Postcard sent to the Rubinsztejn family by Armand Rubinsztejn during his internment at Gurs.
Overview
- Caption
- Postcard sent to the Rubinsztejn family by Armand Rubinsztejn during his internment at Gurs.
- Date
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1943
- Locale
- Gurs, [Pyrenees-Atlantiques] France
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dora Rubinsztejn Weiner
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Dora Rubinsztejn Weiner
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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TRANSIT CAMPS/INTERNMENT CAMPS -- France -- Gurs -- Documents
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Dora Weiner (born Dworja Raca Rubinsztejn) is the daughter of Hersh and Chaya (Grynberg) Rubinsztejn. She was born February 17, 1927 in Plock, Poland, where her father was a Jewish ritual slaughterer. Dworja had two older brothers, Szamuel and Armand. The family lived in Plock until the spring of 1929, when Chaya took Dworja and Armand to Paris to live with her brother's family. To appease his father, Hersh stayed behind in Plock with Szamuel. After the German occupation of northern France in 1940, Chaya and the children moved south to Grenade sur Adour. Subsequently, eighteen-year-old Armand was sent to the Septfondes labor camp. In 1943 he was transferred to Gurs and then deported to the east by way of Drancy. In September 1942 Dworja was sent to live in Lacaune les Bains, where she was required to check in weekly with the police. Then, in the spring of 1944 Dworja went into hiding in L'Isle Jourdain with false papers provided by the Maquis resistance. She remained there until the liberation. Dworja then returned to Paris, where she lived until her immigration to the United States in May 1949. She sailed from Cherbourg to New York on the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth. Dworja's mother also survived the war hiding in France, but her father and two brothers perished in Poland.
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