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1. Stanford J. Shaw collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1202
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
… Turkish Embassy, both in Paris, France. The documents that he copied were primarily case files and related documentation about Turkish Jewish individuals…
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 … Stanford J. Shaw collection consists of photocopied archival documents, which were concerned with the fates of Turkish Jews arrested in occupied France from…
2. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
3. Bifold document case for a certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
4. Hans Steinitz papers
1988.147.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.147.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French…
5. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… lived in Berlin. In 1938 Walter fled Germany for France with Edith Moser, his future wife. Edith Moser was born on March 26, 1907 in Wilmersdorf to Ernest…
6. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection
2017.192.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1944
…Anne-Gilberte was born on July 30, 1938 in Metz, France to Malka Tannebaum (b. May 5,1911, Przeworsk, Poland) and Charles Salomon Stemmer (b. April…
7. Institut d'étude des questions juives
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0098 | RG Number: RG-43.139M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
… of who was classified as a Jew, attempts to import “racial science” from Germany, creation of the journal "La question juive en France et dans le monde…
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 … Documentation Juive Contemporaine Mémorial de la Shoah 17, rue Geoffroy l’Asnier 75004 Paris FRANCE tel. +33‐(0)1 42 77 44 72 www…
8. Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.320.1 | RG Number: RG-67.065M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Alternate Title:
Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
…Kehillat Haharedim (France)…
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 … Rachel S. Harrison in April 2018. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Creator: Kehillat Haharedim (France) Title: Records of the Kehillat…
9. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… Antwerp. In May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family fled Antwerp for France with Edith’s uncle Max Scheiner and his family in his bakery…
10. Presentation box for medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 b top
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
11. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… landscapes were taken while Baur served throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly…
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 … throughout Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, and southern France. Some of the images directly correlate with the images found within the two…
12. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.19.1 | RG Number: RG-43.159
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1952
…Records of the Jewish Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the World War II. Records…
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 … Community of Vichy related to various activities of the Jewish community in France during and after the WWII, 1940-1952. Languages: French Administrative…
13. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
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 … Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport…
14. John Henry Weidner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.619.1 | RG Number: RG-67.063M
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2010
…John Henry Weidner (1912-1994) was born John Hendrik Weidner in Brussels on 22 October 1912, the son of Dutch parents who lived in Belgium and France…
15. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
16. Selected records from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Division Assistance Spéciale
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0167 | RG Number: RG-58.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1963
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…France.…
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 ….04 [Rapport du Secrétariat général des prisonniers de guerre, déportés et 03.01.1946 - 03.01.1946 01 -0839 DAS 1 réfugiés (France), établi par P. Weibel, sous…
17. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… II, he was a specialist in deactivating landmines with the 103rd Infantry Division. His unit helped in the liberation of France, and was among the…
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 … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…
18. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Louis in 1939. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe, they disembarked in France. Vera and Ilse were sent to Villa Helvetia, an…
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 … Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United…
19. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
20. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…