Nissim de Camondo

Nissim de Camondo (1892 – 1917) was a French military officer and a member of the prominent Camondo family.

Nissim and his sister Béatrice de Camondo in 1916

Named for his grandfather, he was the son of Moïse de Camondo, a wealthy Jewish banker and countess Irène Cahen d'Anvers. As the only son of two children, Nissim de Camondo was expected to take over the family business.

However, immediately upon the outbreak of World War I, he joined the French Army, then served as a pilot in the Aéronautique Militaire. Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo died in 1917 during aerial combat in Lorraine, and he was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris.

On his death in 1935, Moïse de Camondo bequeathed his Parisian mansion at 63, rue de Monceau (including its contents and a major collection of art) to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to be used to create the Musée Nissim de Camondo in his son's honor.[1]

During the German occupation of France during World War II, his sister, Béatrice, her husband Léon Reinach, and their two children, Fanny and Bertrand all died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. His mother Irène survived by escaping to a villa in the south of France.[2][3]

References
  1. "Nissim de Camondo". Les Arts Decoratifs. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  2. A Secret Paris Museum and an Aristocratic Family Decimated by the Holocaust
  3. The Tragedy of the De Camondo-Reinach Family Archived 2013-06-19 at Archive.today
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