archive31 August 2009Farewell to forgeries: The V&A’s Fakes Gallery to closeThe V&A’s guidebook used to describe the Fakes Gallery as one of its “most diverse archive1 November 2010'Jesuit priest' donates fraudulent works Academic museums and universities are being targeted by a suspected art forger Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker a museum dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus revealed most of its paintings were probably not by him Odette Traby was dying. It was the summer of 2016 and the sun baked the terracotta roofs of her hometown, Elne, in the south of France the 78-year-old had been diagnosed with stage IV cancer This grande dame of Elne town life had refused all treatment and chosen to tough it out alone “She was someone who wanted to grapple with Traby had one consolation. She had spent the previous months trying to secure the future of her life’s work, the town’s art museum. It was dedicated to the work of the local artist Étienne Terrus (1857-1922), a friend of Henri Matisse who had been largely forgotten by the time Traby established the museum in the mid-90s When nearly 60 Terruses came on to the market in 2015 Traby rallied two local historical associations to raise tens of thousands of euros at least Traby could tell herself that her beloved museum was closer to gaining the “Musée de France” status that would give it priority state funding and resources There was just one problem. On 27 April 2018, more than 18 months after Traby’s death, Elne’s mayor stood at the inauguration of the renovated Musée Terrus and announced to the public that nearly 60% of its collection was fake had known for months; 82 works out of a total of 140 had already been seized by the gendarmerie in nearby Perpignan Barniol was soon fielding calls from the New York Times “But 60,000 people have seen these fakes over the last 15 years – that’s unforgivable.” Russian troll factories – but many of the alleged Terrus fakes were sloppy whose job it was to prevent this from happening And who painted the fakes that entered the museum with such distressing ease I take a stroll around Elne on the first day of June 2018 It is a calm huddle of 8,500 people who live around a fortified hill nine miles north of the Spanish border in the Pyrenées-Orientales département; Hannibal pitched camp here when it went by the name Illiberis and was the regional capital The blue-gabled house where Terrus’s descendants still live is next to the ramparts in the lower section of town a long-faced pensioner behind the gate swats me away: “Non!” There were watercolours on paper that didn’t look a century old, with a weft commonly available only after the warEric Forcada he wears his politics on his breast – a yellow Catalan ribbon – and his trainers The 43-year-old smiles wryly as he explains his involvement he was chosen by the Elne municipality to oversee the renovation of Musée Terrus he knew something was wrong: “I said to myself There was barely any stylistic consistency among the new works “holiday-club” stuff – not consistent with the work of the charged colourist who had captivated Matisse Terrus spurned a Parisian academy education to paint nature in his backyard the vigour and heat that ran through his work rooted in a strong Catalan identity Further investigation into the museum’s collection revealed more anomalies the signature came off when Forcada brushed it with a gloved hand Another had been signed twice: Terrus and J Armengol There were watercolours on perfect white paper that didn’t look a century old with a tight industrial weft commonly available only after the second world war Most flagrant seemed to be the case of two oil paintings featuring the Château Royal at Collioure, the port a few miles south where Matisse jointly established fauvism the movement that sounded the fanfare of modern art The paintings featured a flat-roofed tower on the castle that had been renovated that way in 1957; by then An alleged forgery in the Musée Terrus collection……and Terrus’s original Photograph: courtesy of Montfreid private collectionBacked up by three other specialists Forcada explained his findings at a meeting of the two associations that had funded their purchase; his views were later corroborated by another expert who must remain anonymous under the terms of an ongoing police investigation “How could they have been fooled when they did everything in good faith?” He soon realised he had stirred a hornets’ nest he started receiving calls from private collectors who wanted him to verify their works by Terrus – and other artists It became clear that the art market in Roussillon – the wider region containing Pyrenées-Orientales – was “gangrenous”; Forcada estimates there are hundreds of forgeries in circulation is putting a large collection it has just been bequeathed under close scrutiny to avoid such embarrassment; Forcada Traby had started to lose sight in one eye possibly leaving her less able to spot red flags in the new acquisitionsForcada thinks the forgers exploited the intensity of the Roussillon art market Many of this group were relatively little-known; their works were not valuable enough to be subject to the kind of scrutiny a Pablo Picasso Surrounding the giants who came to work here in the 20th century’s first decade – while Matisse and André Derain invented fauvism at Collioure Picasso and Georges Braques workshopped cubism in the mountains at Céret – was a tight-knit hub of locals George-Daniel de Monfreid and Madeleine Arnaud A dapper gent in a pink blazer walks over to the cafe where we are talking and chips into our conversation the director of the office of Perpignan’s mayor he has organised exhibitions and says he understands the local mentality “Often people buy a painting because it shows a bit of their village not necessarily because of who painted it,” he says has translated into a “narcissism” susceptible to exploitation – particularly if “I’m the only one to bear her name,” says Frédéric Traby he and I are in a Perpignan lawyer’s office with his cousin Delay They are her