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1. Oral history interview with Pierre Larribité
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.7 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0007
Date:
interview: 2000 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Larribité describes his personal and professional background; details of the Gurs concentration camp, including its construction, types of…
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 … the status of the camp during the war and the fate of the inmates after liberation; discusses the arrival of Jewish women from Austria and Germany in…
2. Oral history interview with Arlette Dachary
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.5 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0005
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Arlette Dachary, former secretary to the head of “Ponts et Chaussées” (public works) in Gurs concentration camp, discusses her family background and…
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 … origin, history of immigration and administrative tasks in the camp; comments on the duration of his stay and his fate after liberation; discusses her…
3. Oral history interview with Carmen Villalba
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.6 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0006
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… occupiers to Gurs concentration camp; her life in Gurs, including the duties of the inmates, separation of different groups of inmates, and conditions of the…
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 … the deportations; describes her stay in another camp around Blagnac; discusses the liberation of this camp; talks about her future husband’s status as a…
4. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.337 | RG Number: RG-67.044M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1954
bulk: 1939-1945
…-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps…
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 …. Folder 23 Report on Bedeau concentration camp in Algeria. January-March 1943. Folder 24 Situation in Drancy, 1943. Report of OSE on deported Jews who had…
5. Oral history interview with Pierre Langla
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.8 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0008
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and structure of the camp; living conditions of the prisoners; his injury near Verdun; his arrest during a stay in a military hospital in Nancy; his…
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 … Langla talks about his assignment as a guard at the camp of Gurs. He comments on his arrest [no reason given] and his later deportation to several camps…
6. Jeanne Rothschild collection
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0069
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
7. Oral history interview with Ruth Wertheimes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.42 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0042
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… destruction of the synagogue; being rounded up and sent with her mother and brother (age 13 at the time) to the concentration camp in Gurs, France in October…
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 … concentration camp which was called OSE, which stands for Oeuvres de secours d’enfants. You have heard of it? FW: No, but I understand. When you say an…
8. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… Buchenwald. Photographic materials include photographs of a liberated concentration camp (possibly Buchenwald), Julius Hermanns, and Sol and Henrietta Meyer…
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 ….16 Blaut, Arnold, 1945 2.17 Concentration camp at liberation, possibly Buchenwald, 1945 2.18 Gebrüder Hermanns storefronts, approximately 1930s 2.19 Hermanns…
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 … internment camp, Joseph, Ernest and George were finally released so that they could leave for Kenya. They were the first members of the Berg family to arrive…
9. Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.121 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0121
Date:
interview: 1985 June 03
interview: 1985 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation in August 1944; her post-war life at the Chambéry boarding school, with her cousins; her search for her parents and being an active member of…
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 … was three times in concentration camps with my parents, twice in Gurs, once in Rivesaltes. On each occasion, I can clearly see all or most of the other…
10. Oral history interview with Johanna Liebmann and Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0108 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0015
Date:
interview: 1998 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… memories from Kristallnacht; their deportation to Gurs, France; their daily life and the economic system of the camp; their release from Gurs to Le Chambon…
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 … unexpected question really, because I’d never thought of it. And I told her, “Your grandparents were killed in a concentration camp.” Now that was a little…
11. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
…. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were also incarcerated in German concentration camps and held unless they promised to leave Germany. Julius was among…
12. Oral history interview with Fred Jarvis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.132 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0530
Date:
interview: 2009 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … taken to a concentration camp called Gurs at the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, a range of mountains that separates France and Spain. They were…
13. View of the barracks in the Gurs internment camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 24845
Date:
1941 - 1942
…View of the barracks in the Gurs internment camp.…
14. Sketch of the Gurs internment camp drawn by German prisoner, Hella Bacmeister.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78377
Date:
Circa 1940 - 1944
… closed, Hella was sent back to Germany for forced labor and then taken to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in November 1943. After liberation Hella and…
15. Sketch of the Gurs internment camp drawn by German prisoner, Hella Bacmeister.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78375
Date:
1940 - 1944
… closed, Hella was sent back to Germany for forced labor and then taken to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in November 1943. After liberation Hella and…
16. Identification card photograph of Ruth Zarnicer taken in the Gurs internment camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99613
Date:
October 1940 - December 1941
…Identification card photograph of Ruth Zarnicer taken in the Gurs internment camp.…
17. Identification photo of René Karschon taken in the Gurs internment camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 24843
Date:
1941 November 03
…Identification photo of René Karschon taken in the Gurs internment camp.…
18. Group portrait of foreign workers assigned to the food supply department at the Gurs internment camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 24844
Date:
September 1941
…Group portrait of foreign workers assigned to the food supply department at the Gurs internment camp.…
19. Sketch of the Gurs internment camp drawn by German prisoner, Hella Bacmeister.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78383
Date:
Circa 1940 - 1944
… closed, Hella was sent back to Germany for forced labor and then taken to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in November 1943. After liberation Hella and…
20. Close-up portrait of Hella Bacmeister, a German prisoner in the Gurs internment camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 78391
Date:
Circa 1939 - 1940
… closed, Hella was sent back to Germany for forced labor and then taken to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in November 1943. After liberation Hella and…