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1. 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
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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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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
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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. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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
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…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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7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Ernest Bergman philatelic and document collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.194.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2012
… Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.…
10. Gaston Kahn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2003
…Gaston Kahn was born on April 15, 1889, in Wingersheim, France, to Aron and Melanie Klein Kahn. He married Jeanne Meyer, born January 12, 1901, also…
11. Liliane S. Dockett papers
1999.A.0088.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0088.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1998
bulk: 1942
… month before the German invasion of France. Her maternal grandfather, David Hammer, was a furrier whose ability to supply the German army with vests…
12. de Boton family papers
2013.103.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2013.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-2012
bulk: 1932-1947
… 1918. Yves studied medicine in Montpellier and Paris, France, eventually earning his degree. He also became a French citizen in 1931. The same year, he…
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 …: 2013.103.1 Creator: de Boton family (Paris :France) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
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13. Olga Klein Astrachan papers
1996.A.0215.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0215.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1998
… narratives documenting Russian-born Olga Klein Astrachan and her family’s survival in France during the Holocaust. The papers also include postcards from her…
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 … France during the Holocaust. The papers also include postcards from her husband’s relatives confined to the Otwock ghetto and printed materials…
14. Izak and Marthe Weber papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2006
…Paris (France).…
15. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
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… intellectual caught in Vichy France, and helped secure visas for his family. The family was reunited in Lyon, traveled to Portugal in December 1941 via…
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 …; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the…
16. Huguette Frank papers
2016.349.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.349.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1997
bulk: 1945-1962
…Huguette Frank (née Salomon, 1925-2016) was born on 30 October 1925 in Paris, France to Annette (née Aron) and Jacques (d. 1940) Salomon. She had two…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp…
17. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers
2004.248.1 Box 2 Folder 26 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1898-2013
bulk: 1940-1947
… 1934, Mrs. Fränkel and her sons moved to France. It was there that Herbert met Mariette Rothschild, and after marrying and having a son, Edward, they…
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 … by the events of the Holocaust. Includes documents about Yvonne Redgis (Rothschild) and her life in pre-war France, during the occupation of France, as…
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18. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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… occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Ernst was arrested. Peter, Agnes, and Flora fled Belgium to France. After a brief internment in Gurs, Flora went to Toulouse…
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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…
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19. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
… were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château de la Hille, near the Spanish border…
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 … Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château…
20. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
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 … false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era…
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