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Rosita and Maria , Spanish members of the staff and assistants to cook Senor Agustin Bertomeu y Caza, at the Recebedou camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 33417
Rosita and Maria , Spanish members of the staff and assistants to cook Senor Agustin Bertomeu y Caza, at the Recebedou camp. Rosita and Maria "were like big sisters" to Marie Genevieve Parmentier.

Rosita and Maria , Spanish members of the staff and assistants to cook Senor Agustin Bertomeu y Caza, at the Recebedou camp.

Rosita and Maria "were like big sisters" to Marie Genevieve Parmentier.

Date
1940 - 1941
Locale
Recebedou, [Tarn] France
Photo Designation
TRANSIT CAMPS/INTERNMENT CAMPS -- France -- Recebedou
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marie Genevieve Dagain

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Biography
Marie Genevieve Parmentier was a ten year-old French girl living in Paris at the time of the German occupation in 1940. Her widowed mother sent her to safety with an elderly relative in Ariège in the South of France. She sooned joined her aunt, Isabelle Peloux, a military nurse, at the camp of Recebedou. There she attended primary school at nearby Portet-sur-Garonne, before returning to her family in the summer of 1941.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Marie Genevieve Dagain
 
Record last modified: 2017-12-28 00:00:00
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