Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection
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.
People
- Weinstein, Micheline, 1941-
- Levy-Geneste, Jacqueline.
Corporate Bodies
- Concentration camp (unspecified) (ushmm)
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
- World Union OSE
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.
- France
- Limoges (France)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document