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1. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers
2004.248.1 Box 2 Folder 26 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1898-2013
bulk: 1940-1947
… 1934, Mrs. Fränkel and her sons moved to France. It was there that Herbert met Mariette Rothschild, and after marrying and having a son, Edward, they…
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 … by the events of the Holocaust. Includes documents about Yvonne Redgis (Rothschild) and her life in pre-war France, during the occupation of France, as…
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2. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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. 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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 … Otto's internment in several camps in southern France, Elly and Peter's survival in France during the war in Graulhet and Font-Romeu, and Adolf…
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5. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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6. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
… Anzio, fought in Italy, France, Germany, and Austria, and helped liberate his hometown of Augsburg on April 28, 1945. He returned to the United States at…
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 … Regiment, 1st Battalion, landed in Europe at Anzio, fought in Italy, France, Germany, and Austria, and helped liberate his hometown of Augsburg on April 28…
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7. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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8. Childhood memoirs of World War II
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0207 | RG Number: RG-02.138
Date:
creation: 1987
…Eva Edmands was born on October 27, 1929, in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, her family fled to Paris, France. Her father worked as a journalist in Paris…
9. "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…
10. 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…
11. Isaac Kornowski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.463.1
Date:
use: circa 1935
…-Jewish immigrants to France before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
12. Simon Fuks collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0131 | RG Number: RG-02.147
Date:
1941-1993
…During the years 1941 to 1943, Simon Fuks was the rabbi for the community of Agen in southern France.…
13. Nadia Gould collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0265 | RG Number: RG-02.141
Date:
undated: 
…Nadia Gould (née Balter, 1927- ) was born in Strasbourg, France and immigrated to the United States in 1943.…
14. John Rothschild memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2011.359.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, written by John J. Rothschild, originally of Zurich, Switzerland. In his memoir, Mr. Rothschild, who moved to France…
15. Stalin, Hitler, and Abraham Briansky
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0191 | RG Number: RG-02.125
… years in Palestine; emigrated to France; fought in the French army during the German invasion; fled to southern France following the French capitulation…
16. "Parcours"
Document | Accession Number: 2014.315.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2012
…Pierre Saragoussi was born in Paris on 24 November 1937, the second child of Bitty and Allegre (nee Yomtov) Saragoussi, who had immigrated to France…
17. Memory
Document | Accession Number: 2000.18
Date:
1999
Subtitle:
Deportation recollections
…Contains a memoir, 69 pages, by Jules Fainzang about his deportation from Drancy, France, on August 28, 1942, to Metz, Cosel (Poland), Sacrau…
18. A memoir for Paul, David and Adam
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-02.114
… Poland and Romania to Paris, France, Paulette's and her parents' journey to southern France after the Nazis seized Paris, the fate of her relatives who…
19. 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…
20. Affaires militaires
Document | Accession Number: 2000.251 | RG Number: RG-43.017M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
Alternate Title:
Military Affairs
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Archives nationales (France)…
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 … prisons in France, Germany, Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia. Part of the material documents war crimes in Germany, Italy, France, Poland, and Russia…
21. 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
22. "I was a Child During the War"
Document | Accession Number: 2008.387.1
Date:
2008
…Consists of one DVD entitled, "I was a Child During the War," which tells the story of Bertrand and Ariane Rosenau, originally of Paris, France…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. Simon Drucker memoir
1999.A.0243 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0243
Date:
1999 September 21
… re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and…
26. 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…
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. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
… Nazi regime. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and deported to St. Cyprien internment camp in Vichy France. In October…
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 … concentration camps in France including Noé, Gurs, Saint‐Cyprien, Nexon, as well as the Fort de Romainville prison in Paris and the Ulmer Höhe prison in…
29. Esther Bergman memoir
1988.084 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.084 | RG Number: RG-02.013.01
Date:
undated: 
…Esther Bergman (née Stern) was born in Antwerp on 21 March 1935. After the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, her family fled to southern France…
30. 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…
31. "Fort Montluc and Ravensbrück"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0069 | RG Number: RG-02.038
Date:
undated: 
Subtitle:
a record of imprisonment
… subjected to severe treatment. The testimony describes her deportation from France to Ravensbrück, slave labor in a German plane factory, experiences with…
32. Salomon Berenholc papers
2011.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2011.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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
33. 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
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. 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…
37. The worm in the apple
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0141 | RG Number: RG-02.106
… military during the incorporation of Austria and the Sudetenland into the Greater Reich and the German invasions and occupations of Poland, France, and the…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. 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…
41. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… work camp but fled with his brother, Erich, via Belgium, France, and Spain (spending time in internment camps in France and Spain) to England. He joined…
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 … Switzerland via France. The bulk of the collection is comprised of love letters between Jacques and Hedi while they were separated during the war. Languages…
42. 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…
43. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
… arrested and deported from a village in southern France in 1942, and survived several concentration and labor camps including Pawiak, Drancy, Lyon-Venissieux…
44. 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…
45. 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…
46. 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…
47. 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…
48. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in 1935, Edmund decided the family needed to leave. He sold his business and they moved across the border into France. After Kristallnacht Edmond…
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 … concentration camp, and France. The collection includes documents and photographs relating to their imprisonment in Gurs, false identity cards, and postcards sent…
49. 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…
50. 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…