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| Keywords: Algerie alger couvent orphelinat combardement 1943.jpg en Algiers convent where fifteen nuns were killed by Nazi bombs When German dive bombers raided the North African port of Algiers on April 17 fifteen Catholic sisters perished at their prayers as the bombs demolished this convent-orphanage The fifteen who died and three sisters who were severely wounded remained behind to pray when the raid started while other nuns led sixty orphans from the building to the safety of an air raid shelter Among the victims was Mother Superior Marie Duval who had been at the convent for thirty-one years General Henri Honore Giraud civil and military commander-in-chief of French North and West Africa awarded Mother Duval the French Legion of Honor posthumously stating On April 17 1943 she was a victim of German barbarism as were fourteen of her sisters This picture was radiophotoed from North Africa to the United States http //memory loc gov/pnp/fsa/8b12000/8b12800/8b12878u tif U S Army photo from OWI / Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division Washington DC 20540 1943-04-17 PD-USGov 1943 Algier Convent-bombing French Algeria in World War II Algier Convent-bombing Algiers in the 1940s War crimes Algier Convent-bombing World War II bombing damage Algier Convent-bombing Christianity in Algeria | ||||
