… 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…

…Renée Mayer-Astruc (née Zélia Renée Kohn) born in Paris, France in 1911, discusses her life in prewar France, her Belgian-born husband, her mother…

… 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…

…; fleeing with his wife and children to Paris, France, assuming Christian identities; traveling through southern France and reuniting with his family in Riom…

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… defensive war, if you lived in Belgium, or in France; it's not offensive wars. JF: What about your father? Was he... BM: No, my father was never, because he…

… March 31, 1939; his company setting up an office in Paris, France in July 1939; his wife and child living in Argenteuil, France and experiencing…

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… 25, 1939 - company wanted to build up Paris office wife and baby in London got visa, flew to France lived in Argenteuil - felt anti-semitism June 1940…

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

… tuberculosis and being hospitalized at age six until May 1940, when his father, an active political leftist, fled with his family to France; his father being…

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… political leftist, fled with his family to France. His father was drafted into the French Army, deserted and placed his son, renamed “Armand”, in a sanitarium…

…Joan Salter, born on February 15, 1940 in Brussels, Belgium, discusses her family; living in Paris, France; her father leaving Paris for Vichy France…

…, Belgium in the 1920s and 1930s; Germany’s invasion of Belgium on May 10, 1940; fleeing on a train from Brussels to a town in southwestern France, Saint…

… van to get to Prague; getting visas to Belgium; meeting her father in Brussels, Belgium in March 1939; going to Argenteuil, France; seeing planes and…

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… March 1939 - met father in Brussels, moved to England Husband’s firm moved to Paris, she returned to France, stayed in Argenteuil saw planes and shooting…

… was 15 years old, the Germans invaded Belgium. Albert, along with his two sisters and one brother, fled with his parents to France in order to escape…

…; 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…

…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…

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… been checked for spelling or accuracy. 10:00 Marcelle, Therese's mother, was born in 1896 in Godogne (ph.) France, which is a province. She was born on a…

… were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château de la Hille, near the Spanish border…

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… Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château…

…, who was an attorney with the German government; his father working from 1925 to 1931 in the German embassy in Nice, France; his mother, Lottie Epstein…

…; not foreseeing the German occupation; the increasing restrictions and chaos for Jews; trying to go to southern France with his sister, but getting…

… deportation to an internment camp in France; remaining with his mother and tracking down his father in the Pyrenees Mountains; living in the house of a French…

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… internment camps - not concentration camps but internment camps in southern France - St. Cyprien, Gurs, Rivesaltes and there were several others. Now at the…

…; 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…

…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…

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…. Ernst Vendig was arrested following the 1940 German invasion and interned in camps in France including St. Cyprien and Gurs. In 1941, Fred, Charlotte…