de Boton family collection

de Boton family collection 

Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs and two tapes; relating to the de Boton family; Dr. Yves de Boton, donor’s father, who was one of the leaders of the Resistance in southern France and who was executed by the Germans in August 1944; Esther de Boton (donor’s mother) died in 1940 and Aline, born in 1937 was taken care of and later adopted by her paternal aunt Alice de Boton and her husband Robert Bernard, later de Boton. The tapes contain interview with Mrs. Alice de Boton.