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1. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.19.1 | RG Number: RG-43.159
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1952
…Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records…
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 … Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the WWII, 1940-1952. Languages: French Administrative…
2. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1939, when they immigrated to Belgium. Following the German invasion and occupation of Belgium and France in 1940, Isidor was arrested, as was his…
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 …’s internment by the Germans in France, 1940-1941. Languages: English, German, Polish, Yiddish. Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
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3. Selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.44 | RG Number: RG-43.152
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1960
… Refugees) related to rescue of Jewish refugees in France.…
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 … conférences de Madeleine Barot (Afrique, Allemagne, Angleterre, Etats-Unis, Canada, France, Suède, Pays-Bas et Suisse). 1952-1955 BDIC_FD_2149_5001_01 Listes d…
4. Waffen-SS photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 1992.227
Date:
creation: 1933-1945
…Military life--German--France--1940-1950.…
5. 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…
6. Selected records from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Division Assistance Spéciale
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0167 | RG Number: RG-58.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1963
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…France.…
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 ….04 [Rapport du Secrétariat général des prisonniers de guerre, déportés et 03.01.1946 - 03.01.1946 01 -0839 DAS 1 réfugiés (France), établi par P. Weibel, sous…
7. 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…
8. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France. Prior to World War II, Julian worked as…
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 … and Margarete married on March 28, 1920 in Vienna. Their daughter Monique Goss (neé Epstein 1941- ) was born on April 29, 1941 in Toulouse, France…
9. Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0082
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1986
… offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
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 … offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
10. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.337 | RG Number: RG-67.044M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1954
bulk: 1939-1945
…Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)…
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 … YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH, 15 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011 GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTION ON FRANCE, HOLOCAUST PERIOD GUIDE TO…
11. Kaufman family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.422.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1988
… France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both…
12. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… listen to music, and her religious feelings would be genuine. Following her graduation from high school in 1926, she studied in France at Nancy University…
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 … immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee…
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. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… Antwerp. In May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family fled Antwerp for France with Edith’s uncle Max Scheiner and his family in his bakery…
15. Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.493.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1999
bulk: 1945-1946
…Paris (France)…
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 …. War brides—United States—Biography. Paris (France) Amsterdam (Netherlands) Marseilles (France) CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Photographs, 192‐1946…
16. 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…
17. 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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18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Markon family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1945
… and their son Alain during and after the Holocaust when the family left German occupied France for the United States. Some of these materials may be…