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René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Jay Winter. Part 1: Family and early years. 1887-1914. Henri ( Azaria ) Cassin, aged 95. Gabrielle and Cécile Dreyfus. Fédia , René, Félice , and Yvonne Cassin, c. 1892. René and his sister Yvonne, Nice 1900.

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René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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  1. René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Jay Winter

  2. Part 1: Family and early years 1887-1914

  3. Henri (Azaria) Cassin, aged 95

  4. Gabrielle and Cécile Dreyfus

  5. Fédia, René, Félice, and Yvonne Cassin, c. 1892

  6. René and his sister Yvonne, Nice 1900

  7. Cassin the student, 1902

  8. René and other students in Aix

  9. Rachel Cottage, Bayonne

  10. Medical file on Cassin’s wounds and treatment, October 1914

  11. Part 2: Soldier of the Great War 1914-1940

  12. Cassin recuperating, 1914-15

  13. René and Simone, 1915, Antibes

  14. Félice Abram and her children, 1930

  15. Cassin the Jurist of the Veterans’ Movement in the 1920s

  16. Cassin (3rd from left, 1st row)at International Veterans’ Movement (CIAMAC) congress, 1925

  17. Cassin (middle) at Annual Congress of French Disabled Men and Veterans

  18. Cassin recovering from surgery, 1936

  19. ‘This is not a testament’, 1936

  20. Cassin on holiday, 1939

  21. Part 3: Jurist of Free France 1940-44

  22. In Carlton Gardens, London, 1940

  23. Cassin (on right) at St James’s Palace, 24 September 1941

  24. The French National Committee, September 1941 Cassin 3rd from right Gaulle’s

  25. Cassin visiting war cemetery, Aleppo

  26. Cassin reviewing the troops, Brazzaveille, 1942

  27. Part 4: The Universal Declaration and the Nobel Prize 1944-1976

  28. Cassin and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1948

  29. Ceremonial Sword, Member of the French Institute, 1948 From the top: Flame Insignia of UF (On the grip): A winged woman, signifying peace and love (dedicated to Ghislaine) Cross of Lorraine (on the cross guard) : Hercules, slaying the dragon of hatred Hands clasped, signifying amity among the peoples

  30. Cassin as President of the European Court of Human Rights, 1965

  31. Vice-President of the Conseild’Etat In the galleries of the Palais Royal

  32. Cassin at the UN, 1968

  33. Cassin with announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1968

  34. Cassin and AaseLionaes, President of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo, 1968

  35. Cassin (on left) with the family of Andre Chouraqui, Jerusalem, 1968

  36. With Pope Paul VI, 1968

  37. Dancing in Mauritius after a jurists’ conference, 1968

  38. GhislaineBru, Film Star, 1935

  39. GhislaineConnochie, Passport Photo, 1943

  40. GhislaineConnochie, France Libre, 1944

  41. Ghislaine Rene Cassin, 1970

  42. Cassin’s last letter, signed ‘a survivor of 14-18’, on the blessing he received from the Cure of Dompcevrin, in October 1914

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