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Group portrait of children in the Schirmeck orphanage in France.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 09301
Group portrait of children in the Schirmeck orphanage in France. Most of the children later immigrated to Israel. Eve Nisencwajg (eighth from the left) moved to Canada to live with her aunt.

Group portrait of children in the Schirmeck orphanage in France.

Most of the children later immigrated to Israel. Eve Nisencwajg (eighth from the left) moved to Canada to live with her aunt.

Date
1947
Locale
Schirmeck, [Bas-Rhin] France
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- France -- Schirmeck
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eve Nisencwajg Bergstein

About This Photograph

Biography
Eve Bergstein (born Eve Nisencwajg) was born in 1936 in Staszow, Poland. In 1941, Eve was placed in hiding with a Catholic couple, Wiktoria and Stanislaw Szumielewicz. For the duration of the war, Eve posed as their orphaned niece, and in 1943 she took first communion at the local church. She remained with the Szumielewicz family until 1946 at which time an uncle found her and brought her to a Jewis orphanage in Krakow. From there, Eve was taken to the Schirmeck orphanage in France, where she remained until emigrating to Canada in 1947 to live with an aunt who had immigrated before the war. After the war Yad Vashem honored the Szumielewicz family as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Eve Nisencwajg Bergstein
Source Record ID: HCC-Montreal
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-16 00:00:00
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