Ginette Kalish photographs
Extent and Medium
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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
- Château du Masgelier (Orphanage)
Subjects
- Canet-en-Roussillon (France).
- Child refugees.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document