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1. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
undated: 
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… Hilde escaped southward through Belgium into France, reaching southern France by late June. Initially the family stayed in various locations in the…
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 … recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister…
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2. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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… 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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3. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
Special Collection:
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… to France by train. Ernest remained with his parents. Susan and Joseph met a third cousin in Paris and resided with him for a few weeks before…
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 … related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to…
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4. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi- occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States…
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5. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
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…Simon Jeruchim was born on December 25, 1929, in Paris, France, to Samuel and Alice Szpiro Jeruchim. Samuel was born on December 24, 1898, in Ostrow…
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 … gare de Lyon"; and his 58-page typed memoir with computer illustrations entitled “Hidden: The Jeruchim Family Saga in France and Under the Nazi…
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6. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
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… Republic) to B. M. (Max) and Elizabeth Margosches. He emigrated from Czechoslovakia to France in 1938 and then to England in 1942, and worked in chemical…
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 …, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United…
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7. Marianne Karmel collection
1988.51.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.51.1 | RG Number: RG-10.271
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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… Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne).…
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 … Grenier, and their daughter Marianne Servouze, and American soldiers in Coupvray, France (Seine-et-Marne). Languages: French Administrative Information…
8. Hans Vogel diary
2013.160.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.160.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1941
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… Walter, Hans, and Ruth to a resort in France for the summer of 1939. Simon and Hannah returned to France in August 1939. A week later, while visiting…
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  • Hans Vogel diary
9. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
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… May 1940, Sophie heard that the population from northern France was leaving in a panic because the Germans had broken through the Maginot Line, which…
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 … Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie…
10. Fonds Alice Ferrières (MDXXXIII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.17.1 | RG Number: RG-43.157
Date:
inclusive: 
… influence. Ferrières kept full records of her correspondence and other documents from this era. She was the first woman in France to be recognized as…
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 … acquisition is the Memorial to the Shoah, Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France…
11. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he…
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 … (Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via…
12. Salomon Berenholc papers
2011.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2011.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
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…Salomon Jacques Berenholc (now Sal Berenholz) was born to Rachelle and Izak Berenholc in Paris, France. Izak and Rachelle, both Polish-born Jews…
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 … was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison…
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  • Series 1: Salomon Berenholc papers 1942-1945
    • File 1: Diary 1942-1943
13. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
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…Philip D. Vock (b. Philippe David Vovk 1929-2006) was born in Paris, France to Marguerite Vovk (née Karyo, later Vock) and had a sister, Dora Esther…
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 … material, a journal, and photographs relating to Philip Vock’s wartime experiences hiding in France and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
14. Hans Steinitz papers
1988.147.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.147.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
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…Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French…
15. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… lived in Berlin. In 1938 Walter fled Germany for France with Edith Moser, his future wife. Edith Moser was born on March 26, 1907 in Wilmersdorf to Ernest…
16. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
…, and her boyfriend Maurice Rabinowicz (nicknamed Mischa) fled the German invasion of France by car from Châteaubriant to Toulouse via Nantes, Libourne…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
17. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
…Jews--France--History--20th century.…
18. 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…
19. Kurt Moser diary
2008.57.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.57.1
Date:
1943
Special Collection:
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…The Kurt Moser diary documents Moser’s experiences at the Château de la Hille in France (Ariège) and details his planning for escape to Spain and…
20. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… listen to music, and her religious feelings would be genuine. Following her graduation from high school in 1926, she studied in France at Nancy University…
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 … immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee…
21. Leser family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.436.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1959
… while in France after the war; notebooks containing written poetry in Russian and Yiddish; correspondence received by family members and friends in Munich…
22. Fannie Stern Selig diary
1991.A.0003 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 52
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-19.012.01
Date:
creation: 1947
Special Collection:
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… France, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Palestine. The diary focuses on topics such as her daily experiences, emigration of Jews to…
23. Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.91 | RG Number: RG-68.112M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and…
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 … 0000001018 Holland Section Gerrit Schouten: personal documents of a Dutch forced laborer in France and Belgium Netherlands, The Schouten Gerrit France…
24. Reichsarchiv, Potsdam (Fond 1255)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.553.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.70
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1945
Alternate Title:
Reich Archive in Potsdam
…Correspondence with other archives about exchange of literature, transfer of documents captured in France, and other matters; with the…
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 … content of collection Correspondence with other archives about exchange of literature, transfer of documents captured in France, and other matters; with the…
25. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
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…’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon…
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 …, during the Second World War Sharp helped rescue Jews under the German occupation in Czechoslovakia and France. Both were beautiful young wives with high…
26. Selected Documents from the Monastery of the of Notre-Dame de Sion, Paris (Archives of the Fathers and Brothers)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.321.1 | RG Number: RG-43.181
Date:
inclusive: 1811-2006
bulk: 1930-1956
…Catholic Church--France--Paris.…
