panarchive
  1. Montreal Holocaust Museum
  2. Der Führer zum Erfolg: Maschinenschreiben
  3. Portrait of Charles Halkain
Portrait of Charles Halkain
Montreal Holocaust Museum · small copy hosted here (www.cjhn.ca blocks its images elsewhere)
Full-size image ↗View at source ↗

Portrait of Charles Halkain

1 image

Held by
Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Level
item
Scope & content
White border, full length rectangular indoor portrait of Charles Halkain wearing dark clothes and a hat, there is a light coloured patch on his right breast pocket. Charles Halkain was a victim of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
In the picture
CapCoatEmblemHatJacketManMilitary UniformPortraitStudio PortraitTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Location

No place found in this description yet.

Suggest location

Where

More details

Extent
Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 13,7 cm x W: 8,8 cm
Genre / form
graphic material
Format
Photograph
Text in the image
HALKAINnée le 10 janv. 1921 à Paris / Seinecjhn.canée le 10 janv. 1931 à Paris / SeineRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
French
Harvested
2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

Digital objects at the source

Original metadata

As harvested (andornot)