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You searched for: Subject France. Remove constraint Subject: France. Dates 2011-Present Remove constraint Dates: 2011-Present Personal Stories Memoirs Remove constraint Personal Stories: Memoirs Text All Remove constraint Text: All Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. Albert Garih testimonies
2011.330.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.330.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Albert Garih and his twin brother were born June 24, 1938, in Paris, France, to Benjamin and Claire (née Alfandari) Garih. Albert’s twin died in…
2. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution
Document | Accession Number: 2021.102.1
Date:
creation: 2020
… through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original…
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 … 1942) 32 Leaving France (September–October 1942) 35 Spain (October – November 1942) 40 Crossing the Atlantic (November – December 1942) 42 Arrival in…
3. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers
2004.248.1 Box 2 Folder 26 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1898-2013
bulk: 1940-1947
… 1934, Mrs. Fränkel and her sons moved to France. It was there that Herbert met Mariette Rothschild, and after marrying and having a son, Edward, they…
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 … by the events of the Holocaust. Includes documents about Yvonne Redgis (Rothschild) and her life in pre-war France, during the occupation of France, as…
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4. Looking Back, But Not in Anger
Document | Accession Number: 2015.194.1
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publication/distribution: 2013-2013
Subtitle:
The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth
…France. Army. Foreign Legion…
5. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
… had high blood pressure and they could not go. Arthur and Johanna were desperate to get 14 year old Heinz to safety and sent him to France on a…
6. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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Save Their Stories
… occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Ernst was arrested. Peter, Agnes, and Flora fled Belgium to France. After a brief internment in Gurs, Flora went to Toulouse…
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 …, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with…
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7. "Parcours"
Document | Accession Number: 2014.315.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2012
…Pierre Saragoussi was born in Paris on 24 November 1937, the second child of Bitty and Allegre (nee Yomtov) Saragoussi, who had immigrated to France…
8. 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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 … Otto's internment in several camps in southern France, Elly and Peter's survival in France during the war in Graulhet and Font-Romeu, and Adolf…
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9. John Rothschild memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2011.359.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, written by John J. Rothschild, originally of Zurich, Switzerland. In his memoir, Mr. Rothschild, who moved to France…
10. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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Save Their Stories
… 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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11. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"
2016.501.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2016.501.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2016
…, and finally in France. In 1918, he was captured near Verdun by the "Harlem Hell Fighters," an African-American regiment. Henry became a prisoner of war…