Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...

Identifier
irn504162
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0184
  • RG-20.019
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504162

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

Archives of the Commune of Anderlecht

Acquisition

From the Archives of the Commune of Anderlecht, Belgium. Lorraine Lasko donated a copy of the English translation of Sr. Marie-Aurelie's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sept. 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains a 21-page photocopy of a translation of a July 31, 1945, memoir by Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior, in Brussels, Belgium. In the memoir Sister Marie-Aurelie describes how her convent cared for Jewish girls and hid them from the Gestapo during the German occupation of Belgium in World War II.

People

  • Marie-Aurelie, Sister.

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Gestapo

Subjects

  • Hidden children (Holocaust)--Belgium--Brussels.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust--Belgium--Brussels.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Belgium--Brussels.

Genre

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