closest living relatives (she had no children) and have never talked to the press before They tell me about the force of nature who was their aunt: “She was a militant passionate in everything she did,” says Frédéric five times a cultural adjunct and the founder of a Catalan music festival as well as the town’s first girls’ basketball team But she could be brusque and authoritarian The social club she founded for Elne’s art aficionados was named Le Cercle des Authentiques Cabochards (“The Circle of Old Gits”) she had the air of someone dedicated monastically to higher things regarded in his time as a wild “bear” with no time for bourgeois propriety She took up his cause with complete dedication Traby set up Musée Terrus with her long-term partner she became the leading authority on the artist who succeeded Traby as Elne’s cultural adjunct in 2008 deferred to her on matters relating to Terrus perhaps calamitously in the case of the town hall’s 2013 acquisition of 16 Terruses “You have to understand it in the context of the town alert woman squinting uneasily through heavy-rimmed glasses over a picnic table in her garden who fenced with her over the price of acquisitions “‘You don’t haggle over art like a carpet,’ she’d say.” Is it real or is it fake? In this painting of the Château Royal at Collioure, the tower roof is flat……but in Terrus’s lifetime Photograph: the Commune of ElneNo one I speak to questions Traby’s integrity But after Barniol and his rightwing administration was voted into office in early 2014 she pushed harder for acquisitions – fearful of losing her influence over the museum possibly leaving her less able to spot red flags in the new acquisitions “The only thing she’s guilty of is believing too much,” says Frédéric I decide to dig into the provenance of the Terruses The vast majority were acquired by the museum’s steering body which consisted of Traby; Gérard Rouquié and Alain Lesage two Perpignan art dealers; and a twentysomething intern who is now in ill-health Rouquié – a well-known figure in the Roussillon art-dealing world – authenticated them the Musée Terrus case has passed en instruction – a higher tier of investigation led by an examining magistrate reserved for more serious crimes Forcada was interviewed by the police for five and a half hours to see if he had any vested interests in outing the Elne fakes The case isn’t moving as fast as he had hoped I find Rouquié and Lesage’s peach-fronted shop in a poky square round the corner from the cathedral I peer up the three-storey facade; latticed shutters have been drawn halfway down the windows who has seen me snooping: “They’re always up there looking out Wearing jogging bottoms and a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “London” the wiry 79-year-old rocks on his heels in his doorway make of the declaration of the Elne paintings as fake “La montagne accouche d’une souris,” he says (“They’ve made a mountain out of a molehill”) “There are maybe some doubts about 10% of the collection but I don’t know where they’re getting 60% from.” He retired as an active dealer in 2001 and installed Lesage The police still haven’t formally interviewed him but they have seized documents related to his work on the Terrus committee Rouquié tells me he met Traby for the first time in the mid-00s when she saw a watercolour by Terrus in his window After they supplied her with more Terruses she invited Rouquié and Lesage on to the museum committee Although he issued the certificates of authenticity as a formality (The intern on the committee later tells me Rouquié had much more sway than this.) Eric Forcada Photograph: Samuel Aranda/Panos/The GuardianThe committee had little expertise in Terrus’s work: Rouquié was the only member with any relevant qualifications He says he saw no conflict of interest in authenticating the paintings sold by his partner: “It’s totally normal there are plenty of people on committees who buy and sell.” (A British expert tells me it is true that the French system is far more laissez-faire.) Regarding the improbable stylistic variation among the works Rouquié argues that Terrus “did a bit of everything” He claims the industrial watercolour paper dates back to 1880 and that in certain circumstances it can weather decades unscathed he decided to give it a different roof,’ who can prove the contrary?” But the precise roof that was built 40 years later on the same tower ‘He couldn’t have imagined a roof,’ it’s totally idiotic including two “wheeler-dealers” who had supplied him for many years and a court bailiff auction that furnished a single oil painting a former estate agent who lives in the region Rouquié and Monsieur X only completed the transactions in April 2018 when Rouquié insisted he write him a formal receipt (now with the police) Rouquié claims he paid Monsieur X with luxury watches worth €25,000 and “thousands” in cash – not unusual for traders and collectors who want to avoid tax audits reading off the deposition he has prepared for the gendarmerie I have no idea if he has done it deliberately or not I’ll smash his face in.” Two spaniels yelp and bounce up and down near the windows Amiel lives in a cavernous mansion in the village of St Paul de Fenouillet He admits selling his collection to Lesage in 2016 pointing out several supposed fakes by local artists some of the many artworks and antiques he says Rouquié has sold him since 2000 Forcada has declined to evaluate artwork shown to him by Amiel because the estate agent’s role in the affair is “not clear” a record book he is legally obliged to keep detailing two batches of Terruses purchased from Amiel in October 2012 and May 2013 They were not among the 30-odd works that ended up in the museum through the Elne associations; Rouquié told me those sales took place off the books corresponds to the sale signed off at Elne municipality in 2013 – the paintings that hung in the town hall Rouquié steadfastly denies that he and Lesage knowingly acquired fakes from Amiel If Amiel was the source of many of the paintings offered to the two associations What was the