Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there
Watercolor created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1994 depicting the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked for Suisse Secours aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children] as a nurse in 1941-1942. The Vichy regime, which governed unoccupied France, interned thousands of refugees in detention camps. By spring 1942, Rivesaltes was a central transit point for the frequent deportations of Jews to killing ...



