us-005578-irn511041-irn511042
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1942-01-01
has end date: 1949-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 1141
has record set type: Item
history: Annette Krygier (1926-2020) was born Chana Groner on 10 November 1926 in Nowe Miasto, Poland to Dyna Szwajcer and Zysman Groner. She had six siblings: Albert, Rosa, Helene, Therese, Charles, and Jacques. The Groner family left Poland between 1934 and 1935 to join Annette’s uncles already living in Paris, France. Albert was arrested in Paris on 14 May 1941 and interned at Pithiviers concentration camp after he presented himself to a French Gendarme. At that time, Rosa was engaged to marry Ari Gutman, and they befriended a French woman in Pithiviers, who brought them food. Rosa decided to have her wedding at the camp so that Albert could attend. She received permission to take Ari, herself, a rabbi, her parents, Annette, and their older sister to the camp in order to witness the wedding. While there, Albert gave the family a cup, a sailboat, and a Kiddush cup that he had created in while in the camp. The family eventually gave these items to a French woman to hide for them during the war. The family went into hiding in Paris, and in 1942 Annette and Helen, along with 3 other Jewish girls were sent to live in a convent in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. The nuns encouraged the girls to continue practicing their Judaism, even providing them with matzah and extra potatoes during Passover. In January 1943, Annette took on the false identity"Alice Grenier" Only Souer Jeanne-Francoise Zufferey and the Mother Superior the Honorable Mere Antoinette du Sacre Coere knew her true identity. By August 1944 when Annette and Helen's parents came to join them, there were 62 Jewish girls living at the convent. In September 1944 their maternal grandfather joined them as well. He was given a room, complete with a mechitza [screen to separate seating between men and women] to lead services for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. After liberation, the family returned to Paris. The family searched for Albert's whereabouts and discovered he was deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Annette met fe…
history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn511042
is or was included in: us-005578-irn511041
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scope and content: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Annette Krygier (née Groner) and her husband Leon Krygier, both originally of Nowe Miasto, Poland. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, family records, immigration papers, and photographs taken while Annette was in hiding in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
title: Annette Krygier papers