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1. Emil Neu postcards from Gurs concentration camp
1990.33 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.33 | RG Number: RG-04.062
Date:
creation: 1941 September 06-1941 September 14
…Emil Neu postcards from Gurs concentration camp…
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 …EMIL NEU POSTCARDS FROM GURS CONCENTRATION CAMP 1990.33 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
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2. Oral history interview with Naomi Gur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.0023.51 | RG Number: RG-50.244.0051
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interview with Naomi Gur…
3. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… Gurs. In 1941 they received their visas for the United States, were reunited in Marseilles, and sailed from Lisbon for New York that November. They…
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 … Milles, France. Alma and Ursula followed him to France to try to find him but were arrested in Paris and detained in the internment camp at Gurs. In…
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4. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
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… aliens. They were jailed in the nearby town of Bar-le-Duc and then transferred to Gurs in France. In June, they were given the choice to be repatriated to…
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 …, and photographs relating to Edmond, Friederike, Renée, and Edith Kann’s pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences in Saarbrücken, Germany, Gurs…
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5. 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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 … photographs relating to her family’s stay at the Gurs and Rivesaltes camps, and their eventual rescue by the Swiss Red Cross. These documents are primarily…
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6. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
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inclusive: 1931-1954
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 …, undated; and on ship 2 2 Camps, including Gurs and unidentified transit camp, 1940 and undated Writings 3 Diary, original 4 Diary, photocopy 5 Diary, typed…
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7. Ernest Hartog family papers
1998.108.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.108.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1949
… Ernest and his mother fled to Paris. Emil was transferred to the concentration camps at St. Cyprien and Gurs. Ernest and Paula moved to Lyon in 1941…
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 … camp at Gurs and his family’s efforts to arrange for his release through Father Alexandre Glasberg and other channels, and Paula Hartog’s brothers…
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8. Odenheimer family papers
2017.241.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 04
Document | Accession Number: 2017.241.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2003
… Julius were deported with other Jews from Baden to internment camps in southern France in October 1940. Isidor died in Gurs in November 1940. Marie was…
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 … died in Gurs in November 1940. Marie was released from Gurs and stayed in Marseilles until she boarded the SS Winnipeg bound for Martinique. The ship was…
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9. 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…
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10. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
… Committee (AFSC or Quakers), who provided them with food and water. The Weilheimers and others were then taken to Camp de Gurs. Conditions in the camp were…
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 …, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, and photographic materials documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and…
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11. 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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 … invaded in May 1940. He was arrested and sent to St. Cyprien and Gurs. In May 1941 he was transferred to Les Milles. After Elly and Peter learned about his…
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12. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
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inclusive: 1919-1995
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 ….5 Estival, I.L., approximately 1945-1988 1.6 Golub, Abraham, 1945-1951 1.7 Gur Arich, Yehudah, approximately 1945 1.8 Magnus, Erica, approximately 1945-1951 1…
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13. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
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 …. Postmarked March 27, 1940. 1 8 Camp Les Milles – Camp de Gurs, approximately 1939-1985 Envelope addressed to Mrs. Emma Del Moro in Italy. Sent by Josef…
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14. Julius Kühl collection
1988.003 Box 6 Folder 23 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.003 | RG Number: RG-27.001
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1982
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 … 1942 27.001*05*66 5.5 Illegible copies, including list from Gurs, circa 1944 27.001*05*67 5..6 Miscellaneous, Association Belge pour l’Emigration des…
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15. Oral history interview with Pierre Larribité
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.7 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0007
Date:
interview: 2000 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Larribité describes his personal and professional background; details of the Gurs concentration camp, including its construction, types of…
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 …, Pierre Larribité talks about witnessing the events in the camp of Gurs during the time of World War II. He was chosen for this interview due to the close…
16. Oral history interview with Arlette Dachary
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.5 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0005
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interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Arlette Dachary, former secretary to the head of “Ponts et Chaussées” (public works) in Gurs concentration camp, discusses her family background and…
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 …, Arlette Dachary, former secretary to the head of “Ponts et Chaussées” (public works) in Gurs, talks about life and the daily routine in the camp. She…
17. Harry J. Mayer papers
2002.52.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2002.52.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…. In 1940, Heinz and his parents were deported to Camp de Gurs in France. Several months later, Heinz and a few other children were taken to the village…
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 … Camp de Noe exists the name Max Mayer, but he was born 5.12.94 not as you wrote born 5.12.85. Mr. Mayer came out of Camp de Gurs on 28.2.40 to Camp de…
18. Oral history interview with Carmen Villalba
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.6 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0006
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… occupiers to Gurs concentration camp; her life in Gurs, including the duties of the inmates, separation of different groups of inmates, and conditions of the…
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 … Villalba, former Spanish prisoner at Gurs camp, talks about her political emigration from Spain to France in 1939. She comments on her deportation to several…
19. Oral history interview with Pierre Langla
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.8 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0008
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Langla describes his family background; his military service; his assignment as a guard in Gurs; requirements of the guards; the organization…
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 … Langla talks about his assignment as a guard at the camp of Gurs. He comments on his arrest [no reason given] and his later deportation to several camps…
20. Oral history interview with Herta Bregoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.799 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0799
Date:
interview: 1996 February 07
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s antisemitic legislation; her memories of Kristallnacht in 1938; her father and uncle's arrest; her and her family's deportation to Gurs, a concentration camp in…
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 …. I don't know what-- they were apparently not deported to Gurs like the rest of us were. And I don't know what actually happened to them in their old…