Overview
- Date
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1940 - 1941
- Locale
- Recebedou, [Tarn] France
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marie Genevieve Dagain
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Marie Genevieve Dagain
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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TRANSIT CAMPS/INTERNMENT CAMPS -- France -- Recebedou
Administrative Notes
- 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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- 2017-12-28 00:00:00
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