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1. 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
…Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)…
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 … YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH, 15 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011 GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTION ON FRANCE, HOLOCAUST PERIOD GUIDE TO…
2. Watercolor painting of a street scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.6
Date:
depiction: 1941 May-1942 November
Artwork Title:
Lunel-France
…Lunel-France…
3. Jewish family vacations in southern France
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1070 | Film ID: 4325
Film Title:
Untitled -- Meijer Bed -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1939
Duration:
00:13:44
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Jewish family vacations in southern France…
4. Dutch Jewish family vacations in France
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1069 | Film ID: 4324
Film Title:
Untitled -- Meijer Bed -- home movies
Date:
Event: 1939
Duration:
00:15:59
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Dutch Jewish family vacations in France…
5. Watercolor painting of a garden scene by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.5
Date:
depiction: 1944 March-1944 June
Artwork Title:
Spring 1944 Hiding in Soisy s/M France
…Spring 1944 Hiding in Soisy s/M France…
6. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
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 … false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era…
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7. Oral history interview with Pierre Berg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.91 | RG Number: RG-90.063.0091
Date:
interview: 2011 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Berg, born on September 26, 1924 in Nice, France, discusses his experiences during the Holocaust.…
8. Oral history interview with Georges Isserlis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.296.1 | RG Number: RG-50.737.0001
Date:
interview: 2012 March 29
interview: 2012 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2013. The interview was conducted by students of Middlebury College on March 29, 2012 in St. Cloud, France as…
9. Oral history interview with Myriam Blitz-Leiser
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0285
Date:
interview: 1994 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… border to Switzerland; escaping with her daughter to Nice, France but being caught there; hiding her daughter in a children's home in France; her…
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 …. As conditions worsened for Jews in Belgium, she left with her family and close friends and headed for Aix-les-Baines, France where she helped Jews…
10. Oral history interview with Rivka Freed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.40 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0040
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rivka Freed, born July 1, 1923 in Łódź, Poland, discusses moving to Paris, France in 1938; moving to Lyon, France with family in 1940; joining the…
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 …RG-50.120 #040 1 Tape Freed. Rivka 1.01.36.14 Born 1 July 1923 in Lodz Poland. 1938 came to France [Paris] with mother, brother and twin sister, to…
11. Oral history interview with Jacques Marburger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.8 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0008
Date:
interview: 1993 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area…
12. Oral history interview with Ruth Holston
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.316 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0316
Date:
interview: 1982 April 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France at 16 months old; her childhood; the Jewish community in pre-war Paris; fleeing to southern France just before the Nazi occupation of Paris; a non…
13. Oral history interview with Henri Broder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.7 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0007
Date:
interview: 1993 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area…
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 … the ‘maquis dans l’Armée juif’ and the ‘Brigade juif’, both working to help aid the resistance and Allied forces landing in France on D-Day; describes…
14. Oral history interview with Daniel Bessmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.29 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0029
Date:
interview: 1994 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area…
15. Oral history interview with Philip Vock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0442 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0433
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Philip Vock, born in 1929 in Paris, France, discusses his family background and childhood; the German invasion of France in 1940; the confiscation of…
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 …: Okay, my full name is Philip David Vock, V-o-c-k. Originally my name was V-o-v-k, when I lived in France and I changed my name to V-o-c-k when I became…
16. Oral history interview with Remond Heiman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.329 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0329
Date:
interview: 1998 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Raymond Hegman, born in Strasbourg, France in 1919, describes the shoe store that his family owned; how his family was traditional but not religious…
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 …Hegman, Raymond RG-50.120.0329 2 videotapes In Hebrew Abstract: Raymond Hegman was born in Strasbourg, France in 1919. His family lived above the…
17. Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.320.1 | RG Number: RG-67.065M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Alternate Title:
Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
…Kehillat Haharedim (France)…
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 … Rachel S. Harrison in April 2018. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Creator: Kehillat Haharedim (France) Title: Records of the Kehillat…
18. Oral history interview with George Tobias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.40 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0040
Date:
interview: 1978 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… child; his parents applying for visas to the United States in 1937; going to Besançon, France and the journey there; the anti-German feeling in France and…
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 … that I went to France and continued my education there. Q: Up to the time you were thrown out of the gymnasium in 1933, what was your relationship with…
19. Oral history interview with Emmanuel Racine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.122 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0122
Date:
interview: 1992 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emmanuel Rassin, born in Moscow, Russia to a bourgeois family, describes his memories of the Russian Revolution; his family moving to Paris, France…
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 … Anmass who helped save hundreds of children. 3.41 His sisters’ activities in the underground. 3.47 His views of anti-Semitism in France and the world. 3…
20. Fonds Abadi (CMXCIV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.16.1 | RG Number: RG-43.156
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1998
…Odette Abadi (née Rosenstock) was a doctor and during the Spanish civil war cared for refugees who came into France. Odette practiced as a doctor in…
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 … Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
21. Oral history interview with Maurice Benadon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area…
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 … learned French as base language; the family moved to France amidst the crisis (both economic and political) in Greece; his sister married in 1939 and…
22. Oral history interview with Arlette Grossfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.394.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0237
Date:
interview: 2014 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,250 And where were you born? 14 00:00:47,250 --> 00:00:48,470 In France. 15 00:00:48…
23. Oral history interview with Nicole Dorra
