Isabelle Blume was a Belgian left wing politician and teacher.
13 Facts About Isabelle Blume
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Isabelle Blume was awarded the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples in 1953.
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Isabelle Blume's grandson is professor and Shoah historian, Alain Goldschlager.
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Isabelle Blume's father had been a pastor and in 1913 she married a pastor named David Blume.
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Isabelle Blume's husband became the Director General of the Belgian Public Libraries.
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Isabelle Blume was political being both opposed to fascism and a feminist and she joined the Belgian Labour Party in 1918.
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Isabelle Blume was active on the question of women's suffrage and their rights in general.
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Isabelle Blume was awarded the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples in 1953.
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Isabelle Blume attended the Second World Congress of Champions of Peace and as result she was expelled from the Belgian Socialist Party in 1961.
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Isabelle Blume remained as an independent in parliament after leaving the socialists.
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Isabelle Blume was President from 1966 to 1969 and this role introduced her to leading world figures including Indira Gandhi, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh.
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Isabelle Blume has three children including Jean Blume who is a journalist and politician.
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Goldschlager was awarded the Knight of the Order of Academic Palms in 2014 for his support of the French language and he cites his grandfather David Isabelle Blume who took a leading role in establishing libraries in Belgium, with inspiring his love of French.