Picture postcard, "Villa Saint-Cristophe"

Identifier
irn559576
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.590.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn559576

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Barbara Martinez.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Barbara Martinez in 2017.

Scope and Content

Consists of a photographic postcard depicting Villa Saint-Christophe in Canet-Plage (now Canet-en-Roussillon), France. The villa was later the site of a children's home where Jewish children from nearby Rivesaltes were sheltered by Lois Gunden Clemens (1915-2005).

Subjects

  • Pyrénées-Orientales (France)

Genre

  • Postcards.
  • Document
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