origin of the other works that found their way into the museum collection What of the 1,000 fakes believed to be in private hands Forcada’s hunch is that the Roussillon forgery network is split into two parts: one targeting the museums and bourgeois clients another the more informal street markets and regional auction houses Several antiques dealers I speak to claim that organised criminal networks often play a role in introducing China-produced fakes flea markets and auction houses across France one name keeps cropping up: that of a local trader Rouquié’s record book confirms that this mystery man is a supplier one of the wheeler-dealers he mentioned in our first interview A former police officer reveals that the man has sold forgeries to auction houses in Pyrenées-Orientales so the sales are documented but confidential January 2019. People turn up at the Musée Terrus asking to see the fakes, but the police still have them. Visitor numbers are down. No one has been charged. The magistrate who led the investigation for six months has gone on sabbatical and been replaced by someone else, who has since left for unexplained reasons, leaving no one in charge. Rouquié receives me again in his office, recovering from a stomach operation made necessary by the pressure, he says. He still insists that most of the seized works are genuine. I don’t know if he is lying, telling the truth or a cloudy cocktail of the two – that he convinced himself the paintings were by Terrus and let Traby take the responsibility. Meanwhile, Amiel refuses all requests for follow-up interviews and has put his house up for sale. Forcada is impatient but resolute. Some people believe the historian’s Catalan allegiances have led him to hold Terrus in too high regard, and to overestimate the number of fakes in circulation. It is clear a lot of the alleged forgeries are leaden and pedantic; but in Paris a collector shows me a genuine Terrus, a watercolour that is nearly as uninspired. The artist did have his off-days. Read moreForcada is calling for a clean-up of the market led by state museums – for example by offering their expertise to private collectors He believes the market could face an even greater crisis in a few decades’ time when the current generation of collectors dies and their fakes go up for sale he wants to encourage a change of philosophy among collectors so we’re not drawn necessarily to fetishising a single work for its value but to understanding the overall worth of an artist’s life.” Traby organised her death with the same singlemindedness She finally agreed to go into a palliative clinic – because of the pain but also to give a prying neighbour the slip even from other family members: their aunt didn’t want Elne’s professional mourners there with whom Traby had founded her music festival “She was the master of ceremonies until her final moments,” says Frédéric “There are very few people like that: ‘It’s my life from A to Z and it’s me who decides.’” which are now in the possession of the police Traby asked for a room in Musée Terrus to take her name She may not be remembered for the reasons she wanted but hanging there are 19 paintings that speak for her undying love of art and truth If you would like a comment on this piece to be considered for inclusion on Weekend magazine’s letters page in print, please email weekend@theguardian.com including your name and address (not for publication) Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Memoirs of the last surviving 'Mother of Elne', who gave birth in a maternity hospital for refugees in France Remei Oliva has returned to Elne Maternity hospital for the launch of the Catalan translation of her memoirs as a Civil War exile When Spain fell to Franco's fascist troops a 20-year-old Remei was forced to abandon her job as a seamstress in Badalona she spent fifteen months in internment camps in Argelès-sur-Mer and Saint-Cyprien a converted château set up by Swiss schoolteacher Elisabeth Eidenbenz to provide a safe place for pregnant refugees to give birth Remei is the last surviving 'Mother of Elne' just shy of her 103rd birthday (she was born September 29 she was back at the hospital to attend a commemorative event and the launch of the Catalan translation of her autobiography Remei was encouraged to write the book by one of her daughters-in-law and then they were rearranged chronologically "Because I kept everything in my memory I was able to write it down just as it was," she said during the presentation Elne Maternity was a godsend for those pregnant women like Remei who lived in terrible conditions in the internment camps and she is glad that later in life she was able to meet and thank again the woman behind the hospital 597 children of Republican exiles detained at the Argelès-sur-Mer internment camp were born there between 1939 and 1944 Remei hopes that her book ensures that "the memory lives on" and that the barbarity of war and exile will never be forgotten Catalonia's justice minister Lourdes Ciuró said that Remei's story was a "very valuable testimony" because it is a symbol of the courage and dignity of exiled Republican women "It gives us a clear picture of all the women who were victims of that forced exile "She tells us about life in the refugee camps about the absence of fathers for the children About how everyone struggled internally to survive in subhuman conditions and how The Catalan translation of Remei Oliva's memoirs is called 'La noia de la capsa de fils' (The Sewing Box Girl) Get the day's biggest stories right to your phone There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Museums are the safeguards of original artworks it was discovered that over half of the paintings in Étienne Terrus museum in Elne were counterfeits Amedeo Modigliani exhibition in Italy saw its collection cut by more than half when it was revealed that 82 of the museum's 142 works were forgeries This small museum in southern France spent more than $190,000 on forged or fake art southern France-based art historian Eric Forcada was serving as a guest curator to a small As he