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1. Pencil drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.59
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
"Cuisine Gurs"
…"Cuisine Gurs"…
2. Pencil drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.58
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Deportation list Gurs 1943
…Deportation list Gurs 1943…
3. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.82
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Gurs
…Gurs…
4. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
2010.502.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.79
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?
…An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?…
5. 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
…Painting on artist's board depicting prisoners in Gurs by Jacob J. Barosin…
6. 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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 … invaded in May 1940. He was arrested and sent to St. Cyprien and Gurs. In May 1941 he was transferred to Les Milles. After Elly and Peter learned about his…
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7. Oral history interview with Alice Rosen
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0085
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… home in 1940 and taking them on trucks to Gurs, a concentration camp in France; spending a year in Gurs; her family’s relocation to camp Rivesaltes; her…
8. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers
1993.A.0005 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-10.079
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1947
bulk: 1938-1947
…, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
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 …, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
9. Gorodiscas family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.419.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1961
… they found a room and stayed until the end of the war. In 1942, Bencelis was arrested and sent to Gurs, where he spent a year. In April 1943, he was…
10. Oral history interview with Sarah Colin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.5 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0005
Date:
interview: 1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sarah Colin recalls having to register as a German-born citizen; being interned in Gurs; the kindness of the Gurs guards, who upon learning of her…
11. 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
… deportation to Gurs, an internment camp in France; returning to Nice and then escaping with her daughter to Aix-les-Bains, France; and returning to Antwerp…
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 … children’s home in France, while Myriam and her husband were detained in Gurs and then sent to the French Rivesaltes internment camp. Myriam eventually went…
12. 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
… parents in the commune of Gurs then living in Garlin until August 26, 1942 when they were rounded up by French police and sent to Gurs; being transported to…
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 … parents, twice in Gurs, once in Rivesaltes. On each occasion, I can clearly see all or most of the other people about crying and sobbing and whatever. I…
13. Ernest Marx photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.177.2
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
… and deported to Gurs in May 1940. Ernie was sent to Gurs in fall 1942, and was reunited with his mother. She had a stroke while in the camp, but…
14. Oral history interview with Alice Lang Rosen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.358.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0194
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alice Lang Rosen, born in 1934 in Lambsheim, Germany, describes her early childhood; the deportation of her family to the Gurs camp in France and…
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 … when the truck was full, we were driven to the concentration camp. Gurs was the first concentration camp that we were there.1 There we were all uh…
15. Donoff family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.77.108
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1964
… and provided them with false papers and ration cards. David Donoff (1920-1944) entered the Gurs concentration camp to help inmates, smuggled children…
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 … children and families and provided them with false papers and ration cards. David Donoff (Dodo, André Donnet, 1920‐1944) entered the Gurs concentration…
16. Oral history interview with Margit Meissner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.87 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0087
Date:
interview: 1992 June 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… eventually joined her in France; her mother’s arrest and deportation to Gurs; living in Paris when the Germans advanced; how, as an Austrian citizen, she was…
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 …, police arrested Margit’s mother and deported her to a quasi‐concentration camp, Gurs, on the French‐Spanish border. Margit was in Paris when the Germans…
17. Oral history interview with Andre Waksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.431.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0849
Date:
interview: 2015 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…André Waksman, born on June 12, 1943 in Elne, France, describes how his mother was taken from the internment camp in Gurs to deliver her baby; his…
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 … keep your mother in the camp and prevent her from being deported. Well, somehow. What I don't know is-- because when I was born, my mother came from Gurs…
18. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
…Gurs (Concentration camp)…
19. Portfolio front and back covers, "Drawings 1940/1944"
2010.502.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.95 a-b
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Title:
Drawings 1940/1944
… arrested Jacob and Sonia as enemy aliens and separated them. On May 25, Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp in the Pyrenees Mountains. On June 2…
20. 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
… Paris bombings; facing a short internment in Gurs due to his German nationality; his mother tricking the guards to allow her and her family out of the…
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 … take us off the train and put us on trucks and the next stop was a French concentration camp called Camp De Gurs and we found ourselves in the Gurs camp…