Group portrait of French survivors standing in front of an ORT leather-making workshop.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75871

Date: Circa 1945 - 1947
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- France
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Monique Goss

Biography: Monique Goss (born Epstein) is the daughter of Julian Epstein (b. 1889, Minsk) and Margarete Pick Epstein (b. 1898, Vienna). In either 1913 or 1914 Julian, an opera singer and jeweler, moved to Vienna. There he met Margarete, They wed on March 28, 1920. One month after Nazi Germany annexed Austria and unleashed violent antisemitism, Monique and Julian fled to France. They first lived in Chelles in the eastern suburbs of Paris. After the start of World War II, Julian was forced to join the Foreign Service, and the family moved to Toulouse. Monique was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France. As life became more dangerous for Jews, Margarete Epstein hid her little daughter in Carbonne, and she herself was hidden separately. Julian was arrested and sent first to the Noe internment camp and then to Gurs. From there he was transported to Drancy and placed on Transport #51 to Majdanek where he was murdered upon arrival.
Keyword: DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
EXTERIORS
GROUP PORTRAITS
LEATHER-MAKING/LEATHER GOODS
ORT
SIGNS
SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
WOMEN
WORKSHOPS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Monique Goss

Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.457
: Record last modified: 2015-05-12 00:00:00
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