Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection

Identifier
irn43791
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.219.1
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Micheline Weinstein

Micheline Weinstein donated this material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album entitled "Le Petit Monde" depicting life in the Petit Monde OSE children's home in post-war France, of which Jacqueline Levy-Geneste was the director.

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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.