was hanging one of the museum’s paintings on a wall after a $365,000 renovation project which was attributed to a local modern artist named Étienne Terrus when he gently brushed his white glove over the signature it wiped off to reveal a different signature underneath Forcada told the museum staff that he suspected the artwork was a fake. After convening with other art historians, the experts confirmed the work was not, in fact, a Terrus original they found that not only was this one painting faked but more than half of the museum’s collection wasn’t made by Terrus On Friday, the museum reopened after its renovation, showcasing 60 authenticated works on its walls But authorities say it could take years to link the case to the person behind it—art criminals notoriously prey on the works of lesser known artists “A fake is a pre-existing work of art that has been altered in some way to fraudulently increase its value,” says Charney “A forgery is a new work created wholesale from scratch in fraudulent imitation of something else or the style of another artist.” Police found that of the 142 works at the Museé Terrus 82 were not real Terruses. Over the course of two decades, the museum had spent more than $190,000 on paintings, drawings, and watercolors falsely credited to Terrus, obtained through fundraising campaigns and private collectors. The museum, which doesn’t have a trained curator or a team solely dedicated to acquisitions, relied on its founder to acquire works by the artist. To draw more tourists to the area, the town of Elne began investing more in the museum to restore the paintings, install better lighting, and regulate the building’s temperature to better preserve the works. Other canvases were from the correct era but painted by other artists were created by Terrus’ contemporaries like Pierre Brune “The bigger problem with museums is not purchases that tend to come under scrutiny but the acceptance of works on loan that may be problematic,” Charney says “Most museums around the world rely on loan objects and … museums might not question works offered on loan if they look good because they rely on such loans to fill their walls.” “I would imagine that at least 95 percent of everything that is displayed in museums is exactly what the museums think it is, meaning it is not misattributed, and it is neither a fake nor forgery,” Charney says. “It may be safe to say that some 20 percent of a museum’s entire holdings are problematic in terms of authenticity, which means they were actually inadvertently misattributed, or perhaps, in very rare cases, a proactive fake or forgery.” AP Photo","text":"This forged Mark Rothko painting was part of an art dealer's 15-year scam that fooled collectors into buying more than $60 million of counterfeit paintings attributed to Rothko and others This forged Mark Rothko painting was part of an art dealer's 15-year scam that fooled collectors into buying more than $60 million of counterfeit paintings attributed to Rothko and others German police broke up a multimillion-dollar international forgery ring producing bogus works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists like Vasily Kandinsky Dutch master forger Han van Meegeren's forgery of Vermeer's The Last Supper hangs on display at the De Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam convinced the Bolton Museum to buy this faked statue of an Egyptian princess for nearly $600,000 Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who is said to have sold more than a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article activities on preceding journals at which the article was previously under consideration are not shown (for instance submission All content on this site: Copyright © 2025 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. 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Read our Privacy notice An art gallery in the south of France has discovered that more than half of its collection of paintings are forgeries The state-owned museum dedicated to the Catalan artist Étienne Terrus in Elne spent an estimated 160,000 euros (£140,000) on the fakes over 20 years drawings and watercolours were first raised by art historian Eric Forcada several months ago He noticed that some of them depicted buildings that were only constructed after Terrus' death in 1922 A committee of experts have now confirmed that 82 of the 140 works were not painted by the artist "It is a catastrophe," said Yves Barniol "I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum "It is unacceptable and I hope we find those responsible." The municipal council has recently invested 300,000 euros on renovating the Terrus Museum Police are now investigating allegations of forgery and fraud and suspect the counterfeiting may extend to other regional artists and museums It has been estimated that at least 20 per cent of the paintings held by major galleries are fake. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Everything began to unravel for the museum (which is located in the south of France in the same city where Étienne Terrus was born) when a visiting art historian named Eric Forcada happened to tour the gallery. After leaving, he decided to contact local authorities about what he suspected to be fake paintings by the Terrus, a man who was contemporaries and friends with the great French artist Henri Matisse. One simple way investigators were able to determine that some paintings were fraudulent was that certain buildings featured in the works were completed after the artist's death in 1922. And while no one is sure where the forgeries originated, there is one thing that can we can all be certain about: Somewhere, Dan Brown is taking copious notes. 