The children of Elne maternity home

In 1939, amid the barbarity which was being unleashed on Europe, a young Swiss female primary school teacher started a maternity home in an abandoned castle in the French Western Pyrenees which enabled over 600 children of Spanish, Jewish and gypsy refugees to be born and survive. A reversed image of its day, Elne maternity home became the heart of a heartless world, a happy page in the darkest chapter of our history.
France – Humanity – War – Testimony