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Portrait of Greek midwife, resister and rescuer, Erini Kyoreou Varanga Kanelopoulou.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 67830
Portrait of Greek midwife, resister and rescuer, Erini Kyoreou Varanga Kanelopoulou.

Portrait of Greek midwife, resister and rescuer, Erini Kyoreou Varanga Kanelopoulou.

Locale
Greece
Photo Designation
RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Greece
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Linda A. H. Smythe

About This Photograph

Biography
Erini Kypreou Varanga Kenelopoulou was born on the Milos Island and educated in Vienna. Before the war she moved to Athens where she worked as a midwife. She is responsible for saving the family of her friends Rebecca and Simos Kamhi family amd spiriting them out to Egypt. She also saved Rebecca Kamhi's sister Tilda and her family.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Linda A. H. Smythe
 
Record last modified: 2015-07-08 00:00:00
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