Overview
- Collection Summary
- Ellis Cohen Paraira is a Dutch Jew who survived in hiding from 1942 until the end of the war. She and her boyfriend wrote to each other in a diary that they passed back and forth through a resistance network. Her boyfriend did not survive, and the diary remains in her possession. The diary was recently published, and an Israeli film documenting her moving story aired in 2011. Ellis’s father David captured family life in Amsterdam before the war on film, and Ellis donated the 8mm black and white and Kodachrome home movies to the Museum.
Administrative Notes
- Film Source
- Elisheva Cohen-Paraira
Browse 8 Items In This Collection
Jewish family visits relatives in London before the war
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1369 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Zoo and snow in Holland
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1370 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Queen's Day parade; visiting a deer park in the Hague
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1371 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Cohen-Paraira family at leisure
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1372 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Cohen-Paraira family in the city before the war
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1373 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Toddler at play before the war
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1374 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Teenagers smile for the camera
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1375 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
Family visits blossoming tulips
Film | Accession Number: 2012.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1376 | Film ID: 2942, 2943
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