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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
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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2. Mme. Maurice Chazot papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.280
Date:
creation: 1940-1945
…Before leaving Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, for Nîmes, France, to study midwifery in 1942, Mme. Maurice Chazot replaced one of the au pair girls…
3. Selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.44 | RG Number: RG-43.152
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1960
… Refugees) related to rescue of Jewish refugees in France.…
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 … conférences de Madeleine Barot (Afrique, Allemagne, Angleterre, Etats-Unis, Canada, France, Suède, Pays-Bas et Suisse). 1952-1955 BDIC_FD_2149_5001_01 Listes d…
4. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.11 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0011
Date:
interview: 1992 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Paulette Fink discusses her involvement in the resistance movement in France during World War II and her sabotage activities; the French Jewish Scout…
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 … America, I don't think that they have any conception of what the resistance was. There was no such a thing. I mean, de Gaulle escaped from France. And he…
5. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.23.1 | RG Number: RG-43.163
Date:
inclusive: 1964-1994
… to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the…
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 … Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
6. Oral history interview with August Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0031
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…August Bohny-Reiter, born in 1919, discusses his training as a teacher which he completed in 1941 in Switzerland; his relocation to Pregny, France…
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 … summer Camp McShannet for 70 French refugee children in the Alsace Lorraine region. In the fall of 1941, he went to Le Chambon in south central France, and…
7. Rene and Raya Karschon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.330.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
… to Rene's imprisonment in Camp de Gurs in France and his subsequent escape to Switzerland (dated 1941-1942) and letters and postcards written to Raya…
8. Oral history interview with Denise Rivière Roques
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.26 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0027
Date:
interview: 2018 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Saint-Genis-Laval (France)…
9. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Paulette Fink (née Weill), born on October 22, 1911 in Mulhouse, France, discusses her parents, Jean Weill and Biorche Salomon; going with her mother…
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 …RG-50.156.0012 Summary Paulette Fink, born 10/22/11 to Jean Weil and Blanche Salomon in Millouse, France. Father a shoe manufacturer and mother a…
10. Oral history interview with Pierre Sauvage
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0202
Date:
interview: 1990 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Sauvage, born on March 25, 1944 near Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, describes his mother who was a Polish Jew and his father who was a French…
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 …? A: My name is Pierre Sauvage. Q: And where and when were you born? A: I was born on March 25, 1944, near Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France. Q: Uh, would…
11. Oral history interview with Maxime Friedenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.71 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0073
Date:
interview: 2018 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Roanne (Loire, France)…
12. 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…
13. Oral history interview with Magda Trocme
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.26 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0026
Date:
interview: 1984 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Christians--France.…
14. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0111
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… France but getting arrested and sent to prison; escaping to Cologne, where her mother managed to attain three visas by giving up some of her jewelry…
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 … we could be reunited again. And then finally he got a visa from Prague to...uh...France, and he moved from...to France, hoping that that he would have…
15. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had gone to the Caen prison camp in France; moving with his mother and sister to Paris, France but then traveling to Bordeaux because of the intense…
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 … into France later on. Q: Do you know much about your mother's family, what they did? A: No, not . . . Q: What kind of a town they lived in? A: They were…
16. Janine Bland photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.406.1
Date:
1942
…Contains two August 1942 photographs depict a group of Jewish children, including Janine Bland, hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France at the "Tante…
17. Oral history interview with Paulette Pradier Astier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.27 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0028
Date:
interview: 2018 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)…
18. Oral history interview with Hans Salomon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.795 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0795
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Farms--France.…
19. French wool from Le Chambon where many Jews found refuge
Object | Accession Number: 1989.280.2
…Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)…
20. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Loire
Document | Accession Number: 2011.11 | RG Number: RG-43.137M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…Jews--France--Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.…
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 … recensement : correspondance, instructions, listes. 1944‐1946 73 Ressortissantes étrangères venues en France avec un prisonnier français, surveillance…
21. Sabots
1989.280.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.280.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 1930-1940
…Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)…
22. Oral history interview with Johanne Eva Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.444.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0133
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in southern France in October 1940; being rescued by the Children's Aid Society in September 1941 and hiding in a children’s home in Le Chambon-sur…
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 … Auschwitz. Our food was minimal. France was short on food, it is true. The French felt called upon to steal much of the money that was allocated to feed us so…
23. Oral history interview with René Rivière
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.28 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0029
Date:
interview: 2018 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)…
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 …RG-50.498.0029 Summary René Rivière, born in 1930 in Saint-Etienne, France, discusses talks his family history; his four sisters, one brother, his…
24. Oral history interview with Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.73 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0073
Date:
interview: 1992 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… build a business there; moving with his mother to live with his grandmother; his father’s illegal move to Nice, France, where he remained until the end of…
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 … illegally entered France and remained in Nice until the end of the war. Max’s mother and father last met in Italy (on the father’s way to France) in August…
25. Oral history interview with Friedel Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0032
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…" (Swiss Child Help) during World War II; going to Rivesaltes, a transit camp in France, in 1941 and 1942 with the Swiss Red Cross; living in the camp…
26. Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.96.1 | RG Number: RG-58.050