60 per cent of the paintings in the Etienne Terrus museum were found to be fake The counterfeits were spotted by art historian Eric Forcada Okla — If you see a police officer walk up to you this week This week is Tulsa police’s annual ‘Random Acts of Kindness Week,’ a week when officers give back to the community The Tulsa Police Foundation receives donations from across Green Country ranging from food for meal kits and toys to money—this year they have $20,000 worth of Walmart and Quiktrip gift cards and officers volunteer their time to give these gifts to random people 2 News went with Detective Linda Hanna and witnessed her and two workers from the victim’s unit surprise many by giving out gift cards who has been participating since the event started She said it’s a good part of her job to give back to someone just to help to make your life a little bit brighter and let you know people care about you." is a grandmother who is grieving after her 27-year-old daughter unexpectedly passed away before Thanksgiving Haana and the two victims’ unit workers went to her house and delivered food for a Christmas meal and toys for her grandkids Hanna got emotional when talking about the encounter “It’s nice to be able to just bless somebody and say hey I’m not here to do anything I’m not here as a bad part of your life today Watching the Olympics from an apartment in Provo while the family celebrates the spirit in the host country of the Winter Games may not sound too appealing but such is the case for a group of Russian students at BYU Elena Filatova is one of six Russian students currently studying English at the English Language Center (ELC) a lab school of BYU. 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Although he is still being pursued by Spanish prosecutors and is currently the subject of a terrorism probe the separatist leader has expressed confidence that the controversial Catalan amnesty bill passed by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government will allow him to return to his native land in time to take office “Today the countdown for my return begins,” he said adding that he would return to Catalonia if he has majority support to be sworn in as president of the region “I will leave exile permanently to attend the plenary session and ask for the confidence of the parliament in person.” Puigdemont’s victory in the regional elections is anything but assured and it is unclear whether the millions who came out in favor of Puigdemont’s self-determination referendum back in 2017 will be moved to back his bid for higher office The separatist leader was last a candidate to lead Catalonia in 2021; on that occasion Puigdemont broached the possibility of pro-independence parties 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one of the most interesting subjects in art A lot of paintings are old and sketchily documented Many great artists didn't sign their work or have handy magazine profiles written about them So much has been forgotten and so much that has survived has been restored over time and lost much of its context With the arrival of an art museum in Animal Crossing this week - and a sudden outpouring of lavish canvases with little documentation - I've been thinking of one of the strangest stories of art forgery I've ever heard It's a story about a French painter called Etienne Terrus and a gallery devoted to his work The Etienne Terrus Museum is situated in Elne, a small French community in Southern France. According to a Guardian piece from the 30th April an acquisition of new works brought with it an art historian to take a look at the collection and lead to the discovery that "nearly 60% of the entire collection was fake." apparently - many of them crude and some of them featuring anachronisms this is one of those amusing news stories that does the rounds quickly and then vanishes because ultimately there's something desperately sad about it This is the work of an artist who really belonged to a community - an artist the community was intensely proud of The fakes - and the quality of some of them - must have lead to real soul-searching a sense that this communal pride had been weaponised and turned against people There is something about art forgery that is perfect for video games the sort of things hundreds of great puzzle games have hinged on But by exploring all of this in the context of a community that is perhaps the ultimate victim of the fraud Painting can take a fleeting moment and make it solid the art historian who went to Elne and uncovered the strange truth "the ink signature was wiped away when I passed my white glove over it." © 2025 Eurogamer.net a brand of IGN Entertainment No part of this website or its content may be reproduced without the copyright owner's permission Eurogamer is a registered trademark of Gamer Network Limited kindergarteners and teddies enjoying the Happy Healthy Teddies program A group of dedicated James Cook University (JCU) medical students recently brought smiles and important health lessons to the children of C&K Innisfail Community Kindergarten and Preschool through the Happy Healthy Teddies program along with Year 4 students Ravi-Pascal Balasingam and Anthony Goweid to deliver hands-on (and paws-on) learning to some enthusiastic students The Happy Healthy Teddies Program is a child-friendly initiative that aims to instil vital primary healthcare lessons from an early age JCU medical students visit childcare centres and primary schools in rural Queensland communities offering a free and interactive health program designed to raise awareness and educate children about essential health practices This program was conceptualised by JCU medical student Mitee Parekh who drew inspiration from the Teddy Bear Hospital program developed by the Ashintosh Foundation and the University of Queensland JCU medical students volunteer their time during their placements at healthcare facilities in rural communities to run the Happy Healthy Teddies sessions The primary goal of the program is to foster positive relationships between healthcare professionals and young children. JCU medical students teach the importance of good nutrition the Happy Healthy Teddies program encourages children to embrace key health messages expressed her delight in being part of such a rewarding initiative "The Happy Healthy Teddies program not only imparts crucial health knowledge but also helps JCU medical students engage