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You searched for: Subject France. Remove constraint Subject: France. Dates 1940 Remove constraint Dates: 1940 Dates 1945 Remove constraint Dates: 1945 Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. Mayer and Mané family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.347
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1992
… of Belgium, Heine was deported to St. Cyprien concentration camp in France and then to Camp des Milles and died during the Holocaust. Laura, Selma…
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 … Selma Bella Ruth Lili Gertrude 8/31/1899 2/28/1901 1904 1/5/1909 Argentina Israel France m. m. m. Selma Mayer Julius Strassburger Alfred Kahn (Fenny…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Leser family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.436.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1959
… while in France after the war; notebooks containing written poetry in Russian and Yiddish; correspondence received by family members and friends in Munich…
5. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
…Paris (France)…
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 … Regina Papierbuch, Paris, France, 1947. 35. Photograph of Franka Papierbuch, Lola Byron’s paternal aunt, Paris, France, May 1947. 36. Photograph of Zosia…
6. 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…
7. Maljean and Totman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.614.1
Date:
bulk: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
…, and his family prior to and during World War II in France and Austria.…
8. Benny Guinossar papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.270.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1948
… sons sent on a Kindertransport to France where her sister and brother-in-law, Esther and Paul Edelist, could care for them in Paris. The children…
9. 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…
10. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… landscapes were taken while Baur served throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly…
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 … throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly correlate with the images found within the two…
11. Hans Steinitz papers
1988.147.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.147.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
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…Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French…
12. 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:
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… 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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13. 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…
14. Max Vielgut papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.166.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2010
… Germans in 1940, and was later transferred to Saint-Cyprien camp in France. In November, he and the other prisoners were transferred to Gurs. In early…
15. Loschner and Klein families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.101.1
Date:
1939-1995
…Includes documents that illustrate the experiences of the Loschner and Klein families in Vienna and France during and after the war, including a…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Waffen-SS photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 1992.227
Date:
creation: 1933-1945
…Military life--German--France--1940-1950.…
19. 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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20. 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…