Group portrait with Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
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Scope & content: White border, outdoor scene. Twenty-four girls and one woman sitting and standing for a groupe portrait of a class of the school Notre-Dame de Mazamet in front of a building. Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Zilberbogen is standing in the last row on the left. Elzbieta was about 10 years old on photograph. Narrative: The Zilberbogen were a Jewish family originally from Warsaw (Poland). Mother Chana and daughters Elzbieta (born 1933) and Celinka (born 1937) moved to Belgium in 1939. The father, Szygmundt, an engineer, stayed in Poland. During the Second World War, the mother and daughters were first sent to a transit camp in the South of France before being released. Chana was then hospitalized and spent the war hidden in a Sanatorium in Mazamet. Elzbieta and Celinka were hidden in various locations in the South of France, including a farm and different children's homes run by OSE. Szygmundt was killed in Poland. Chana and her daughters went back to live in Belgium after Liberation until immigrating to Canada in 1951.
In the picture: Christmas Class Girl Group Portrait Outdoor Event Palm Tree School Steps Student Tree Window WomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
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