Four girls wearing white dresses pose together with two nuns in the Convent of St. Antoine de Padua on the occasion of the their first communion.
Overview
- Caption
- Four girls wearing white dresses pose together with two nuns in the Convent of St. Antoine de Padua on the occasion of the their first communion.
Pictured front row, left is AnneMarie Feller. - Date
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1943
- Locale
- Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, [Brabant] Belgium
- Variant Locale
- Leeuw-Saint-Pierre
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anne Marie Yellin
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Anne Marie YellinSource Record ID: Collections: 2002.413.1
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- AnneMarie Feller (later Yellin) is the daughter of Hermann Feller and Frieda Happ Feller. She was born in Chemnitz, Germany in December 6, 1938. With her family, AnneMarie fled Germany and came to Belgium. In May 1940 Germany invaded Belgium and began instituting antisemitic decrees. When Germany began deporting Belgium's Jews, AnneMarie went into hiding with the help of Andree Guelen (Herscovici) from the Committee for the Defense of the Jews (CDJ), an organization devoted to the rescue of Jewish children. She was placed in hiding in the convent St. Antoine de Padue, outside of Brussels. The convent's Mother Superior hid a total of ten Jewish adults, twenty-eight Jewish children, British parachutists, resistance fighters, and various weapons.
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- 2006-06-08 00:00:00
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