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 … Church--France--Paris. Priests--France. Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism. Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church. Jews--Conversion to Christianity--France…
27. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
… she directed a children's colony "Le Lac" in Hameau-du-Lac near Sigean , France. On August 1, 1940 Ruth von Wild took over the management of the…
28. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… 1938, and in November 1938 Leopold left Austria for Belgium. Charles and his mother fled to France in December 1938. They were arrested in Strasbourg…
29. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
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…. Louis in 1939. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe, they disembarked in France. Vera and Ilse were sent to Villa Helvetia, an…
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 … Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United…
30. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.22.1 | RG Number: RG-43.162
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1970
… of Jewish communities in Paris; he was also a lecturer in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland…
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 … Contemporaine), France. The http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org 2…
31. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
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…Lucien Dreyfus (1882-1943) was born in Westhouse, France (at the time, Westhausen, Germany) to Jonas and Rose (Levy) Dreyfus. His education included…
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 … south of France, his observations on the rise of anti- Semitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the…
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  • Series 1: Lucien Dreyfus collection 1903-1944
    • File 4: Diary, (Cahier A) October 1925-May 7, 1941
    • File 5: Diary, (Cahier B) May 8, 1941-June 14, 1942
    • File 6: Diary, (Cahier C) January 16, 1936-August 23, 1942
    • File 7: Diary, (Cahier D) August 24, 1942-November 13, 1942
    • File 8: Diary, (Cahier E?) November 18, 1942-February 15, 1943
    • File 9: Diary, (Cahier F?) February 21, 1943-June 30, 1943
    • File 10: Diary, (Cahier G) August 1, 1943-September 1943
32. Renée de Monbrison diary and Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore memoir
2008.190.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.190.1
Date:
1939-1944
…The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of…
33. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
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…, France. Marcus, Dina, and Margot Blitz immigrated to the United States in November 1940. In 1941, the Zonligt family made their way through Spain and…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Zonligt family from Belgium and their Blitz relatives from the Netherlands, their migration to France in 1940…
34. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… Chaumont in Northwest France with the help of the Oeuvre de secours Aux enfants juifs (OSE); in 1942 stayed in different places in France; in September 1942…
35. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon, who was already living in the United…
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 …, Lotte, and Regine were forced from their home and moved to Warsaw, Poland. They left Poland in 1939 and settled in Le Havre, France. In late 1939 Leon…
36. Edwin Allan diary and photographs
2017.236.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2017.236.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1944
Special Collection:
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…Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940.…
37. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
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… Zwartberg. They spent several months in the camp before escaping to Lyon, France and going into hiding. Bronia decided to send Gerda to Switzerland where she…
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 … Zwartberg. They spent several months in the camp before escaping to Lyon, France and going into hiding. Bronia decided to send Gerda to Switzerland where she…
38. Klara Süss papers
2007.344.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2007.344.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… David were thrown out of their apartment and deported to Camp de Gurs in France. Erna and Margot sent food packages to their parents and continued to work…
39. Stíhání nacistických válečných zločinců (325)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.178 | RG Number: RG-48.019
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1976
bulk: 1959-1974
Alternate Title:
Prosecution of Nazi criminals
…France…
40. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian
Document | Accession Number: 2015.245.1 | RG Number: RG-67.050M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1953
…), the 29 servicing offices and missions (2 area offices in Cairo and Sydney; 10 liaison offices and missions in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy…
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 … initially filmed onto microfilms and copied through a cooperative agreement between the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Mémorial de la Shoah, France and…
41. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
… internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles. With his family’s help, he immigrated to the United States in October 1942 and changed…
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 … returned to Europe and disembarked in Belgium. He was arrested as an enemy alien in 1940 and sent to internment camps in France including St. Cyprien, Gurs…
42. Jack and Rose Mondschein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.33.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2018
… liberation, Rose and Mania were sent to Sweden to receive medical treatment. Rose remained in Sweden until 1952 when she moved to France. She was reunited with…
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 … brother Urek survived imprisonment in several camps. Jack and Urek reunite and live together in Passow, Germany for a time. He then moved to Paris, France…
43. Zemský odbor bezpečnosti Praha (300)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.301 | RG Number: RG-48.020
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1975
bulk: 1946-1947
Alternate Title:
Country Security Division, Prague
…France…
44. The Archive of Admonishment: The Hans-Jürgen Hässler Collection
Document | Accession Number: 2021.256.1
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1800-approximately 2011
Special Collection:
The Archive of Admonishment: The Hans-Jürgen Hässler Collection
…Camp des Sables, in France. (POW Camp)…
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 … France. (POW Camp) Dachau (Concentration Camp) Fuhlsbüttel (Concentration Camp) Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft Ravensbrück…
45. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
46. Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme collection, late 19th century-1980s
Document | Accession Number: 2018.92.1 | RG Number: RG-65.025
Date:
inclusive: before 1900-circa 1980
…Union générale des israélites de France…
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 … Belges Organismes allemands juifs -Transports d’enfants vers la Palestine 5 février 1940 Visas de transit pour la France Le comité essaye d’évacuer vers la…
47. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
…Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris.…
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 …. Refugees, Jewish--Cuba. Refugees, Jewish--France--Paris. Fur trade. Diamond cutters. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Haifa (Israel) Antwerp (Belgium) Havana…
48. Patriotes enchaînés : journaux de prisons, 1942-1944.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D805.A2 P38 1984
Published:
[Montreuil] : Musée de l'histoire vivante de Montreuil ; [Paris] : Jaher, [1984]
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49. Des millions de Riskine : extraits du journal (1939-1945) d'Alain Sené : à la mémoire de Youra Riskine / édité et présenté par Serge Klarsfeld.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.F9 S46 1998
Author/Creator:
Sené, Alain
Published:
Paris : Fils et filles des déportés juifs de France, 1998
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…Fils et filles des déportés juifs de France.…
50. Holding on and holding out : Jewish diaries from wartime France / Anne Freadman.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D804.195 .F74 2020
Author/Creator:
Freadman, Anne, 1944-
Published:
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
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…Holding on and holding out : Jewish diaries from wartime France / Anne Freadman.…