with the local community It is heartening to witness the positive impact they have on the children fostering a lifelong appreciation for health and well-being." The C&K Innisfail Community Kindergarten and Preschool staff and parents were thrilled with the Happy Healthy Teddies session It is wonderful to see the dedication of the JCU medical students and the positive impact they have on our community," said Alison Whatling The Happy Healthy Teddies program medical student volunteers and attendees The Happy Healthy Teddies program has been made possible through the Rural Doctors Foundation Grants for Good Health stream which provided funding for program materials This generous support ensures that children in rural Queensland communities have access to educational and preventative health programs empowering them with the knowledge to make informed decisions about their well-being The success of the Happy Healthy Teddies program lies in the commitment and passion of JCU medical students who actively contribute to the health and well-being of rural communities Their efforts not only benefit the children they engage with but also strengthen the 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Designed by Corkwoman Mary Elmes was awarded Israel’s highest honour for saving countless Jewish children from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Less well known is her work helping to feed over 80,000 French schoolchildren who faced near-famine conditions. In an area of southwest France the size of Munster, all of the children knew her name... Those words will always conjure up for us the idea of snacks that we have been without for so long: chocolate and jam was nine years old when she wrote those words from seven-year-old Marcelle Mas at the same school pass on lots and lots of thanks-you to our friends in America.” said: “In exchange for all your good things we have nothing to offer you but our friendship Mary Elmes and her colleagues received thousands of similar letters from grateful French schoolchildren and their parents who wanted to convey “truckloads of thank-yous” for the food medical aid and clothes received during the war years and afterwards As well as helping the refugees in the camps the Quakers did what they could to alleviate the acute suffering that also affected the French population Food shortages were already severe in the first winter after the fall of France warned that the region was facing “near-famine conditions” The mayor happened to mention to Mary that the local council was no longer able to finance the school-feeding scheme that it had run in crèches and nursery schools for years She was said to have been “profoundly moved” by the news and immediately contacted her superior Children being fed at a children’s home set up by MaryHe was able to rally 50 days’ worth of food supplies and sent 1,600kg of rice 128kgs of cocoa and 512kg of sugar to Carcassonne the makings of a comforting chocolate-pudding snack Some days later a local newspaper published an account of the Quakers’ generosity The mayor said he was “profoundly touched” by the gesture During her tenure Mary and her Quaker colleagues provided school snacks or a midday meal to more than 84,000 children in schools in the south of France The most common — and most popular — snack was the famous Quaker chocolate pudding but delegates also spent considerable time trying to work out the right proportion of ingredients to maximise the nutritional content They also wanted it to taste good and on occasion sampled it for themselves “I tasted the pudding and found it quite palatable,” Mary’s colleague Donald Stevenson reported after one school visit “The children evidently liked it for it disappeared very rapidly I wish that the ration for each child could have been larger Double the amount would seem to me to have given them more of a meal.” and children in the region lost a tenth of their weight in one 10-month period in 1941 Howard Kershner reported with alarm in a letter to Mary Her office in Perpignan monitored the crisis by distributing weight charts to schools They noted each pupil’s weight increase — or loss— after the distribution of food aid but many remained the same and often lost weight The Quakers responded by issuing millions of doses of vitamins incorporated in little squares of chocolate Each one was done up in a small wrapper explaining that it was a gift from the American people which was delivered by the Quaker workers as a symbol of friendship grateful recipients wrote postcards and letters of thanks like the ones written personally to ‘Miss Elmes’ A Christmas card from refugees at St Cyprien camp (Pictures Courtesy of MCUSA Archives)A pupil was chosen to say a special word of thanks; then everyone would shout ‘Vive l’Amérique’ and ‘Vive la France’ before tucking in There are hundreds of surviving examples of children’s poems Marguerite Chalverat addressed her note to the ‘dear Americans’ and told them that she had gained two kilos (4½ pounds) because of their gift and was now in good health Her classmate Simone Baile wrote: “Thank you for the good things that you have sent us and that do so much good I am always very happy at 4 o’clock when we are given our snack.” the class at the Jules Ferry school in Montpellier was inspired to write a poem: A new year card from one of the refugees.However the letters and cards were not only touching expressions of politeness: they were a vital part of a well-oiled publicity machine that was designed to keep American donations flowing Howard Kershner frequently reminded volunteers that propaganda in America was of the utmost importance for replenishing the funds He knew the burden of the work load on volunteers but said it was vital to send stories and pictures of the children who benefited from American largesse put it more bluntly in a letter to Mary Elmes: “The London and Philadelphia offices have been howling for human interest stories and so I don’t dare to set a date in the month for the stories and pictures.” But she added: “I can’t stress too much the importance