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1. Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs
Object | Accession Number: 2013.478.3 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1940 August
manufacture: after 1929-before 1936
…Voigtlander Bessa camera and case used by a German Jewish family while imprisoned in Gurs…
2. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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
Date:
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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8. 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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9. 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…
10. Loewenstein family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.386.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1946
…. The family was eventually sent to Gurs, where Armand and Claude were separated by Henriette and Fernande. In December, Armand’s sister and brother-in…
11. Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.94.1 | RG Number: RG-58.048
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2011
Alternate Title:
Hugo Schriesheimer papers
…, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment…
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 … Umsiedlung in "Judenhäuser" in Konstanz, 22.10.1940 Deportation mit 6500 weiteren badischen und saarpfälzischen Juden nach Gurs, 1942 Flucht in die Schweiz als…
12. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers
1993.A.0005 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-10.079
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1947
bulk: 1938-1947
…, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
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 …, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
13. Max Vielgut papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.166.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2010
… Germans in 1940, and was later transferred to Saint-Cyprien camp in France. In November, he and the other prisoners were transferred to Gurs. In early…
14. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.589.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1948
… November 1940 he was transferred to Gurs. He was released around March 1941 and sailed to Cuba by September 1941. While in Cuba Hermann joined the British…
15. Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.488.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-circa 1940
… transferred to a new camp at Gurs in southwestern France. Tonia was able to visit him in June 1939, and introduced him to Vera. Although Tonia never saw Sioma…
16. Gorodiscas family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.419.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1961
… they found a room and stayed until the end of the war. In 1942, Bencelis was arrested and sent to Gurs, where he spent a year. In April 1943, he was…
17. Schwarzhaupt family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.277.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1945
… be declared "judenrein"-- free of Jews. They were initially shipped to Gurs. From there, they were transferred to the so-called "Hospital Camp" of…
18. Otto Papernik family papers
2013.204.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2013.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1970
bulk: 1930-1951
… settled in Sosua. Otto's brother, Julius, who had migrated to Belgium in 1940, was captured by the Germans and interned in Gurs, in France, as was his…
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 … Papernik's mother, Karoline, including travel documents and her death certificate, showing that she died at Gurs in 1940. Languages: German, English…
19. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
… Europe, were arrested and placed in Les Milles and Gurs concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they both were killed.…
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 … States, his parents, who remained behind in Europe, were arrested and placed in Les Milles and Gurs concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz in…
20. Liebermensch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.223
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1946
… and Richard's parents had perished. On October 22, 1940, Samuel was deported from Baden, Germany, to Gurs internment camp in France. On February 28…