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A group of girls of varying ages poses together outside the Le Coudray children's home.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 59890
A group of girls of varying ages poses together outside the Le Coudray children's home. Among those pictured is Raymonde Abrams.

A group of girls of varying ages poses together outside the Le Coudray children's home.

Among those pictured is Raymonde Abrams.

Date
August 1944
Locale
Le Coudray, France
Photo Designation
INVASION & OCCUPATION -- France -- OSE/Children's Homes -- Coudray
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Raymonde Abrams

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Biography
Raymonde Abrams (born Raymonde Geller) is the daughter of Abraham (Adolphe) Geller and Elka (Helene) Finkelstein Geller. She was born on August 12, 1930 in Paris, France where her father was a tailor and her mother was a seamstress. In November 1943 both of her parents were killed in Auschwitz. Raymonde hid in several locations through the assistance of OSE including Beaulieu-Sur-Mer, Chateau de Chabannes, Chateau de Masgelier. Les Basses Fontaines and Le Coudray. She was liberated at the age of 15 and returned to Paris where she lived in the Sevres children's home. In 1948 Raymonde immigrated to the United States en board the SS Sobieski, and she married Alvin Abrams in 1954.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Raymonde Abrams
 
Record last modified: 2007-01-09 00:00:00
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