Ginette Kalish photographs

Identifier
irn510512
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.118
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ginette Kalish

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received these photographs from Ginette Kalish on July 13, 2002. An accretion of additional materials was donated to by Ginette Kalish in 2016.

Scope and Content

Contains photographs of Ginette Kalish [donor] and other children in Canet Plage, France, who were part of a group of seventy other orphaned children from Barcelona, Spain, who had escaped Franco and were assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. This group of children were later moved to a chateau in La Vercantiere that included a school and church until their liberation in 1945. Also includes a collection of prewar and wartime photographic prints and a photographic postcard documenting the Druker family, friends from Canet Plage and the Château de Masgelier children's home in Francet.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.