Isabelle Blume

Isabelle Blume ( Grégoire; 22 April 1892 – 12 March 1975) was a Belgian left wing politician and teacher. She was awarded the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples (later renamed the Lenin Peace Prize) in 1953.

Her grandson is professor and Shoah historian, Alain Goldschlager.

Life Isabelle Grégoire was born in Baudour in Belgium in 1892 and first qualified as a teacher in 1911 in Liège. She then studied theology in Geneva. Her father had been a pastor and in 1913 she married a pastor named David Blume. Her husband became the Director General of the Belgian Public Libraries. They had three children.

Blume was political being both opposed to fascism She was active on the question of women's suffrage and their rights in general. In 1936 she was elected to the Chamber of Representatives to represent Brussels. During the war she was active in London.

In 1951 she attended the World Peace Council. She was awarded the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples in 1953. She attended the Second World Congress of Champions of Peace and as result she was expelled from the Belgian Socialist Party in 1961.