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1. Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 46342
Date:
Circa 1939 - 1944
…Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.…
2. Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 46339
Date:
1939 - 1944
…Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.…
3. Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 46340
Date:
Circa 1939 - 1944
…Jewish prisoners at the Rivesaltes internment camp in southern France hold an outdoor prayer service.…
4. Simone Weil Lipman papers
1990.184.84 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1990.184.84
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… Rivesaltes. When Rivesaltes closed at the end of 1942, she began working at the Poulouzat children’s home near Limoges. In 1943 she moved to Châteauroux…
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 … materials and photographs documenting Lipman’s work rescuing Jewish children with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Rivesaltes, Poulouzat, and…
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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
… the camp, her father was accused of being involved and sent to prison in Pau. He was released in March 1941 and the family was sent to Rivesaltes camp…
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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. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales
Document | Accession Number: 2002.286 | RG Number: RG-43.036M
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1976
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence…
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 …, later military camp in Rivesaltes, organization: reports, correspondence. 26 W 18 Political deportees, investigations, aid to families, reception…
7. Hans Salomon papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0166 | RG Number: RG-10.170
Date:
1941-1956
…Contains three certificates relating to Hans Salomon's imprisonment in Gurs and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France, and a safe travel pass with…
8. Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection
2012.219.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2012.219.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children…
9. Hedy Epstein papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0117 | RG Number: RG-10.145
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1956
bulk: 1939-1947
… she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the…
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 … information on the well being of family members in Les Milles, Gurs, and Rivesaltes concentration camps in France; various documents collected by Hedy Epstein…
10. Weil family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.415.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1981
… arrested in Mannheim and sent to the Gurs concentration camp in France, and transferred to the Rivesaltes internment camp by 1941. On 11 August 1942 they…
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 … Mannheim, Germany during the Holocaust. Included is wartime correspondence from Max, Elfriede, Arno, and Ilse Weil in the Rivesaltes internment camp to…
11. Goldlust family papers
2002.471.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2002.471.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1997
bulk: 1939-1947
… they were transferred to the Rivesaltes internment camp. Leo and Paula were released from Rivesaltes through the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE). Leo…
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 … Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in…
12. Simon Fuks collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0131 | RG Number: RG-02.147
Date:
1941-1993
…; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escape to Switzerland. The…
13. Edith Cord collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.170.1
Date:
1939-1945
… letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent…
14. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… Mannheim. In 1940 he was deported to the internment camp Gurs; in 1941 to the internment camp Rivesaltes. In October 1941 Bigler escaped to the Château de…
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 … Mannheim; 1940 Deportation ins Internierungslager Gurs; 1941 Internierungslager Rivesaltes; Oktober 1941 Flucht ins Château de Chaumont in Nordwestfrankreich…
15. Ruth Salmon Seltzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2007.421
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2006
… of the war in the Rivesaltes and Gurs concentration camps, and emigrated to the United States after the war. The collection includes wartime paperwork…
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 … Rivesaltes and Gurs concentration camps, and emigrated to the United States after the war. The collection includes wartime paperwork, identity cards, and…
16. Lakhovitzky family collection
2012.416.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2012.416.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1995
bulk: 1902-1942
…). Beginning in December 1940, the family was interned in a series of camps, first at Camp d’Adge in southern France, and then Rivesaltes, where Natan was able…
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 …). Beginning in December 1940, the family was interned in a series of camps, first at Camp d’Adge in southern France, and then Rivesaltes, where Natan was able…
17. Bloch family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.77.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945 June 11
…'t know them at all, they received food packages and letters from them. In March 1941, the Billigheimer family was transferred to the Rivesaltes internment…
18. Kahn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.613.2
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1979
bulk: 1939-1947
… deported to internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. In 1942, Marga was hidden in several locations including Chateau du…
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 … Elfriede Kahn and her sister Marga Kahn in Sulzburg, Germany and internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. Also included is…
19. Beatrice Pappenheimer papers
1990.153 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.153
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-1990
… deported to Gurs and later transferred to Rivesaltes. Through the Œuvre de secours aux enfants, Beate and Suse were placed in convents and group homes in…
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 … after her father was forced out of his textile business in 1936. In 1939, the Stern family were deported to Gurs and later transferred to Rivesaltes…
20. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… (OSE). He was in the Chabannes children's home in Creuse from November 1939-May 1941. He was then transferred to Montintin, then to Rivesaltes where he…