of these two items.” Some of those stories were written on postcards with studio-produced images of idealised French children: unrealistic representations of perfect boys and girls The contrast between those images and the contemporary photographs taken of schoolchildren eagerly drinking from bowls could not be more marked The head office of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia was particularly interested in the latter as they were more likely to provoke a generous public response. In January 1942 issued a press statement to warn that the conditions of malnutrition and starvation throughout Europe were becoming increasingly acute It read: “The results of hunger are already manifest not only in arrested growth and lack of resistance to contagious diseases They quote a principal of a large school who states: “A rule understood and known the day of the lesson is forgotten the next day and absolutely forgotten as though they had never learned it What will become of our schoolchildren if this keeps on “If Europe is ever to find her way back to enduring peace we must find some way to save her children.” Postcard image: courtesy of the American Friends Service CommitteeHOWEVER getting that food from America to Europe posed another problem The delivery of food was being severely hampered by the Allied blockade which had been implemented to restrict the supply of goods to Nazi Germany but was causing widespread hardship The English Quakers pointed this out in a declaration to the office of the British prime minister “Hunger is a weapon that affects an entire population but ravages the young to the greatest extent The food blockade does not only contribute to hunger it also creates and encourages a heartless attitude in those responsible for the blockade in the destruction of our Christian values The Quakers acknowledged the “serious political and technical difficulties” that could be caused by food parcels but urged the British government to find a solution so that food and clothing could be delivered to the countries that were cut off Their appeal did not lead to any concessions There was the added complication of trying to stay on the right side of the Vichy and German authorities a point made on several occasions by Howard Kershner in France In one memo he warned the staff to be careful of what they said when it came to publicity: “Nothing should be said that might make it more difficult to carry on our work in cooperation with the many authorities of different nationalities with whom we have to deal not a can of milk comes from Switzerland without the approval of the German control the necessity for preserving strict neutrality and speaking most respectfully for all When we remember furthermore that our life-line goes through Spain and know all the influences that are at work there we are reminded that we must not allow anyone who is supporting us to make statements or engage in activity which is not directly in accordance with our well known principles of impartiality in conducting relief work.” If hunger was an issue among the French population as a whole Mary Elmes’s report on the Rivesaltes camp told of the “terrible hunger” among the internees (968 men 1,833 women and 1,209 children): “They never can eat their fill even of the miserably unpalatable and un-nourishing soup served to them twice daily.” The memory of those deprivations stayed with Carmen Canadell for the rest of her life in 1939 with her sister Mercedes and her mother Mary would later play a role in their lives but in the intervening two years Carmen’s family endured untold suffering The Canadell sisters Carmen and Mercedes (Picture courtesy of MCUSA Archives).When they arrived in France they were moved from camp to camp María’s mother gave birth to her third child the rest of the family had to apply for documents to be able to join him María and her three daughters were moved to Rivesaltes María and her baby were interned in the improvised nursery in Block J while her older daughters were left alone in Block K Carmen’s daughter Brigitte Twomey recounts her mother’s memory of that time: “Carmen and Mercedes could only talk to their mother through a wire fence There was no adult supervision and the children were left to fend for themselves It was sweltering hot in summer and freezing in winter “There were rats and lice; latrines without doors; thin mattresses made of straw always damp; not enough blankets The ground was very rocky and hard to walk on for kids without shoes “My mother and aunt didn’t have any shoes and only very few clothes Kids were left to themselves with nothing to do all day what stayed with her mother most forcefully was the memory of hunger: the French people did not have enough food for themselves; refugees had even less and always came last When my mother was nine and living in one of the camps she would go out at night to steal fruit from local orchards “One farmer chased her and shot at her with his rifle When I asked her if she had been very scared Mary Elmes in her flat in Perpignan.Brigitte’s mother also related stories of seeing the bodies of the many who died of malnutrition and other diseases in the camp She and Mercedes would visit the dead and pinch their toes: they believed that could bring them back to life When both sisters contracted scabies they were sent to the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Perpignan They have memories of mould on the hospital walls and having to scrounge in the bins for food They also spoke about the terrible pain of having their scabs buffed with hard brushes as part of the treatment the sisters were sent back to the camp at Rivesaltes and were moved to the infirmary has a note of their arrival later that month Their transfer to the home would have been overseen by Mary Elmes although it was her colleague Friedel Bohny-Reiter who drove them from the camp to the home on the coast Their six-month stay provided a blessed reprieve “My mother remembered the long walks along the water’s edge,” Brigitte says Many years later the thought of the big bowls