Page from the memoirs of Camp de Gurs illustrated by Eva Liebhold.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 54571

Date: October 1940 - March 1943
Locale: Gurs, [Pyrenees-Atlantiques] France
Photo Designation: ART OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Artists L
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard Weilheimer

Biography: Eva Johanna Liebhold was the daughter of Michael and Fanny Liebhold. She was born on September 12, 1921 in Mannheim, Germany. She had one brother Werner (later Bernard) born 1927. In October, 1940 the family was deported to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France. From there Michael was sent to other French internment camps before dying in Nexon. In 1942 Eva and Fanny were both shipped to Drancy and then deported to Auschwitz where they were killed. Only Werner survived having spent time hidden in OSE homes, a Catholic college and then fighting with the Macquis under a false name.
Keyword: ART
ART MOTIF (CAMPS/GHETTOS/PRISONS)
ART OF THE HOLOCAUST
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
GURS
INTERNMENT CAMPS
LIEBHOLD, EVA
TRANSIT CAMPS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Richard Weilheimer

Second Provenance: Guillaume Liebhold
: Record last modified: 2017-10-26 00:00:00
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