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A group of kitchen workers in the Gurs concentration camp pose with a slaughtered pig.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 17725
A group of kitchen workers in the Gurs concentration camp pose with a slaughtered pig. Siegfried Lindheimer is pictured in the center behind the pig.

A group of kitchen workers in the Gurs concentration camp pose with a slaughtered pig.

Siegfried Lindheimer is pictured in the center behind the pig.

Date
1940 - 1944
Locale
Gurs, [Pyrenees-Atlantiques] France
Photo Designation
TRANSIT CAMPS/INTERNMENT CAMPS -- France -- Gurs -- Prisoners/Daily Life -- General
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Laurette Alexis-Monet

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Biography
Laurette Alexis-Monet was born in 1923. In 1942 she decided to take a month break from her studies of classics at the University of Aix-en-Provence to volunteer for the Protestant relief group CIMADE (Comite Inter-Movement des Evacues). CIMADE sent her to the Recebedou internment camp in Tarn to help with relief work. She later worked in Nexon in the Haute-Vienne region. Laurette ended up remaining in the camps until outside aid workers were expelled in July 1943.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Laurette Alexis-Monet
 
Record last modified: 2014-05-14 00:00:00
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