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1. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.337 | RG Number: RG-67.044M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1954
bulk: 1939-1945
…Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)…
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 … YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH, 15 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10011 GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIAL COLLECTION ON FRANCE, HOLOCAUST PERIOD GUIDE TO…
2. Refugees from France
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3037 | Film ID: 2393
Film Title:
St. Nazaire Civilians
Date:
Event: 1945 February 12
Duration:
00:00:46
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Refugees from France…
3. Liberation of So. France; US reclaims Guam
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0963 | Film ID: 913
Date:
Event: 1944 July
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:08:07
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Liberation of So. France; US reclaims Guam…
4. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0969 | Film ID: 914
Film Title:
A Salute to France
Date:
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:08:34
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France…
5. Guide to France owned by Milton Emont
Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.12
Date:
publication: 1944
Title:
So this is France
Subtitle:
A Short Guide
…Guide to France owned by Milton Emont…
6. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0970 | Film ID: 914
Film Title:
A Salute to France
Date:
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:09:47
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France…
7. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0972 | Film ID: 914
Film Title:
A Salute to France
Date:
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:09:03
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France…
8. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0971 | Film ID: 914
Film Title:
A Salute to France
Date:
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:08:25
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France…
9. Rivesaltes concentration camp, France
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Film | Accession Number: 1991.261.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0521 | Film ID: 234
Film Title:
The Other Side of War: In a Concentration Camp in France
Date:
Event: 1941 April
Production: 1941
Duration:
00:01:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Rivesaltes concentration camp, France…
10. UNRRA selected records AG-018-021 : France Office
Document | Accession Number: 2016.233.1 | RG Number: RG-67.060
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
…UNRRA selected records AG-018-021 : France Office…
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 …Summary of AG-018-021 Offices in France Title Offices in France Active Dates 1943-1949 Administrative History Since France was a contributor to UNRRA…
11. Zionist and other Jewish organizations in France (Fond 186)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.626.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.63
Date:
bulk: 1930-1940
inclusive: 1891-1940
…Zionist and other Jewish organizations in France (Fond 186)…
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 … Zionist and other Jewish organizations in France (Fond 186) RG-11.001M.63 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
12. Paris Post (Paris, France) [Newspaper]
Object | Accession Number: 1988.63.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1945 August 14
Title:
Paris Post, August 14, 1945
…Paris Post (Paris, France) [Newspaper]…
13. Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France
2015.489.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.489.2
Date:
received: approximately 1944
manufacture: after 1926-before 1940
…Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France…
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14. Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France
Document | Accession Number: 2017.21.1 | RG Number: RG-43.161
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1994
…Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France…
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 …-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France Dates: 1944-1994 Accession number: 2017.21.1 Record Group Number: RG-43.161 Creator…
15. Records from the French National Archives on the persecution of Jews in France (F 41)
Document | Accession Number: 2001.20 | RG Number: RG-43.020M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Records from the French National Archives on the persecution of Jews in France (F 41)…
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 …Records from the French National Archives on the persecution of Jews in France (F 41) RG-43.020M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100…
16. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.518.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.97
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1940
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722)…
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 …American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722) RG-11.001M.97 United States Holocaust Memorial…
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17. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France
Document | Accession Number: 2006.86 | RG Number: RG-67.007M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
…American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France…
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 … American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France RG-67.007M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100…
18. Double-sided drawing created by a hidden child
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.11
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Gagnés la France / Farmer
…Gagnés la France / Farmer…
19. German campaign in France and Britain; Churchill; Egypt
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1108 | Film ID: 931
Film Title:
The World at War
Date:
Production: 1942
Duration:
00:10:51
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…German campaign in France and Britain; Churchill; Egypt…
20. Activities in France; Kershner speech; children sing
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.676.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0166 | Film ID: 4243
Film Title:
American Friends Service Committee
Date:
Event: 1940-1945
Duration:
00:17:19
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Activities in France; Kershner speech; children sing…
21. Watercolor painting of a street scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.6
Date:
depiction: 1941 May-1942 November
Artwork Title:
Lunel-France
…Lunel-France…
22. Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France
Object | Accession Number: 2013.440.2
Date:
received: 1938 March
manufacture: approximately 1932-approximately 1938
…Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France…
23. Eichmann Trial -- Session 82 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Bohemia and Moravia and France
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.107 | Film ID: 2107
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 June 29
Production: 1961 June 29
Duration:
01:01:14
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Eichmann Trial -- Session 82 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Bohemia and Moravia and France…
24. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, France: General Correspondence (FO 146)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.331 | RG Number: RG-59.062
Date:
inclusive: 1946
…Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, France: General Correspondence (FO 146)…
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 … 1 Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, France: General Correspondence (FO 146) RG…
25. Double-sided drawing of battle scenes imagined by a hidden child
Object | Accession Number: 2002.420.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Gagnés la France : Battle at Sea
…Gagnés la France : Battle at Sea…
26. Watercolor painting of a garden scene by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.5
Date:
depiction: 1944 March-1944 June
Artwork Title:
Spring 1944 Hiding in Soisy s/M France
…Spring 1944 Hiding in Soisy s/M France…
27. 89th Infantry Division poster reporting troop movements that belonged to Orban Wales Peters, Jr.
