Doll

Held by

Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Level

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Extent

Doll : Pink, Brown, Blue, Red ; Ht: 14 in. x W: 6,5 in.

Scope & content

Plastic baby doll with articulated legs and arms. Pink skin colour. Details for hair are engraved on the head and coloured brown. Eyes are coloured blue. Legs are a redder shade of pink while torso and arms' tone is closer to skin colour. Narrative: Donor Marguerite received this doll from her father just before his deportation. She was five years old. Marguerite and her sister left Paris and were taken care in hiding by Catholic farmers in the region of Grenoble, France. they stayed there between 1942 and 1944. Marguerite always kept the doll with her. After the liberation of Paris, the farmer who took care of the girls was accused of being a collaborator and the girls' mother came to get them. On a French train, a French soldier picked up the doll and burned its arm witha cigarette and poked its eye out saying "now it's wounded like the rest of us”. After Marguerite came to Montreal, married and became pregnant, her mother had the doll repaired and sent to her.

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2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

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