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1. 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…
2. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
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… 1939, when they immigrated to Belgium. Following the German invasion and occupation of Belgium and France in 1940, Isidor was arrested, as was his…
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 …’s internment by the Germans in France, 1940-1941. Languages: English, German, Polish, Yiddish. Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
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3. 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…
4. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
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…Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow…
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 … gare de Lyon"; and his 58-page typed memoir with computer illustrations entitled “Hidden: The Jeruchim Family Saga in France and Under the Nazi…
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5. "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry"
2014.96.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.96.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2013
…Anny Bloch-Raymond is a French sociologist, born 24 May 1944, in Vialas (Cevenne), France, the daughter of Yvonne and Andre Bloch. Her family had…
6. Ernest Bergman philatelic and document collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.194.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2012
… Switzerland, France, and Germany during and after the Holocaust and World War II.…
7. George Rothman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.592.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-circa 2018
bulk: 1939-1948
…George Rothman was born Georges Bardenstein on 1 September 1933 in Strasbourg, France to Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein. His father Emmanuel…
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 … Bardenstein) and his parents Emmanuel and Esfira Bardenstein in Bordeaux and Paris, France, including Emmanuel’s enlistment in the French Army, George…
8. "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…
9. 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…
10. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
…. Ruth was separated from her mother and spent time in the Montmorency OSE (Œuvre de secours aux enfants) home in France. In 1942 she arrived in the United…
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 … the Montmorency OSE home in France prior to being sent on a 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in…
11. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.202.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Annette Drechsler was born on June 20, 1933 in Paris, France. In 1941, her father was arrested and taken to Drancy; he was deported to Auschwitz in…
12. 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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13. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille
Document | Accession Number: 2013.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1995-9005
… for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those…
14. Vakar family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-2013
… known as “Gertruda”) Vakar, Russian emigres who had settled in France after the Russian Revolution. Nicholas was employed as a journalist for Russian…
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 … the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them…
15. de Boton family papers
2013.103.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2013.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-2012
bulk: 1932-1947
… 1918. Yves studied medicine in Montpellier and Paris, France, eventually earning his degree. He also became a French citizen in 1931. The same year, he…
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 …: 2013.103.1 Creator: de Boton family (Paris :France) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
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16. 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…
17. Felice Zimmern Stokes memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2013.36.1
Date:
inclusive: 2012
…'s deportation to France to Camp de Gurs and being taken to the "La Pouponniere" OSE nursery in Limoges and from there, into hiding with the Patoux family on their…
18. Looking Back, But Not in Anger
Document | Accession Number: 2015.194.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2013-2013
Subtitle:
The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth
…France. Army. Foreign Legion…
19. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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… 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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 … deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of American Friends Service Committee with Jewish refugees in France. Languages: French, English…
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20. "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.180.1
Date:
inclusive: 2012-2012
… Romania, leaving his wife and daughters, to avoid capture. From Romania, he made his way to France and joined the Free Polish Army, spending the war as a…