- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Der Führer zum Erfolg: Maschinenschreiben
- Stones found in wells of Guerry
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,5 cm
- Scope & content
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor photograph of rocks on the ground. ( It could be rocks that were part of a well or attached to the victims that were throwed in the wells.) This is part of the scene surrounding 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.
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- Genre / form
- graphic material
- In the picture
- GardenJewish CommunityLandscapeMemorialRockTombstoneTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2012_31_37.jpg