Category:Chateau de La Guette (subject)

Chateau de La Guette (see Holocaust Children Studies)

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Overview

Chateau de La Guette was a mansion owned by Edouard and Germaine de Rothschild, located near Paris, France, which served as a home for around 134 Jewish refugee children coming from Germany and Austria in March 1939. Fifty-seven of the children were female and seventy-seven were male. About sixty-six lived in Austria, primarily in or around Vienna, prior to their departure for France, and about sixty-eight of the children lived in Germany prior to leaving for France.

Group portrait of Jewish refugee children at the Château de la Guette children's home. Back row left to right: Heinrich Rosenthal, Max Lustig, Karl Schwarz, Hans Blum, Herbert Ruhm, Arthur Pacht, Renate Tauber, Ursula Matzdorff, Lotte Szampanier, Henri Pohoryles, Erika Reiss, Hannah Ruth Klopstock, Lore Heinemann, Suzie Guttmann, Gisela Edel, Ellen Rosen, Minnie Engel and Inge Rosenthal. Seated and kneeling: Raoul Kunstadt, Ludwig Scheucher, Eduard Weiss, Kurt Moses, Heinz Alexander, Werner Neuberger, Hans Schoenfrank, Bertie Heiberg, Marcel Kamil, Trautchen Feith, Ilse Bodenheim. Eva Guttmann and True Weihsman.

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