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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 17725

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

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.
Keyword: ANIMALS
ANIMALS (PIGS)
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
FOOD (PREPARATION)
GROUP PORTRAITS
GURS
INTERNMENT CAMPS
PRISONERS
TRANSIT CAMPS
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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