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1. Albert Garih testimonies
2011.330.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.330.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Albert Garih and his twin brother were born June 24, 1938, in Paris, France, to Benjamin and Claire (née Alfandari) Garih. Albert’s twin died in…
2. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… Antwerp. In May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family fled Antwerp for France with Edith’s uncle Max Scheiner and his family in his bakery…
3. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
… to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt…
4. Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.562.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1987
… International Red Cross that allowed him to travel to Paris, France. In early September 1946, Jehuda arrived in Henonville, France, 50km from Paris, where he…
5. Hans Steinitz papers
1988.147.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.147.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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…
6. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
9. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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
10. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution
Document | Accession Number: 2021.102.1
Date:
creation: 2020
… through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original…
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 … 1942) 32 Leaving France (September–October 1942) 35 Spain (October – November 1942) 40 Crossing the Atlantic (November – December 1942) 42 Arrival in…
11. Camillo Adler papers
2009.403.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2009.403.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France…
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 … translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign…
12. "Goodbye for always"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0304 | RG Number: RG-02.187
…Describes Cecile Kaufer’s (Paris, France, b. circa 1932) childhood in Paris, France; the German occupation of France and the consequent fates of her…
13. Dear Kurt
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0284 | RG Number: RG-02.195
… France and subsequently within France; the family's internment in the camps of Limoges, Nexon, Gurs, and Drancy; hiding under assumed identities; and the…
14. Simone Bowers memoir
2012.88.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2012.88.1
Date:
creation: circa 2004
…Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, written by a friend of Simone Bowers, originally of Benfeld, France, based on notes of conversations about Simone…
15. Kurt Moser diary
2008.57.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.57.1
Date:
1943
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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…
16. Articles and clippings relating to the war crimes trial of Klaus Barbie trial
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-06.007.01.01
… Lyon, France. Among the topics discusses are the allegations against Barbie, the testimony of Barbie's victims, the children of Izieu, France, and the…
17. 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…
18. Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection
1994.A.0360 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0360
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1958
… in Gdańsk, Poland. As anti-Semitic practices grew in Poland, neither Maria nor Moise could find work. Because of this, Moise immigrated to France in…
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 …‐2126. Abstract: The Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection contains personal narratives by Maria, a Polish dressmaker living in France and…
19. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942
1997.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0128
Date:
creation: 1997-1997
… invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and…
20. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
… had high blood pressure and they could not go. Arthur and Johanna were desperate to get 14 year old Heinz to safety and sent him to France on a…