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Alice Anna Weiller (née Javal; 10 October 1869 – 7 September 1943) was a French hostess and art collector who was appointed to the Legion of Honour. The wife of Lazare Weiller, she took an interest in aviation. During the Second World War, she was interned at
at lalsace.fr, accessed 9 October 2019 On 12 August 1889, Alice married Lazare Weiller (1858–1928), industrialist and regional senator, as his second wife, his first having died. They met through a family called Ellissen, her relations, investors in one of his companies. The witnesses at the wedding were
The Weillers had four children, Jean-Pierre (1890), Marie-Thérèse (1890), Georges-André (1892) and Paul-Louis (1893–1993). In 1908, Alice Weiller began to take a keen interest in aviation, after her husband had offered a prize of $10,000 for the first powered flight in France. She met the Wright brothers, who took the prize, and on 9 October 1908 made an early flight in their biplane, two days after Édith Berg. She did not herself become a pilot, as sometimes suggested, but her son Paul-Louis eventually did.
In 1932, Alice Weiller became vice-chairman of a committee of the Alsace-Lorraine Society promoting holiday camps for the working classes and subsequently was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. During the Second World War, she was one of the French Jews interned at the Drancy internment camp near Paris. On 2 September 1943 she was deported to German concentration camps in Poland and was murdered at
Drancy
Drancy () is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in northern France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.
History
Toponymy
The name Drancy comes from Medieval Lati ...
and deported to Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
, where she was murdered.
She was the mother of the aviator and industrialist Paul-Louis Weiller
Paul-Louis Weiller (September 29, 1893, Paris - December 6, 1993, Geneva) was a French industrialist and philanthropist.
Biography
From a Jewish Alsatian family, Weiller was the son of the industrialist and politician Lazare Weiller (1858–1928 ...
.
Life
TheJaval family
The Javal family originated in Alsace. They benefited from Napoleon I's policy of openness toward Jews, and in the 19th century experienced a remarkable ascent, with family members becoming prominent bankers, industrialists, physicians, public offi ...
, who had made their fortune in Alsace, were Jewish mill owners, merchants, and bankers who settled in Paris, where Alice was born. She was the daughter of Louis Émile Javal
Louis Émile Javal (May 5, 1839 – January 20, 1907) was a French ophthalmologist born in Paris. Javal is remembered for his studies of physiological optics and his work involving a disorder known as strabismus.
Early life
He was born in ...
(1839-1907), a well-known ophthalmologist and collector of Japanese art, and his wife Maria Anna Ellissen (1847-1933), and was one of five children, all given a liberal education. Her sister Jeanne married Paul Weiss and was the mother of Louise Weiss, a journalist and campaigner for women's rights and Jenny Aubry
Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (née Weiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Life and career
Born in to the Parisian middle-class elite, to Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945) and Jeanne Félicie Weiss (née J ...
, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.Des femmes sous les feux de la rampeat lalsace.fr, accessed 9 October 2019 On 12 August 1889, Alice married Lazare Weiller (1858–1928), industrialist and regional senator, as his second wife, his first having died. They met through a family called Ellissen, her relations, investors in one of his companies. The witnesses at the wedding were
Eugène Spuller
Eugène Spuller (8 December 183523 July 1896) was a French politician and writer.
He was born at Seurre (Côte-d'Or), his father being a German who had married and settled in France. After studying law at Dijon, he went to Paris, where he was c ...
, the poet Sully Prudhomme, and Adolphe Carnot, brother of the President of France.
The Weillers had four children, Jean-Pierre (1890), Marie-Thérèse (1890), Georges-André (1892) and Paul-Louis (1893–1993). In 1908, Alice Weiller began to take a keen interest in aviation, after her husband had offered a prize of $10,000 for the first powered flight in France. She met the Wright brothers, who took the prize, and on 9 October 1908 made an early flight in their biplane, two days after Édith Berg. She did not herself become a pilot, as sometimes suggested, but her son Paul-Louis eventually did.
In 1932, Alice Weiller became vice-chairman of a committee of the Alsace-Lorraine Society promoting holiday camps for the working classes and subsequently was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. During the Second World War, she was one of the French Jews interned at the Drancy internment camp near Paris. On 2 September 1943 she was deported to German concentration camps in Poland and was murdered at Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
on 7 September.Inscription on the Wall of Names: "Alice WEILLER née le 10/10/1869 à PARIS, déportée à Auschwitz par le convoi n° 59 au départ de Drancy le 02/09/1943."
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