Celinka Zilberbogen at the OSE Orphanage

This photograph was taken in 1945 at the OSE (‘’Oeuvre de secours aux enfants’’) orphanage in Andrésy, a town located north-west of Paris, France. Celinka Zilberbogen sits at the first table and looks at the camera while eating. Behind her, other children are eating in the dining hall.

Celinka Zilberbogen at the OSE Orphanage

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Photograph was taken in 1945 at the OSE (‘’Oeuvre de secours aux enfants’’) orphanage in Andrésy, a town located north-west of Paris, France. Celinka Zilberbogen sits at the first table and looks at the camera while eating.

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Celinka’s parents, Chana and Szygmundt Zilberbogen, before the war.

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Sisters Celinka (right) and Elzbieta Zilberbogen (left) in 1938.

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Celinka Zilberbogen photographed in 1942.

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Young girls from the Andrésy orphanage dancing in the park. Celinka is the first girl on the right.

The Story of the Zilberbogen Family

Celinka, her sister Elzbieta and mother Chana lived in Brussels in 1939. Her father Szygmundt remained in Poland, their native country, where he was later killed during the Holocaust. Chana and her daughters were deported to the Brens transit camp in the South of France. They escaped the camp and Celinka and Elzbieta went into hiding. The sisters were taken care of by the OSE, an organisation that saved more than 5,000 children of the Holocaust. Chana was hospitalized in the Mazamet sanatorium where she stayed until 1947.

After the war, the three women returned to Belgium before immigrating to Canada in 1951.

Celinka donated this photograph to the Montreal Holocaust Montreal in 2012.

This project is part of the implementation of the Plan culturel numérique du Québec.