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1. 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…
2. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
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…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
3. 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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4. 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…
5. 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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6. 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…
7. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he…
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 … (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via…
8. Marianne Karmel collection
1988.51.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.51.1 | RG Number: RG-10.271
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1945
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… Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne).…
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 … Grenier, and their daughter Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne). Languages: French Administrative Information…
9. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
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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…
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10. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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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…
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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
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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. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
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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…
13. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s
Document | Accession Number: 2018.92.1 | RG Number: RG-65.025
Date:
inclusive: before 1900-circa 1980
…Union générale des israélites de France…
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 … Belges Organismes allemands juifs -Transports d’enfants vers la Palestine 5 février 1940 Visas de transit pour la France Le comité essaye d’évacuer vers la…
14. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
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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…
15. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
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bulk: 1932-1948
…Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris.…
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 …. Refugees, Jewish--Cuba. Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris. Fur trade. Diamond cutters. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Haifa (Israel) Antwerp (Belgium) Havana…
16. 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
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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…
17. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
… internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles. With his family’s help, he immigrated to the United States in October 1942 and changed…
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 … returned to Europe and disembarked in Belgium. He was arrested as an enemy alien in 1940 and sent to internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs…
18. 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
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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…
19. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
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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. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
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… Republic) to B. M. (Max) and Elizabeth Margosches. He emigrated from Czechoslovakia to France in 1938 and then to England in 1942, and worked in chemical…
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 …, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United…
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