Overview
- Description
- The photographs depict Anne Marie Yellin and her parents before World War II as well as Anne Marie and other children who were in hiding during the Holocaust in a convent, St. Antoine de Padoue, in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium.
- Date
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1939-1943
- Collection Creator
- Anne M. Yellin
- Biography
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Anne Marie Feller (later Yellin) was the daughter of Hermann Feller and Frieda Happ Feller. She was born in Chemnitz, Germany in December 6, 1938. With her family, Anne Marie fled Germany to Belgium. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium and began instituting antisemitic decrees. When Germany began deportations, Anne Marie went into hiding with the help of Andree Guelen (Herscovici) from the Committee for the Defense of the Jews (CDJ), an organization devoted to the rescue of Jewish children. She was placed in hiding in the convent St. Antoine de Padue, outside of Brussels. The convent's Mother Superior hid a total of ten Jewish adults, twenty-eight Jewish children, British parachutists, resistance fighters, and various weapons.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Anne Marie Yellin.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-08-15 16:43:05
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