of vegetable soup and thick crusty bread and the four o’clock snack of bread and chocolate brought a huge smile to her face neither sister spoke much of those painful times but the experience of being deprived of so much — food security, parental support — in their early years had a lasting effect Brigitte says her mother made sure that food was always available in their house the Quakers and other relief agencies were attempting to distribute scarce resources as widely as possible There were increasing tensions within the organisation about how aid should be allocated: to the needy French population or to the refugee ‘undesirables’ in the camps Howard Kershner said he was against asking the already overburdened government at Vichy to improve conditions in the camps he agreed to support Mary’s efforts to provide assistance to the camp refugees and gave her permission to go “full speed ahead” to do everything within her power His attitude was a source of disquiet among volunteers Mary’s colleague Helga Holbek had furious exchanges with him on the subject of food accused Kershner of making ridiculous general statements to the effect that “many children in the camps are better fed than lots of children outside” He said that Kershner was interested in French children only because it might bring him positive publicity Parker in SpainMary wasn’t prepared to mince her words either When Noel Field of the Unitarian Committee singled out Rivesaltes as ‘the sore spot’ after a week-long tour of the camps She didn’t accept his charge that the internees were practically on a starvation diet An incident described by Marjorie McClelland opens another window on what was happening in the south of France in late 1941 and early 1942 By then many of the Spanish refugees had been contracted to work in France; others had joined the French army In a letter to Margaret Jones at the Quaker headquarters in Philadelphia Marjorie described meeting a convoy of about 20 Spaniards as they were being repatriated to Spain They begged a gendarme to call at the Quakers’ office in Toulouse as they had heard there was a chance they might get something to eat The gendarme called at the office and was told to bring the group of men immediately Marjorie was struck by the desperation of the group of wan men who ate what they were given in silence She said their eyes lit up when plates of steaming beans were put in front of them; for many it was the first real food they had seen in months the Quakers had been able to provide a little oasis between two lost existences: the miserable camp they had left and the uncertain future that awaited them when they returned to Spain The Spanish refugees were repatriated to Franco’s Spain The Quakers were not able to say what became of them A Time to Risk All: The Mary Elmes’s story From as little as €1 a week with our digital introductory offer Already a subscriber? Sign in more courts articles There is a significant opportunity for the State right now to ensure justice for Grace as the new National Disability Strategy is in the final stages of its completion Every disabled child and adult who is at risk of abuse or neglect should have access to an advocate UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE IRISH EXAMINER FOR TEAMS AND ORGANISATIONSFIND OUT MORE money and jobs from Munster and beyond by our expert team of business writers In the Bunch March 25, 2018, 8:28 am By In the Bunch ProTouch’s Reynard Butler won the 98km feature road race that formed part of the Emperors Palace Classic event in Johannesburg today ProTouch’s Reynard Butler seen here during this month’s Bestmed Tour of Good Hope won the Emperors Palace Classic road race today He outsprinted Ryan Harris and Clint Hendricks, who finished in second and third respectively. 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See examples Copyright © 2010 - 2025 · Developed and managed by Full Stop Communications · Privacy Policy March 11, 2018, 8:32 am By In the Bunch Demacon’s Kim le Court won the 40th edition of the Cape Town Cycle Tour in the Western Cape today Demacon’s Kim le Court won the Cape Town Cycle Tour today Le Court, who won last year’s Emperors Palace Classic, took the bunch sprint ahead of Namibia’s Vera Adrian and track star Maroesjka Matthee Seven-time champion Anriette Schoeman finished in fourth place, with Kelsey van Schoor in fifth This is the one race that everyone wants to win I’ve had a year of podiums and it’s great to finally stand on the top step,” said Le Court Le Court’s teammate Lynette Burger was in the break from the start and according to the new Cape Town Cycle Tour champion “The other teams and riders worked hard to bring that break back and then from there the sprint played out almost exactly as we had planned in our team meeting the night before.” “I’m so happy and I think we showed that we deserved to have our own race,” said Le Court Read more here February 25, 2018, 8:47 am By In the Bunch BCX’s Clint Hendricks won the 106km featured Herald Cycle Tour Road Race which started and finished at Pollok Beach Hendricks beat teammate Steven van Heerden on the line in 2:35:58 Maroesjka Matthee won the women’s race in 3:12:51, edging Anriette Schoeman into second. Kelsey van Schoor rounded out the podium Six-time winner BCX’s Nolan Hoffman pictured here during the Herald Cycle Tour Road Race in Port Elizabeth, which was won by teammate Clint Hendricks a break of six riders sprinted to the first hotspot The field began breaking on the early climbs of the race when six riders got ahead and created just over a minute gap They were later joined by five more riders in front BCX’s David Maree won the King of the Mountains challenge on the Maitland climb 60km into the race Two BCX riders – Van Heerden and Hendricks – went 30 seconds clear from the bunch with 30km left The pair extending their lead to 48 seconds with 20km left With 10km to go, six-time winner Nolan Hoffman headed towards the front but Van Heerden and Hendricks maintained their lead Archie Zakhe and Ashleigh Mayhead each won the 55km race respectively