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1. 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…
2. Max Vielgut papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.166.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2010
… Germans in 1940, and was later transferred to Saint-Cyprien camp in France. In November, he and the other prisoners were transferred to Gurs. In early…
3. Oral history interview with Rosalia White
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.43 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0043
Date:
interview: 1983 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… emigrate; being imprisoned in several camps, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien, and Rivesaltes; travelling through France, Brussels, and Israel after the war…
4. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
… Europe, were arrested and placed in Les Milles and Gurs concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they both were killed.…
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 … States, his parents, who remained behind in Europe, were arrested and placed in Les Milles and Gurs concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz in…
5. Oral history interview with Kurt Herzog
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.3 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0003
Date:
interview: 1990 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… St. Cyprien on May 10, 1940; being transported to Gurs and then to Drancy in the summer of 1942; being sent in a rail transport to Birkenau; being…
6. Oral History interview with Lilly Gottlieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.34 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0034
Date:
interview: 1989 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and experiencing antisemitism; the German invasion of Belgium; her father's time in St. Cyprien, Les Milles, and Gurs concentration camps; thinking that…
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 …:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,360 to another camp called Gurs. 531 00:26:54,360 --> 00:27:00,240 And from Gurs, they were sent to the camps in Poland. 532 00…
7. Oral history interview with Eitan Ginat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.53 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0053
Date:
interview: 1993 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… near the Spanish border; the nearby Gurs camp; being discharged from the camp; he joined the rest of his family near Toulouse; being a student at…
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 … Pyrenese border. Talks about the shameful betrayal by the French. Describes the nearby Gurs camp with its German (also Jewish) more educated refugees whom he…
8. 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…
9. Oral history interview with Ruth Keller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.41 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0041
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and later to France, where her father was interned first in Gurs and later in Les Miles (near Avignon); falling very sick with diphtheria after a…
10. Goldstein family letters
2000.378.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.378.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
… Regina’s sister Fanni, moved to Brussels, Belgium. With the invasion of Belgium by Germany in 1940, Heinrich was sent to Gurs internment camp. The rest…
11. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… held at Noé from October 1, 1942 to February 20, 1943. By February 24, 1943, Julian had been transported to the Gurs internment camp. On March 4, 1943…
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 … on October 5, 1942, Julian was held at Noé from October 1, 1942 to February 20, 1943. By February 24, 1943, Julian had been transported to the Gurs…
12. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
… Mannheim was deported to Gurs. Feodora’s husband, Robert Singer (1921‐2005), was born in Vienna to film distributor Josef Singer (1885‐1947) and Adele…
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 … home in Mannheim on the day the remaining Jewish population of Mannheim was deported to Gurs. Feodora’s husband, Robert Singer (1921‐2005), was…
13. George Feger letters
2010.315 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2010.315
Date:
creation: 1938
… an “engineer mechanician.” He was deported from Gurs on convoy number 18 to Auschwitz concentration camp on August 8, 1942. He died at Auschwitz…
14. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
…. 1943), who had served with the French Foreign Legion. Shortly after their marriage Wilhelm was arrested and deported to Gurs. He was subsequently…
15. Sussman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.656.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1943
… (1903-1966), and their two sons Bruno and Jack left for Brussels shortly after the Anschluss. Heinrich was sent to Gurs and Regina and the boys remained…
16. Tennenbaum family documents
2013.119.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.119.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1936
… received US immigration visas to immigrate in 1940, but then Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940. They fled to France, where Sara was detained in Gurs…
17. Young Bobby and Edith in prewar Austria
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.505.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4242 | Film ID: 2765
Film Title:
Marcus Tennenbaum -- home movies
Date:
Event: June-September 1937
Duration:
00:12:50
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… years before making it to the U.S. after the war. Edith's maternal grandmother, Sara Austein, was briefly interned in Gurs, a camp in southern France.…
18. Used Collonil leather oil brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.46
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… families in Germany, Switzerland and the United States before World War II and in Germany and Gurs internment camp in France during the war.…
19. Tennenbaum family in Nazi Vienna; departing on the Queen Mary ship
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.505.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4240 | Film ID: 2763
Film Title:
Marcus Tennenbaum -- home movies
Date:
Event: November 1937 to March 1939
Duration:
00:08:59
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… years before making it to the U.S. after the war. Edith's maternal grandmother, Sara Austein, was briefly interned in Gurs, a camp in southern France.…
20. Oral history interview with Edith Mayer Cord
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.536.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0992
Date:
interview: 2018 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … for nine months. Released in Spring 1940. July 1940, Vichy police arrested father and brother. Never saw father again. He was transported first to Gurs…