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Thursday, May 31, 2018

How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: Guy Benveniste (Camp 1936, 1937, 1938; Elms)

Guy Benveniste 1938 right with his mother
on Lac d'Annecy and aunt and cousins. 
I was born in Paris into a large immigrant family that had fiercely adopted French culture and language. My mother was born in New York and my father in Salonica. My parents spoke French, my father did not know English. My mother attempted to teach me some English, I even had an English nurse for a year or so. My numerous cousins, aunts and uncles, all spoke French. I managed to speak and understand a little English. In 1936, my mother's sister moved to Paris and enrolled her two children at The Elms.