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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. Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France
Document | Accession Number: 2017.21.1 | RG Number: RG-43.161
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1994
…Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France…
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 …-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France Dates: 1944-1994 Accession number: 2017.21.1 Record Group Number: RG-43.161 Creator…
4. 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…
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
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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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6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Herschkowitz family papers
1995.A.0581 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0581
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1994
bulk: 1940-1963
…. At the outset of war with France, Bezales joined the French army. At this same time, Rose and Brenda fled Paris and lived for several months near the…
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 … provide the necessary affidavits. At the outset of war with France, Bezales joined the French army. At this same time, Rose and Brenda fled Paris and…
10. 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…
11. Dr. Zilla Cahn collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.32
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
…Consists of research notes and reference material collected by Dr. Zilla Cahn regarding the role of intellectuals in post-war France. Dr. Cahn, who…
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 … France--History--1945- Research papers. CONTAINER LIST Box 1: Definitions Glossary of terms Biographies of philosophers Thesis origin Bibliography Notes…
12. Fonds Abadi (CMXCIV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.16.1 | RG Number: RG-43.156
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1998
…Odette Abadi (née Rosenstock) was a doctor and during the Spanish civil war cared for refugees who came into France. Odette practiced as a doctor in…
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 … Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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. 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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15. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki papers
2006.464.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2006.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2003
… grandmother, Settchen Schwarzschild, was sent to Gurs internment camp in France. The family was separated, as men were housed apart from the women and children…
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 …, the family was deported, and sent to Gurs internment camp in France. Richard was separated to a different section of the camp, where he led a youth…
16. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
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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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17. Pressel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2007.413
Date:
1930-1993
… originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in…
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 …, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in…
18. George Rothman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.592.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-circa 2018
bulk: 1939-1948
…George Rothman was born Georges Bardenstein on 1 September 1933 in Strasbourg, France to Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein. His father Emmanuel…
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 … Bardenstein) and his parents Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein in Bordeaux and Paris, France, including Emmanuel’s enlistment in the French Army, George…
19. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… Paris, France around 1956, and their children George and Helene spent some time in an orphanage. In 1953, an acquaintance of Tema's told her that she had…
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 … primarily relate to the post-war experiences of Tema, Lazarz, George, and Helene Ratafia in Poland and France. The collection includes biographical papers…
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20. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
…. Ruth was separated from her mother and spent time in the Montmorency OSE (Œuvre de secours aux enfants) home in France. In 1942 she arrived in the United…
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 … the Montmorency OSE home in France prior to being sent on a 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in…