Alice Weiller

Alice Anna Weiller (née Javal; 10 October 1869 – 7 September 1943) was a French art collector murdered at Auschwitz due to her Jewish heritage.

The Javal family, who had made their fortune in Alsace, were Jewish mill owners, merchants, and bankers who settled in Paris, where Alice was born.

She was the daughter of Louis Émile Javal (1839-1907), a well-known ophthalmologist and collector of Japanese art, and his wife Maria Anna Ellissen (1847-1933),[1] and was one of five children, all given a liberal education.

The witnesses at the wedding were Eugène Spuller, the poet Sully Prudhomme, and Adolphe Carnot, brother of the President of France.

[3][5] In 1932, Alice Weiller became vice-chairman of a committee of the Alsace-Lorraine Society promoting holiday camps for the working classes and subsequently was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.