious due to our rebelliousness against injustice and also because of our patriotism, that it never occurred to any of us that our actions were worth talking about, each success bringing its sufficient reward in itself.