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1. Abend and Getter families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.120.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1963
…, and both immigrated separately to France around 1925. They later married and lived together in Paris, France. Germany occupied France in June 1940, and…
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 … Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Languages: Yiddish, English, Polish Administrative Information Access…
2. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
…. Cyprien and Gurs. In May 1941 he was transferred to Les Milles. After Elly and Peter learned about his arrest and internment in France, they moved to…
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 … Otto's internment in several camps in southern France, Elly and Peter's survival in France during the war in Graulhet and Font-Romeu, and Adolf…
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3. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1920-1946
… designer in a factory that produced artillery fuses. Later, he convinced the owner to open another facility in France, and in 1939 Adam immigrated to France…
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 … correspondence related to Adolf Adam Zandel and Roma Kleczewska, as they attempted to immigrate to the United States. Adam worked as an engineer in France before…
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4. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… medicine in Hungary, he began to look for ways to emigrate. He found a position in Paris, France with Dr. Francois Moutier, and moved there in May 1939…
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 … found a position in Paris, France with Dr. Francois Moutier, and moved there in May 1939. Through assistance with his family, he was able to secure an…
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5. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files
Document | Accession Number: 2002.296
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1963
bulk: 1938-1958
… Quaker relief operations in Europe were in southern France, in the unoccupied area controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government. Since 1939, a…
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 … in southern France, in the unoccupied area controlled by the collaborationist Vichy government. Since 1939, a multinational group of Quakers had…
6. André Waksman collection
2017.476.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.476.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2009
bulk: 2007-2009
…André Waksman was born on 12 June 1943 in Elne France to Jacob (b. 1910 in Kalisz, Poland) and Suzanne Waksman (née Doktorcyck, b. 1911 in Pabianice…
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 … including their flight France to Italy and as refugees with their son André at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York from 1944-1946. Included are identification…
7. Annette Fry papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.68.178
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1968
… Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe.…
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 … correspondence documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around…
8. Annette Krygier papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.157.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1949
…, France. Albert was arrested in Paris on 14 May 1941 and interned at Pithiviers concentration camp after he presented himself to a French Gendarme. At…
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 … “Mademoiselle Groner Chana” (donor); dated June 30, 1942; Paris, France; in French Identity Card: “Carte d’Identité”; issued to “Alice Granier” (donor’s false…
9. Arditti family photographs
2014.390.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.390.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1955
… sister Rebecca ("Betty") was born circa 1915. After World War I and the founding of the modern Turkish state, the Arditti family moved to France and sought…
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 … album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified…
10. Beatrice Pappenheimer papers
1990.153 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.153
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-1990
… France. With the help of relatives in England and the United States, the girls traveled to London in July 1945 and immigrated to the United States in…
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 … documenting the Stern family from Lauterbach and Karlsruhe, their internment in concentration camps in France during the Holocaust, their efforts to immigrate…
11. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… for a Cuban landing certificate for Julius. He sailed on the St. Louis, was returned to Europe, found temporary refuge in France, was arrested as an…
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 … Hilde behind. When the St. Louis was returned to Europe, Julius found temporary refuge in France until he was arrested as an enemy alien at the outbreak…
12. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
13. Böhm and Hanau families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2012
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…), Lina Hanau (later Lina Jung, b. 1893), Frieda Hanau (1897-1991), Albert Hanau, and Selma Hanau. Bertha lived in Mulhouse, France from 1937-1948 and later…
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 …), Frieda Hanau (1897-1991), Albert Hanau, and Selma Hanau. Bertha lived in Mulhouse, France from 1937-1948 and later lived in Saarbrücken, Germany. Her…
14. Camillo Adler papers
2009.403.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2009.403.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France…
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 … translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign…
15. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… interned in Gurs internment camp in France. Mina was able to correspond with her and send her an affadavit of suppot for a US visa. Klara managed to escape…
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 … terms Gurs (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews--Germany. Holocaust victims--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--France--Gurs…
16. Cecile Cerf papers
1991.70.3 front
Document | Accession Number: 1991.0070 | RG Number: RG-23.005
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1961
…Cecile Cerf (b. Cypora Salit, Jan. 12, 1916, Wilno, Poland) participated in resistance activities against the Germans during the occupation of France…
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 …, Wilno, Poland) participated in resistance activities against the Germans during the occupation of France in World War II. Restrictions on access: No…
17. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
… Cohen, 1883-1942). After the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the Elsoffers persuaded their daughters to leave Germany, and both ended up in France. Ruth…
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 … repeatedly in Belgium, France, and Spain, prior to his release in 1943 and immigration first to Palestine, and then the United States. Included is extensive…
18. 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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19. Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0082
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1986
… offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
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 … offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
20. Daisy Herrmann Kummer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.333.1
Date:
inclusive: 1893-1963
bulk: 1930-1948
… France in spring 1939, where she found refuge at the children’s home at the Chateau de la Guette, a mansion owned by Edouard and Germaine de Rothschild…
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 …, Daisy’s years as a refugee in France, and the family’s immigration to the United States. Documents include birth, marriage, residence, baptism…