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1. Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.562.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1987
… International Red Cross that allowed him to travel to Paris, France. In early September 1946, Jehuda arrived in Henonville, France, 50km from Paris, where he…
2. Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.251.1 | RG Number: RG-43.176
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1949
Alternate Title:
Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police
… noirs of war crimes perpetrated on mainland France and in North Africa). The SRCGE was officially formed by decree on December 6, 1944, composed of a…
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 … in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by…
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 … de Clément Arnaud, Emilie Charrier, Marie Dion, Marine Garnier et Gérald Monpas 1 édition électronique Archives nationales (France) Pierrefitte-sur…
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:
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…
4. 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 Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…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 Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
5. Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.320.1 | RG Number: RG-67.065M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Alternate Title:
Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
…Kehillat Haharedim (France)…
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 … Rachel S. Harrison in April 2018. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Creator: Kehillat Haharedim (France) Title: Records of the Kehillat…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. Julius Goldstein papers
1990.244.29 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 350
Document | Accession Number: 1990.244.29
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1942-1984
…, France, and Germany from 1942-1946 and visited Dachau two days after its liberation.…
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 …, photographs, printed materials, and a scrapbook documenting Goldstein’s military service with the 64th Fighter Wing in Italy, France, and Germany during World…
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12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Records relating to treatment of Jews by Italian and German nationals during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0013 | RG Number: RG-40.014
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
…, Sweden, France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.…
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 … Jews by Italian and German nationals during the Holocaust, 1941- 1946. 2 Balkans, Greece, Italy, Sweden, France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the…
16. 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…
17. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.22.1 | RG Number: RG-43.162
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1970
… of Jewish communities in Paris; he was also a lecturer in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland…
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 … Contemporaine), France. The http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org 2…
18. 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…
19. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
… disembarked in France in June 1939. Joseph, Martha, and Ilse were sent to Mirebeau, France. Walter, Herbert, and Ruth were placed in Villa Helvetia an Oeuvre de…
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 … Karliner family in Germany before World War II, aboard the MS St. Louis, in France while in hiding at Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) homes, and during…
20. 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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21. 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
… the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes wartime correspondence from family members who remained in Poland and perished…
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 … United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes…
26. 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…
27. 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…
28. Jack (Isaac) Groner collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.231.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1946
…-Birkenau. Includes a passport issued to Jacques Isaac Groner on March 8, 1946; Jack, his parents and siblings survived in hiding in France.…
29. John Henry Weidner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.619.1 | RG Number: RG-67.063M
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2010
…John Henry Weidner (1912-1994) was born John Hendrik Weidner in Brussels on 22 October 1912, the son of Dutch parents who lived in Belgium and France…
30. 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…
31. 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…
32. 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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33. 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…
34. 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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35. 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…
36. 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…
37. 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…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. Selected records from the Dr. Boris Tschlénoff collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.368 | RG Number: RG-43.085M
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1951
…France…
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 … activities in Europe, followed by an OSE France file, organized chronologically. 5. The North African missions. 6. The Joint ORT‐OSE Committee (created…
41. 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…
42. La Villa Mariana OSE home photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.272
Date:
1939-1953
…Consists of photographs taken of the OSE home at Boulouris, La Feuille, France, which was moved to St. Raphaël and named "La Villa Mariana" in 1941…
43. Berthe Pesses Cygelfarb photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2004.179
Date:
bulk: circa 1942-1946
…France…
44. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Document | Accession Number: 2003.96 | RG Number: RG-66.002M
Date:
interview: 1936-1952
…Evian Conference (1938 : Evian-les-Bains, France)…
45. Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy
Document | Accession Number: 2012.281 | RG Number: RG-58.021
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
Alternate Title:
Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003)
… from deportation; research materials related to an unfinished book about the children of La Hille, France; as well contains photographs, reports, and…
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 …, secours aux enfants, a ses collaborateurs en France pour le secours aux enfants victimes de la guerre, Bern, 8.2.1943, TS, 2 S. - Auszüge aus Michel, Albin…
46. Camillo Adler papers
2009.403.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2009.403.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France…
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 … translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign…
47. Ruth Salmon Seltzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2007.421
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2006
… from Germany to France in 1939, and lived in the OSE home of La Guette, before being sent to the United States in 1941. Her mother and sisters spent part…
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 … related to the Holocaust experiences of Ruth Salmon Seltzer, originally of Lambsheim, Germany. Ruth was sent on a Kindertransport from Germany to France in…
48. Oscar Dulitzki photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2003.244.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1935-circa 1949
…Oscar Dulitzski (1926-2006) was born Oscar Doulitchy on 1 October 1926 in Paris, France to Adolph and Perla Edelstein Doulitchy. In September 1939…
49. Fred Weissmann collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.130
Date:
1942-1946
…Contains ten photographs of Fred Weissmann and other children under the care of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) organization in France.…
50. Selected records from the Fonds Maurice Moch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.364 | RG Number: RG-43.086M
Date:
1902-1979
bulk: 1939-1944
…Consistoire Central, Union des Communautes Juives de France…
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 … reels (16 mm); 49,938 digital images (JPEG) Provenance: Records from the Central Consistory, Union of Jewish Communities in France (CC). The…