2019.294.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.294.9
Date:
depiction: 1945 January 10-1945 May 09
Title:
89th Infantry Division: route of the 89th, France-Luxembourg-Germany
…89th Infantry Division: route of the 89th, France-Luxembourg-Germany…
28. Miniature "button book" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes
Object | Accession Number: 1992.32.1
Date:
publication: approximately 1941
Title:
Des Führers Kampf in Frankreich : Frankreich, der grösste Feldzug aller Zeiten vom 5. bis 25. Juni 1940
Series Title:
Zweites Kriegshilfswerk fur das Deutsche Rote Kreuz
Alternate Title:
The Führer's Battle in France: France the Greatest Campaign of all Times from June 5 to 25, 1940
…The Führer's Battle in France: France the Greatest Campaign of all Times from June 5 to 25, 1940…
29. Morton N. Cohen collection
1990.297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.297
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-1945
… well as a typed manuscript of the history of the 95th Infantry Division. The photographs reveal scenes from the Division’s travel throughout France…
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 …’s travel throughout France, Germany, and Holland. Of particular note are photographs of the arrest of Franz Von Papen, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany…
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30. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
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31. 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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32. Emergency Rescue Committee collection
1991.242 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1991.242
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
…The Emergency Rescue Committee was formed in 1940, shortly after the German occupation of France. Created by several political advocates, the…
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 … collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940‐1941. As a…
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33. Lyszka family papers
2015.489.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.489.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1974
…Renee Lyszka was born on March 13, 1940, in Paris, France to Abraham Juda and Sara Cwajgenbaum Lyszka. Her father was a tailor. Her parents were…
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 … number: 2015.489.1 Creator: Lyszka, Renée (Paris :France) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, one oversize folder) Repository: United States…
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34. 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: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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35. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
…The collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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36. Hiram and Rose Bingham papers
1991.240.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.240.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1989
… to help save Jews and political opponents of the Nazi regime caught in France. His wife, Rose, and children left France before the German invasion…
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 … France. His wife, Rose, and children left France before the German invasion. Bingham issued visas, provided papers to help refugees be released from…
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37. Tabaczyński and Asz families papers
1999.312.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.312.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
… the war’s end Gina returned to Poland, but she left for Paris in the spring of 1946. She remained in France until she was able to secure an American…
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 … her first husband, Mark Asch, before, during, and after the Holocaust in Kłodawa, Warsaw, the Warsaw ghetto, Italy, France, and America. Languages…
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38. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
…Charles Albert Weingarten was born on January 13, 1941, in Nice, France, to Margarethe Weingarten, an actress, and Rudolf Gelb. Margarethe was born…
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 … false identity in Nice, France, during World War II, their postwar lives, and Weingarten’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain compensation for Holocaust-era…
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39. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… forced to leave. The family packed their 1938 Oldsmobile Sedan and drove through France. On the way, the family encountered British troops, when Michel…
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 … through France, Spain, and Portugal before immigrating to the United States. The contents of the papers contain various documents of Michael and Manya…
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40. 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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41. Tartière family papers
1988.93 Box 2 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.93
Date:
interview: 1920-1950
… Middleburg, VA. She had a son, Hugh Byfield (1922-1984), from her previous marriage. Byfield served in France and Germany during World War II with the 1269…
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 … resistance; and Gladys’ work following the war with American Aid to France, Inc., providing food to French children. The collection also includes some of…
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42. 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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43. Joseph G. Rowley collection
1995.A.0624 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0624
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1946
bulk: 1944-1945
… Germany and France between 1944 and 1945. Included is a series of photographs which document the liberation of Dachau, images of Allied forces at Adolf…
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 … in Germany and France between 1944 and 1945. Included is a series of photographs which document the liberation of Dachau, images of Allied forces at…
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44. 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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45. 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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46. Union des femmes françaises portfolio
2017.362. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.362.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
…The Union des femmes françaises (UFF, now known as Femmes solidaires) was created by former members of the Union des jeunes filles de France and…
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 … President Henry A. Wallace during a trip he made to France in April 1947. The collected materials were presented to him as mementos of the French Resistance…
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47. 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:
Save Their Stories
…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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48. Rev. Stanley Dabrowski papers
1995.A.1132 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1132
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1995
…Paris (France).…
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 … regarding the Holocaust and Dachau once he arrived in the United States. Included in this collection is Rev. Dabrowski’s Polish passport issued in France in…
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49. de Boton family papers
2013.103.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2013.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-2012
bulk: 1932-1947
… 1918. Yves studied medicine in Montpellier and Paris, France, eventually earning his degree. He also became a French citizen in 1931. The same year, he…
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 …: 2013.103.1 Creator: de Boton family (Paris :France) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
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50. Levy family papers
2015.415.1 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1981
bulk: 1924-1969
… later that year to flee the growing Nazi presence. That same year, Marlyse began attending school in Thionville, France. After Luxembourg was occupied by…
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 … to flee the growing Nazi presence. That same year, Marlyse began attending school in Thionville, France. After Luxembourg was occupied by Germany in…
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