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1. 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
…The collection relates to the situation of the Jews in France during German occupation. The collection pertains number of subjects including: anti…
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 … numbered from 1 through 85. The collection was received from various sources and donors and pertains primarily to the situation of Jews in France during…
2. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… several books in Yiddish, translated into French, concerning Jewish foreigners. Le billet vert refers to the green slip sent to notify non-French Jews that…
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 … vert refers to the green slip sent to notify non-French Jews that they were to report to the local police station. This was the first step in their…
3. Simon Fuks collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0131 | RG Number: RG-02.147
Date:
1941-1993
… subsequent release by the Germans; how he and other rabbis resisted the Nazis and gave assistance to those Jews that they could during May 1941 to May 1943…
4. Préfecture of Police in Paris records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.84 | RG Number: RG-43.030M
Date:
inclusive: 1852-1962
… property confiscated from Jews entering the internment camp. The collection also includes various occupation-related materials (Préfecture Archives: BA…
5. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
… Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other…
6. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.23.1 | RG Number: RG-43.163
Date:
inclusive: 1964-1994
… to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the…
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 … was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the Second World War began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the…
7. Report from Drancy concentration camp
2019.229.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.229.1
Date:
creation: 1941 November 06
…Three typewritten pages documenting the first stages of the Holocaust of the Jews of France and the state of affairs within the Drancy concentration…
8. Selected records from the French National Archives – Police Générale
Document | Accession Number: 2000.250 | RG Number: RG-43.016M
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1967
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin…
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 … in the Cabinet du Directeur General de la Sûreté Nationale, 1935-1944. Name lists of foreign Jews arrested and interned organized by country of…
9. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.19.1 | RG Number: RG-43.159
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1952
… include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of deportees, missing persons…
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 … the World War II. Records include correspondence with the General Union of Jews of France (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF), lists of…
10. Juliette Frisch Haymes papers
1991.156.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1991.156.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-1947
… Jews that was going to take place in the middle of July 1942. He was arrested on July 16, sent to Drancy, deported to Auschwitz on July 22, and perished…
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 … Jews that was going to take place in the middle of July 1942. He was arrested on July 16, sent to Drancy, deported to Auschwitz on July 22, and…
11. 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:
Save Their Stories
… of 700,000 Jews killed in Poland. A September 1943 entry describes letters received from persons in the Drancy concentration camp. The diary…
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 … from July 4, 1942 concerning Dreyfus' knowledge of 700,000 Jews killed in Poland. A September 1943 entry describes letters received from persons in 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
12. Dear Kurt
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0284 | RG Number: RG-02.195
…Jews, German--France.…
13. Ludwig and Hedwig Stein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.370.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1961
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
14. Selected records from collection DXXXIII, correspondence sent to Drancy
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0091 | RG Number: RG-43.074M
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1950
…Jews--France--Correspondence.…
15. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the…
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 … deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Languages: French, English…
16. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
… occupied Paris on June 14. That October, Nazis began persecuting Jews with the bombing of seven synagogues in Paris. While many Jews began leaving the city…
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 … (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp). Jews--France--Paris. Concentration camp inmates--Correspondence. Holocaust survivors--France--Paris. Paris…
17. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Czech Republic.…
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 … for two Jewish women at a time when the death penalty threatened anyone the Nazis caught helping Jews. Martha Sharp was born in 1905 in America, a free…
18. Georges Zeraia Ayache collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.151
Date:
manufacture: 2010
…Jews--Algeria--History--20th century.…
19. George Weissberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.175.1
Date:
1943-1963
…Jews--France--History--20th century.…
20. Hans Behr letters and postal cards
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-10.148
Date:
inclusive: 1943
…Jews, German--France.…