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2016
Alternate Title:
August Bohny-Reiter papers
…. In the fall of 1941, he went to Le Chambon in south central France, and spent almost four years establishing homes for refugee children, and hiding…
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 … de Mission, Paris, 3.11.1944 - Légation de Suisse en France, Vichy 7 Gruppenbücher von Kolonien in Les Talloires und Le Chambon-sur- Lignon 1941 - 1944…
27. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…. In 1941 Jack went into hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France and later obtained false papers to enter Switzerland. Jack immigrated to the United…
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 … life in the United Kingdom, and efforts to bring her brother to the United States, along with Jack Lewin’s time hiding in France and immigration to the…
28. Oral history interview with Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.445.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0134
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to do forced labor harvesting fields in East Germany; being deported with his mother to the Gurs concentration camp in France; playing the cello as…
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 … to close up now. We are going to be deported tomorrow to France." And he went upstairs to notify the president of the Mannheim Jewish community. And so…
29. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
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… intellectual caught in Vichy France, and helped secure visas for his family. The family was reunited in Lyon, traveled to Portugal in December 1941 via…
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 …; Elizabeth’s diary describing her life in France from February to July 1940; a 1939 map of the Hautes-Pyrénées; photographs of Elizabeth, her brother, and the…
30. Magda Trocmé papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.238.4
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
… France who was studying at the Union Theological Seminary. They were married in 1926 and had two children, Nelly and Jean Pierre. André Trocmé was assigned…
31. Rudy Appel papers
1991.209.7 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.209.7
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… gymnasium. In May and June of 1940, Germany invaded and occupied the Low Countries of Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as well as France. Rudi was…
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 … German invasion of the Netherlands, Rudy joined his mother in Belgium. They crossed into France en route to Marseilles, where they planned to take a ship…
32. 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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 … were deported to France. French did not know who we were or whatever and simply sent us in the unoccupied zone of France. Or the Germans actually sent us…
33. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in 1935, Edmund decided the family needed to leave. He sold his business and they moved across the border into France. After Kristallnacht Edmond…
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 … concentration camp, and France. The collection includes documents and photographs relating to their imprisonment in Gurs, false identity cards, and postcards sent…
34. Presentation box for medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 b top
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
35. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
36. Honorary certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
37. Bifold document case for a certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
… conscripted for forced labor. In 1938, Juliette fled to Pau, about 31 miles over the border in France. In 1939, Juliette was recruited by Marguerite de Felice…
38. 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...
… gymnasium. In May and June of 1940, Germany invaded and occupied the Low Countries of Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as well as France. Rudi was…
39. Oral history interview with Johanna Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.72 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0072
Date:
interview: 1992 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… arriving at Oloron Sainte-Marie, France; being sent with her family to the Gurs camp; the tremendous cultural life at Gurs despite knee-deep mud and raging…
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 …. 144 00:07:08,910 --> 00:07:14,100 She survived in France and after the war, 145 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,120 went back to Germany to live in a Jewish…
40. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0002
Date:
interview: 1997 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.…
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 … together with little refugees from Belgium and France and we got to know each other because of the language. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
41. Permit issued by the Formations des Travailleurs Etrangers (the organization of foreign workers in France) to René Karschon authorizing his release from the Gurs internment camp for a period of three months to go to a reception center in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 24853
Date:
1942 September 14
…Permit issued by the Formations des Travailleurs Etrangers (the organization of foreign workers in France) to René Karschon authorizing his release…
42. Rene and Germaine Brunschwig pose on a balcony holding their two young daughters, Arlette and Silvie, on their laps.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66143
Date:
1940 April 19
… France and then Cannes, which was occupied by Italy. René, who had previously served in the French army, joined the Free French forces of General De Gaulle…
43. Rene and Germaine Brunschwig pose together on the balcony of a building in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66142
Date:
1939 - 1940
… France and then Cannes, which was occupied by Italy. René, who had previously served in the French army, joined the Free French forces of General De Gaulle…
44. Two Jewish refugees from Alsace pose for a family portrait shortly after the birth of their second daughter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66144
Date:
November 1939
… France and then Cannes, which was occupied by Italy. René, who had previously served in the French army, joined the Free French forces of General De Gaulle…
45. Claire Brunschwig-Metzger holds her newborn baby son Daniel in her arms outside a large building in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66140
Date:
September 1939 - October 1939
… France and then Cannes, which was occupied by Italy. René, who had previously served in the French army, joined the Free French forces of General De Gaulle…
46. Germaine Brunschwig holds her newborn daughter Sylvie in her arms while her older daughter Arlette sits on the side of the bed.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66141
Date:
November 1939
… France and then Cannes, which was occupied by Italy. René, who had previously served in the French army, joined the Free French forces of General De Gaulle…
47. Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Rose Appel (b. September 30, 1896 in Ludwigshafen) and her son Rudi Appel (b. May 5, 1928 in Ludwigshafen) by George Mandel-Mantello, First Secretary of the Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland and sent to their residence in Chambon sur Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85888
Date:
1944 March 14
…JEWS (FOREIGN BORN IN FRANCE)…
48. Le Plateau et l'accueil des juifs réfugiés : 1940-1945.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.F85 L436 1981
Published:
[Le Chambon-sur-Lignon?] : Société d'histoire de la montagne, [1981]
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…Documents (Société d'histoire de la montagne (France)) ; no 3.…
49. Les Résistances sur le plateau Vivarais-Lignon, 1938-1945 : témoins, témoignages et lieux de mémoires, les oubliés de l'histoire parlent / [organisé par la Société d'histoire de la montagne].
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Publication | Library Call Number: D802.F82 L4147 2005
Published:
Polignac : Roure, 2005
Availability
…Société d'histoire de la montagne (France)…
50. Hommage aux Justes de France = Hommage to the Righteous of France.
Publication | Library Call Number: DVD-1185
Published:
[United States] : [Barbara P. Barnett], [2013]
©2013
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…Hommage aux Justes de France = Hommage to the Righteous of France.…