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Portrait of Reinhold Bielinski taken shortly before the family fled from Paris.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 38302
Portrait of Reinhold Bielinski taken shortly before the family fled from Paris.

Portrait of Reinhold Bielinski taken shortly before the family fled from Paris.

Date
Circa 1940
Locale
Paris, [Seine] France
Photo Designation
INVASION & OCCUPATION -- France -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/The Jewish Quarter
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francoise Bielinski Sitzer

About This Photograph

Biography
Françoise Bielinski (now Sitzer) is the daughter of Abraham and Estera (Markowicz) Bielinski, a Polish Jewish couple who moved to Berlin and then to Paris in the interwar period. Françoise was born in Paris in August 1937. She had one brother, Reinhold, who was born in Berlin in April 1932. After the German occupation of Paris in May 1940, the Sitzers fled to Pau, where they lived for two years before escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain. In 1942 the family secured passage on a ship sailing to Venezuela from the port of Cadiz.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Francoise Bielinski Sitzer
 
Record last modified: 2004-08-17 00:00:00
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