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1. 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…
2. 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…
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:
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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…
4. 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:
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…. 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…
5. 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:
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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…
6. 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…
7. 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
Special Collection:
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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…
8. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
Special Collection:
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… mother left for France with Agnes’ stepmother, Flora Bornstein. They were briefly interned at Gurs, tried to escape to Spain, and ended up at Auch (Gers…
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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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9. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… Chaumont in Northwest France with the help of the Oeuvre de secours Aux enfants juifs (OSE); in 1942 stayed in different places in France; in September 1942…
10. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
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… home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon, who was already living in the United…
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 …, Lotte, and Regine were forced from their home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon…
11. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
Special Collection:
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… citizens. Israel heard of a French woman who took children across the border to France for a fee. A relative in Paris said that he would take Susi and Joseph…
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 …’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941…
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12. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
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…, France. Marcus, Dina, and Margot Blitz immigrated to the United States in November 1940. In 1941, the Zonligt family made their way through Spain and…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940…
13. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
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… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi- occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States…
14. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… Hilde escaped southward through Belgium into France, reaching southern France by late June. Initially the family stayed in various locations in the…
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 … recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister…
15. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… 1938, and in November 1938 Leopold left Austria for Belgium. Charles and his mother fled to France in December 1938. They were arrested in Strasbourg…
16. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
…Jews--France--History--20th century.…
17. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
18. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
…, and her boyfriend Maurice Rabinowicz (nicknamed Mischa) fled the German invasion of France by car from Châteaubriant to Toulouse via Nantes, Libourne…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
19. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
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… Zwartberg. They spent several months in the camp before escaping to Lyon, France and going into hiding. Bronia decided to send Gerda to Switzerland where she…
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 … Zwartberg. They spent several months in the camp before escaping to Lyon, France and going into hiding. Bronia decided to send Gerda to Switzerland where she…
20. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
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…’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon…
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 …, during the Second World War Sharp helped rescue Jews under the German occupation in Czechoslovakia and France. Both were beautiful young wives with high…