Category:Chateau de Quincy (subject)

Chateau de Quincy (France)

Overview

The château at Quincy-sous-Sénart, located 30 km. southeast of Paris, belonged to the Count Hubert de Monbrison before World War II. He and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became his wife), used the château to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children, coming from the Auerbach Orphanage in Berlin, Germany. The count agreed and the Kindertransport of boys arrived on July 4, 1939. Quincy served as a Jewish children's home until September 1940 when, following the German occupation of France, the château was requisitioned by the German army. The boys were then relocated to other OSE homes.

Raymonde Sauviac, a teacher at the Quincy children's home, poses with a group of Jewish refugee boys who arrived on a Kindertransport from Germany. Pictured in the front row from left to right are: Henry Hoppenstandt, Ralph Moratz, Werner Gossels, Peter Gossels and Wulf Grajonca (Wolodya Grajonza). Second row: Karll Heinz Wolfberg, Norbert Bikales, Sammy Stuck, Erwin Cosman and Herbert Oberniker. Third row: Werner Goldschmidt, Gerhard Glass, Henri Kreft, Arno Marcuse, Egon Zwirn and Berthold Friedlander. Top: Mlle. Raymonde Sauviac (later Fanouillere). Sauviac was later recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her role in rescue efforts in France.

Group portrait of German-Jewish refugee children who were sent to France on a Kindertransport in the spring of 1939 on the steps of the Quincy-sous-Senart children's home near Paris. Among those pictured are Arno Marcuse (front row, left), Norbert Bikales (second row, left), Wolfgang Blumenreich (second row, third from left), Gerhard Alexander (second row, second from right), Gerhard Glass (second row, far right), Eryk Goldfarb (back row, second from left), Walter Herzig (back row, center), Heinz Stephan Lewy (top row, second from the right) and Gerhard Rosenzweig (top row, far right).

A group of refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars pose with a group of Jewish refugee boys who came to France on a Kindertransport from Germany at a children's home in Quincy-sous-Senart. Pictured from left to right are Consuelo Martin, Nati Macaya, Mercedes Martin, Pilar Fernandez, Niaves Martin, Egon Heysmann, Gerhard Rosenzweig, Heinz Rettig, Heinz Stephan Lewy and Wolfgang Blumenreich.

Group portrait of Jewish refugee boys who came to France on a Kindertransport from Germany. Pictured from left to right are: front row: A. Kaczinsky, Eryk Goldfarb, Heinz Stephan Lewy, Gerhard Rosenzweig; middle row: H. Mastbaum, Wolfgang Blumenreich, J. Alter and G. Blatt; top row: B. Warschauer, Walter Herzig, Egon Heysemann, C. Zimmermann and J. Kollender.

Group portrait of Jewish refugee boys who came to France on a Kindertransport from Germany. Pictured in the front row, from left to right, are: Sali Obernicker, Hörst Wolff, Henry Rettig, Ivan Rose, and Hörst Cahn. In the second row are Adi Kimmelfeld, Hans Stern, Pierre Marcuse, Gert Alexander, and Siegfried Knop.

The Children

1. Gert Alexander (Gerhard Alexander, Gérard Alexander) -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN>
2. J. Alter <no information>
3. Norbert Bikales -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN>
4. G. Blatt <no information>
5. Wolfgang Blumenreich (M / Germany, 1924-2007), Holocaust survivor -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- Arrested on Aug 26, 1942 -- Deported to Nexon, Drancy & Auschwitz -- survived
6. Hörst Cahn (M / Germany, 1927), Holocaust survivor]] -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Born: Jan 14, 1927 in Berlin, Germany -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ???
7. Erwin Cosman <no information>
8. Berthold Friedlander <no information>
9. Henry Hoppenstandt <no information>
10. Gerhard Glass (Gérard Glass) -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Born: Oct 29, 1928 in Berlin, Germany -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ???
11. Eryk Goldfarb (Eric Goldfarb) -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Born: ??? -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ??? -- Switzerland
12. Werner Goldschmidt
13. Werner Gossels
14. Claus Gossels (Peter Gossels)
15. Wulf Grajonca (Wolodya Grajonza)
16. Walter Herzig (Ghetti Herzig) Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Born: Jul 12, 1925 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ???
17. Egon Heysmann (Heysemann) <No information>
18. Arno Kaczynski -- Confirmed: <AJPN> <USHMM> -- Born: Jan 1, 1926 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- Arrested: Aug 26, 1942 -- Deported: Nexon, Drancy & Auschwitz - Perished
19. Adi Kimmelfeld <no information>
20. Siegfried Knop -- Confirmed: <AJPN> <USHMM> -- (Nov 11, 1926) -- I was born in Saafeld, East Prussia. It was a small town with only three Jewish children. My father worked at the sawmill. In 1936, I was sent to Auerbach Orphanage in Berlin where I stayed for two years. Under the auspices of the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), I was sent to Chateau de Quincy sous Senart in France until the occupation. After the occupation, I was sent to the Chateau de Chabannes where I lived until I emigrated to the United States. My entire family perished. To my children and grandchildren: embrace your heritage; know who you are as a Jew, and invite each day as a new opportunity.
21. J. Kollender <no further information>
22. Henri Kreft <no further information>
23. Heinz Stephan Lewy
24. Arno Marcuse -- Confirmed: <USHMM> <AJPN> -- Born: Oct 1, 1928 in Berlin, Germany -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ???
25. Pierre Marcuse (?) <no further information>
26. H. Mastbaum <no further information>
27. Ralph Moratz
28. Herbert Oberniker <no further information>
29. Sali Obernicker (?) <no further information>
30. Heinz Rettig (Henry Rettig) <no further information>
31. Ivan Rose <no further information>
32. Gerhard Rosenzweig (M / Germany, 1925-1942), Holocaust victim -- Confirmed: <AJPN> <USHMM> -- Born: Sep 6, 1925 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- Arrested: Aug 26, 1942 -- Deported: Nexon, Drancy & Auschwitz - Perished
33. Hans Stern <no further information>
34. Sammy Stuck <no further information>
35. Bernd Warschauer (M / Germany, 1925-1942), Holocaust victim -- <confirmed> <AJPN> <USHMM> -- Born Apr 1, 1925 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- Arrested: Aug 26, 1942 -- Deported to Nexon, Drancy & Auschwitz - Perished
36. Karl Heinz Wolfberg (M / Germany, 1931), Holocaust survivor -- <confirmed> <AJPN> <USHMM> -- Born Feb 2, 1931 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ??
37. Hörst Wolff
38. Klaus Zimmermann (M / Germany, 1925), Holocaust survivor -- <confirmed> <AJPN> <USHMM> -- Born Feb 19, 1925 -- Auerbach Orphanage -- Chateau de Quency -- Chateau de Chabannes -- ??
39. Egon Zwirn -- <no further information>

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