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Group portrait of Leah Wajsfelner with other children while she was hiding in France during WWII.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 55532
Group portrait of Leah Wajsfelner with other children while she was hiding in France during WWII. [This may possibly be a postwar children's home.]

Group portrait of Leah Wajsfelner with other children while she was hiding in France during WWII.

[This may possibly be a postwar children's home.]

Date
Circa 1939 - 1945
Locale
France
Photo Designation
RESCUERS & RESCUED -- France
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leah Starkman

About This Photograph

Biography
Leah Starkman (born Leah Wajsfelner) is the daughter of Zelick (b 1903) and Leah (nee Szlamkiewicz, b. 1902) Wajsfelner. Leah was born in Chareloi, Belgium on July 31, 1929. Her parents were both born in Poland and immigrated to Belgium. After the German invasion of Belgium, Leah and her parents fled to France where they were incarcerated in the Venissieux internment camp. Leah later went into hiding in Lyon and in the farming village of Trescleoux in the French Alps. Her parents were deported to Auschwitz .

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Leah Starkman
Source Record ID: Collections: RG-50.166*0032
 
Record last modified: 2012-12-13 00:00:00
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