| Where two Catholic
sisters died in Nazi bombing raid on Algiers. Two Catholic sisters
were praying before this crucifix in a convent in Algiers when German
dive-bombers almost demolished the building, killing them and thirteen
other nuns. The fifteen sisters killed and three who were severely
wounded, remained in the convent at prayers when the raid started while
other sisters guided sixty orphans from the building to the safety of an
air raid shelter. Mother Superior Marie Duval, who had lived at
the convent for thirty-one years, was among the victims. She was
awarded the French Legion of Honor posthumously by General Henri Honore
Giraud, civil and military commander-in-chief of French North and West
Africa, whose citation said, in part: "On April 17, 1943, she was a
victim of German barbarism, as were fourteen of her sisters."
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. |
U.S. Military Gallery 2 Gallery 1 Subject Gallery
| Credits: Crucifix in a convent in Algiers - photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. Call Number, LC-USE613-D-010160. Created/Published, 1943. From the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. The Library of
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