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1. Lakhovitzky family collection
2012.416.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2012.416.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1995
bulk: 1902-1942
… Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 June 1927, and immigrated to France the following year, arriving in Strasbourg in October 1928, where Natan found employment in a hat…
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 … (bulk, 1902-1942) Accession number: 2012.416.1 Creator: Lakhovitzky family (Strasbourg; France) Extent: 4 folders, 1 oversize folder Repository: United…
2. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
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 … Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport…
3. 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion poster owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.3
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 15
use: 1985
Artwork Title:
Anniversary Po'alei Zion
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
4. Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc note
2003.413.92 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.92
Date:
issue: 1945 June 15-1946 July
…Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc note…
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5. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer
1992.164.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.164.1 b
Date:
received: 1945 April
… Mildred (later Borgerson, 1921-?), as well as a younger sister, Estelle (later Rosenberg, 1928-2006). While Britain and France declared war on Germany in…
6. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Philip D. Vock (b. Philippe David Vovk 1929-2006) was born in Paris, France to Marguerite Vovk (née Karyo, later Vock) and had a sister, Dora Esther…
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 … material, a journal, and photographs relating to Philip Vock’s wartime experiences hiding in France and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
7. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners in ghettos and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also…
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 … and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also includes scrip from the Łódź ghetto and the camps at…
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8. Morton N. Cohen collection
1990.297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.297
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-1945
… well as a typed manuscript of the history of the 95th Infantry Division. The photographs reveal scenes from the Division’s travel throughout France…
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 …’s travel throughout France, Germany, and Holland. Of particular note are photographs of the arrest of Franz Von Papen, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany…
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9. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… May 1940, Sophie heard that the population from northern France was leaving in a panic because the Germans had broken through the Maginot Line, which…
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 … Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie…
10. David Zalc collection
2014.158.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.158.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
…Contains documents issued to David Zalc [donor’s father], including a 1942 document issued by “Asurances Sociales” to David Zalc in Trets, France…
11. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
12. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
13. Charles Paul Kogel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.79.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1985
… France in 1942 to perform forced labor. His wife and daughter were deported in September 1942 or 1943 vie Mechelen and perished. In January 1944 Kogel was…
14. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence
2016.283.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… 773rd in France and Germany, including heavy fighting in the region of the Moselle and Saar Rivers, where he participated in the capture of a German…
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 … Illinois, describe various experiences, including the first post-liberation Jewish New Year’s celebration at a synagogue in Nancy, France, in September 1944…
15. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow…
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 … gare de Lyon"; and his 58-page typed memoir with computer illustrations entitled “Hidden: The Jeruchim Family Saga in France and Under the Nazi…
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16. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
17. Claude Zaidenband papers
2014.239.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2014.239.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
… home with their children, and the family were conservative Jews. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940, and the family escaped to Grépiac, France, a small…
18. William A. Davis papers
2000.244 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.244
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1946
… President Roosevelt’s executive order. He arrived in London in October 1944, was attached to the British 21st Army Group, and worked in France, Belgium, the…
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 …, and reports related to Davis’ work with the United States of America Typhus Commission in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark; an…
19. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
2018.565.3 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
… both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
20. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… II, he was a specialist in deactivating landmines with the 103rd Infantry Division. His unit helped in the liberation of France, and was among the…
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 … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…