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.384 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0613
Date:
interview: 2010 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France on June 19, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2010.…
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 … 1 Audio Oral History Interview with Ms. Nicole DORRA recorded June 19, 2010 in Paris, France Nicole Dorra was born in Paris on June 9, 1932. Her…
24. Fink Family papers
2017.592.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.592.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945 July-1945 December
…Consists of correspondence addressed to Sgt. Gabriel George Fink (1917-1997) while stationed in France from loved ones in the United States…
25. Harry Burger, a Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1991.074 | RG Number: RG-02.027
Date:
1986
Subtitle:
memoir of the war - 1938-1945
… of Jews in Austria from 1933 to 1945, Harry Burger's flight into Italy and France, his imprisonment at the Sospel camp, and his participation in an…
26. Oral history interview with Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0286
Date:
interview: 1994 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… identifying Jewish star; her father and a neighbor being taken to a Nazi work camp in France; going into hiding in a Catholic children’s home in Nice, France…
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 … think that this is when we went to France with the idea of trying to get to Switzerland because Switzerland was a safe place. If I remember when we got to…
27. Albert M. Sharon memoir
1995.A.0636 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0636
Date:
1990
… 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…
28. Oral history interview with Emanuel Munzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.95 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0095
Date:
interview: 1992 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… France; living in a Jewish orphanage from 1934 until early 1937; never having to wear the yellow Star of David badge; joining his father and stepmother in…
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 … parents 227 00:15:45,690 --> 00:15:51,990 I left the country for France, and I had to be given away. 228 00:15:51,990 --> 00:15:56,880 In 1933? Contact…
29. Oral history interview with Henry Gallant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.53 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0528
Date:
interview: 2009 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… small house in Le Mans, France and then moving to an unoccupied part of Nice, France once the war began; living in the attic of a Gentile home and having…
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 … -- four countries accepted the -- gave asylum to 200 and some of the passengers. And those four countries were, Belgium, Holland, France and England. Q: We…
30. Oral history interview with Serge Klarsfeld and Beate Klarsfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.23 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0023
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the French army, fought the Germans, and escaped from a Stalag (prisoner-of-war camp); his father’s return to France after his escape, at which time he…
31. Oral history interview with Barton Nagata
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.21 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 January 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… College, where he did not experience any discrimination; being on guard duty when he was not needed as a radio operator on the Riviera in France; being…
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 … guard duty when I was not needed as radio operator on the Riviera in Southern France. I was detached from my unit and made a MP guarding German prisoners…
32. Pencil drawing of a hiding place in an attic by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.81
Date:
depiction: approximately 1943
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
33. Oral history interview with Georges Borchardt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.209.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1140
Date:
interview: 2021 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nazi's, going into hiding with an abortionist, a White Russian Princess, and other rescuers ; fleeing with his mother and sisters into unoccupied France…
34. Double-sided watercolor painting of a boy and an outdoor scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.92 left
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.92
Date:
depiction: 1941
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
35. Pencil drawing of the latrines at an internment camp by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.84
Date:
depiction: 1943 February 07-1943 March 21
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
36. Watercolor painting of a rural cabin by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.3
Date:
depiction: 1942 November-1943 April
Artwork Title:
Petite maisonette dans la vigne
Alternate Title:
Small house in the vineyard
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
37. Pencil drawing of a US Jeep on the Champs-Élysées by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.68
Date:
depiction: 1944 September
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
38. Pencil drawing of an elderly man sitting beside a camp stove by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.80 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.80
Date:
depiction: 1943 March 09
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
39. Double-sided watercolor painting of a street scene and farm scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.40 right
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.40
Date:
depiction: 1942
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
40. Pencil drawing of an elderly man in a fedora by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.79
Date:
depiction: 1943 February 17-1943 March 21
Artwork Title:
An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
41. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
42. Pencil drawing of Jacob sleeping in a church turned prisoner barrack by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.73
Date:
depiction: 1943 March 21-1943 April 17
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
43. Pencil drawing depicting a crowd of men gathered in front of a storefront by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.60 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.60
Date:
depiction: 1941-1943 September
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
44. Pencil drawing of men listening to a guard read a deportation list by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.58
Date:
depiction: 1943
Artwork Title:
Deportation list Gurs 1943
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
45. Pencil drawing of the day after the deportation from a camp by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.87
Date:
depiction: 1943 February 07-1943 March 21
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
46. Pencil drawing of seated inmates in a camp kitchen by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.59
Date:
depiction: 1943-1943 September
Artwork Title:
"Cuisine Gurs"
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
47. Pencil drawing of a man walking beneath an arch by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.70 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.70
Date:
depiction: 1941-1942
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
48. Painting on artist's board depicting prisoners in Gurs by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.50 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.50
Date:
depiction: 1943 February-1943 March
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
49. Pencil drawing of Mr. Landau and another man before deportation by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.76
Date:
depiction: 1943 February 17-1943 March 21
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…
50. Pencil drawing of a group of internees entertaining themselves by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.63 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.63
Date:
depiction: 1943 March 10
… Germany, and the authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. In June, Jacob and Sonia travelled to Paris, France, on a…