… forced to leave. The family packed their 1938 Oldsmobile Sedan and drove through France. On the way, the family encountered British troops, when Michel…

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… through France, Spain, and Portugal before immigrating to the United States. The contents of the papers contain various documents of Michael and Manya…

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… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…

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… Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi- occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States…

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… refugee camp; fleeing from the camp to France when the war began; being transported to a camp in Orleans, France; being transferred to St. Cyprien camp and…

… parents following later; going with his sister to France; staying in safe houses en route to Lyon, France; hiding in Lyon from 1942 to 1945; his parents…

…; working in a refugee camp in Belgium and three detention camps in France, including Saint-Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles; and leaving Marseilles for the…

… to immigrate to the United States; moving to Aachen, Germany then Antwerp, Belgium in 1939; moving to France in 1940, returning to Brussels, Belgium…

… identification card; his arrest in December and then being sent to prison for nine months until he went to a forced labor camp in Septfonds, France; escaping from…

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… Belgium or France or back to Germany. So the choice was very simple. I said, "Well, I have an aunt in Paris. Maybe I can make my way to Paris." So they…

… France; arriving in Paris and being interned at the Brens and Rivesaltes camps; her escape from Rivesaltes; life in Paris with her mother; living in Lille…

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… leave for France. Late one night with minimal luggage, Fanny, her parents, uncle, aunt and cousins took a train to Paris. The train was filled with many…

… United States in 1937; her return to Belgium with her mother and brother in 1940; traveling to France with her family by train and on foot after the…

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… decided we cannot stay. Uh...It was the war. So we took some of our possessions and we took the train direction of France. The train was stopped at the...uh…

…; leaving the camp in May 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion of Belgium; going to France; being arrested by French police and imprisoned in an…

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… away when they started invading. And we walked to France. Did you have any warning of the Germans' likely invasion of Belgium? Oh, we continuously had…

… 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…

… invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in May 1940; his family's flight to France, Spain, and Portugal; difficulties with the American consulate in Lisbon; the…

… United Jewish Appeal; crossing the Belgium border into France by foot but not finding a much better living situation; discovering a castle in the French…

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… France and England. And uh I don't remember very well I was up on deck not near my parents. You know when you're sixteen you don't cling to your parents…

…; the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in 1940; their flight to France and return to Belgium after the invasion of France; their move to Brussels…

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… invaded Belgium, Samuel and his family attempted to flee again, this time to France. When news of the German invasion of France reached them, they returned…

… American visas in April 1940 but lacking the funds to travel and being trapped by the German invasion; his father being sent to a camp near Toulouse, France…

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… meantime, on May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded Belgium, Holland, and France. So that’s why we got caught up in that dilemma. NL: You were saying that you learned…

… their escape was an adventure; leaving France for Casablanca, Morocco in 1942; traveling to Cuba via Jamaica in 1942; living in Cuba from 1942 to 1948…

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… errors in spelling or accuracy. 358 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:40,600 Because when we left France, the same thing occurred. 359 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44…

…World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.…

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… France on the beach in... PB: In Normandy. PS: ...Normandy, was that... PB: Yeah, yes. We were there. We entered it there... PS: When you... PB: ...at Utah…

… 1938 then Paris, France in January 1939 and returning to Antwerp; being helped by a Jewish organization and staying with Jewish families; the Nazi…

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…, with the train, over the border into France. What date was this? This was in-- it was in January of 1939. See, we arrived in Antwerp in December, right…

…Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--France.…

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… 51 00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:26,690 lived in France most of the time. 52 00:02:26,690 --> 00:02:32,840 So outside of France and Belgium, the rest of the…

… the California and Arizona deserts, and spent time in Washington state; being sent with his unit in June 1944; landing in France and being part of the…