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1. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Louis in 1939. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe, they disembarked in France. Vera and Ilse were sent to Villa Helvetia, an…
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 … Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United…
2. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… lived in Berlin. In 1938 Walter fled Germany for France with Edith Moser, his future wife. Edith Moser was born on March 26, 1907 in Wilmersdorf to Ernest…
3. 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:
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… 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…
4. Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.91 | RG Number: RG-68.112M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and…
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 … 0000001018 Holland Section Gerrit Schouten: personal documents of a Dutch forced laborer in France and Belgium Netherlands, The Schouten Gerrit France…
5. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… Chaumont in Northwest France with the help of the Oeuvre de secours Aux enfants juifs (OSE); in 1942 stayed in different places in France; in September 1942…
6. Selected Documents from the Monastery of the of Notre-Dame de Sion, Paris (Archives of the Fathers and Brothers)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.321.1 | RG Number: RG-43.181
Date:
inclusive: 1811-2006
bulk: 1930-1956
…Catholic Church--France--Paris.…
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 … Church--France--Paris. Priests--France. Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism. Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church. Jews--Conversion to Christianity--France…
7. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s
Document | Accession Number: 2018.92.1 | RG Number: RG-65.025
Date:
inclusive: before 1900-circa 1980
…Union générale des israélites de France…
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 … Belges Organismes allemands juifs -Transports d’enfants vers la Palestine 5 février 1940 Visas de transit pour la France Le comité essaye d’évacuer vers la…
8. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
Special Collection:
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…Lucien Dreyfus (1882-1943) was born in Westhouse, France (at the time, Westhausen, Germany) to Jonas and Rose (Levy) Dreyfus. His education included…
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 … south of France, his observations on the rise of anti- Semitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the…
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  • Series 1: Lucien Dreyfus collection 1903-1944
    • File 4: Diary, (Cahier A) October 1925-May 7, 1941
    • File 5: Diary, (Cahier B) May 8, 1941-June 14, 1942
    • File 6: Diary, (Cahier C) January 16, 1936-August 23, 1942
    • File 7: Diary, (Cahier D) August 24, 1942-November 13, 1942
    • File 8: Diary, (Cahier E?) November 18, 1942-February 15, 1943
    • File 9: Diary, (Cahier F?) February 21, 1943-June 30, 1943
    • File 10: Diary, (Cahier G) August 1, 1943-September 1943
9. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
…Jews--France--History--20th century.…
10. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
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… home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon, who was already living in the United…
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 …, Lotte, and Regine were forced from their home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon…
11. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
…, and her boyfriend Maurice Rabinowicz (nicknamed Mischa) fled the German invasion of France by car from Châteaubriant to Toulouse via Nantes, Libourne…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
12. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… 1938, and in November 1938 Leopold left Austria for Belgium. Charles and his mother fled to France in December 1938. They were arrested in Strasbourg…
13. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
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… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi- occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States…
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14. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
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…, France. Marcus, Dina, and Margot Blitz immigrated to the United States in November 1940. In 1941, the Zonligt family made their way through Spain and…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940…
15. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
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…’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon…
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 …, during the Second World War Sharp helped rescue Jews under the German occupation in Czechoslovakia and France. Both were beautiful young wives with high…
16. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
… she directed a children's colony "Le Lac" in Hameau-du-Lac near Sigean , France. On August 1, 1940 Ruth von Wild took over the management of the…
17. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
Special Collection:
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… Republic) to B. M. (Max) and Elizabeth Margosches. He emigrated from Czechoslovakia to France in 1938 and then to England in 1942, and worked in chemical…
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 …, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United…
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18. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
…Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris.…
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 …. Refugees, Jewish--Cuba. Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris. Fur trade. Diamond cutters. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Haifa (Israel) Antwerp (Belgium) Havana…
19. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
… internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles. With his family’s help, he immigrated to the United States in October 1942 and changed…
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 … returned to Europe and disembarked in Belgium. He was arrested as an enemy alien in 1940 and sent to internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs…