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1. 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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2. Oral history interview with Georges Tempel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.90 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0090
Date:
interview: 2011 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Georges Tempel, born in July 1938 in Paris, France, describes his Hungarian parents and their movements through southern France during the war; how…
3. Oral history interview with Ms. Rudo
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.7 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0007
Date:
interview: 1946 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview with Rudo on July 30, 1946, in Paris, France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of…
4. Oral history interview with Josette J. Laznowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.211.11 | RG Number: RG-90.133.0011
Date:
interview: 2018 December 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Josette J. Laznowski, born in 1940 in Paris, France, discusses her family; her sister who was born in 1937; her father, who was sent to Morocco when…
5. Schloss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.503.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-1948
… Henriette (later Henrietta Barkey, 1937-2016) was born in Paris in 1937. When Germany invaded France in 1940, Johanna and Henriette moved south and lived in…
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 … documenting the Schloss family’s escape from Nazi-occupied France and photographs documenting Henriette Schloss as a baby and toddler in France. French records…
6. Arnold H. Einhorn papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0895
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
… Germans entered Belgium in May 1940, the Einhorn family fled to France. After registering as refugees, the family settled in the Ardèche province in France…
7. Selected records of the Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Document | Accession Number: 2004.319 | RG Number: RG-72.002
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… materials relate to Poland, Germany, and France.…
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 … Europe during the Second World War. The bulk of the materials relate to Poland, Germany, and France. Inventory: Folder 1: This material relates to Polish…
8. Valeriu and Eva Gerson Marcu identity card
Document | Accession Number: 1993.28.1
Date:
1940 September 30
…: typewritten form with handwritten entries, photographs of bearers, contains entry, exit and transit visas; issued by Rumanian consulate at Bziers, France…
9. Oral history interview with Charles Hochner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.211.7 | RG Number: RG-90.133.0007
Date:
interview: 2018
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Charles Hochner, born on October 12, 1928, in Mulhouse, Alsace, France, discusses his experiences during WWII; spending part of the war in hiding…
10. Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.92.1 | RG Number: RG-58.046
Date:
inclusive: 2011
Alternate Title:
Elsbeth Kasses papers
… consists of: photographs; certificates; medals; and correspondence, including various documents relating to childcare in the southern France, refugee rescue…
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 … digitalisiert wurde: Croix-Rouge Suisse (CRS), Berne (Hg.): Gurs. Un camp d'internement en France 1939 - 1943. Dessins - Aquarelles - Photografies. Collection…
11. Ajke family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.88 | RG Number: RG-10.226
Date:
1910-1999
… in Camp Beaune-la-Rolande in France, soldiers in the French army, and a memoir written by Marek Ajke entitled, "Memorias De La Rebelion En El Ghetto De…
12. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers
1998.A.0040.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0040.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1971
… Europe. The Cohns disembarked in France, but continued to pursue immigration to Cuba to rejoin their son. They finally sailed to Cuba via Portugal aboard…
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 … and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis…
13. Selected records from the Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-06.017
Date:
1947-1985
… Argentina after World War II and whose extradition was sought by the governments of Yugoslavia, West Germany, the United States, and France. For a list of…
14. Oral history interview with Monique Franco
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2023.22.1 | RG Number: RG-90.259.0001
Date:
interview: 2022 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Monique Franco, born in Paris, France in 1934 recounters her Holocaust experience of being abandoned by her mother and left with her great…
15. Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
Document | Accession Number: 2012.285 | RG Number: RG-58.025
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1969
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
…Elsa Lüthi-Ruth (1909-2005), was a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross and in various internment camps in France during World War II. After the outbreak…
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 …, 27.8.1944 - Micheli, Odette: Aperçu sur l`activité de la Croix-Rouge suisse secours aux enfants en France 1942-1947, Genf 1949, 85 S. 9 Korrespondenz…
16. 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…
17. Oral history interview with Carmen Barros
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.6 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0006
Date:
interview: 2011 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a bunker; the xenophobic attitudes of her German classmates; being home-schooled; her family’s trip to Paris, France, where they met other Chileans…
18. Max and Shari Bronner papers
1997.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1942
… family members Maximillian Schaefer and Simon and Gertrude Einhorn, from France to the United States. Simon and Gertrude Einhorn survived the Holocaust…
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 … to the United States from Nuremberg via France and his unsuccessful efforts to bring his parents to the United States from Nuremberg via Palestine…
19. Oral history interview with Lea Kleiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.48 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0048
Date:
interview: 2011 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… leaving Zagreb in March 1939 for Paris, France; living in Paris for a few months then going to Deauville, France; how the family plan had been to put the…
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 … and interned in camps in France. Lea thinks that this is a little known fact. She also says that the passengers that had been taken off her ship were…
20. Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.378 | RG Number: RG-43.093M
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1996
Alternate Title:
Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid
…World War, 1939-1945--France.…
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 … and their organization, battle plans, and actions in occupied France. Also contains information on liberation, immigration and refugee issues, and aid…
21. Romanian troops; Tiso; French war equipment
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.476.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3715 | Film ID: 2636
Film Title:
Ufa Newsreel Nr. 469, 1940
Date:
Event: 1940
Production: 1940
Duration:
00:07:41
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…FRANCE…
22. Drawing of the hygiene barrack at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.3
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
… to bury them. Heinrich did not return home until the following month, on December 16. After the German invasion of northern and western France in May…
23. Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.91.1 | RG Number: RG-58.045
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1982
Alternate Title:
Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers
…, France and in other places. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne (also known as Maternitat d'Elna in Catalan, Maternidad de Elna in…
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 … Gertrud Ketterer, Seen, 24.1.2002, TS, 3 S. - Gilg, Richard: Le Secours Suisse aux Enfants dans le sud de la France, 1939 à 1947: depuis 1942 sous la…
24. Oral history interview with Rebecca Pollack Chelminsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.417.4 | RG Number: RG-50.958.0004
Date:
interview: 2006 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from Belarus to Mexico a year before her, as she did not have the necessary papers to travel; going with her mother and to Paris, France via Riga, Latvia…
25. Oral history interview with Nino Barzilai
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.16 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0016
Date:
interview: 1946 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberated by the American army from the train in Börgermoor; being a Jewish refugee in Paris, France, and deciding with his family to remain in France…
26. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… camp at Les Milles, France. Alma and Ursula followed him to France to try to find him but were arrested in Paris and detained in the internment camp at…
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 … and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese…
27. 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…
28. George Blau collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0093 | RG Number: RG-10.112
…George Blau (Vienna, Austria, 17 Nov. 1911-1999) was born to a Jewish family. He left Austria at an unknown date and settled in Marseille, France…
29. Section spéciale de la cour d'appel de Paris (1941-1944)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.252.1 | RG Number: RG-43.177
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1959
Alternate Title:
Special Section of the Appeals Court of Paris
…France. Cour d'appel (Paris). Section spéciale (1941-1944)…
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 … of Paris Dates: 1894-1959 Accession number: 2020.252.1 Creator: France. Cour d'appel (Paris). Section spéciale (1941-1944) Extent: 211,225 digital…
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 …re édition électronique Archives nationales (France) Pierrefitte-sur-Seine 2013 1 • INTRODUCTION Référence Z/4/1-Z/4/167 Niveau de description sous-série…
30. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
… Cohen, 1883-1942). After the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the Elsoffers persuaded their daughters to leave Germany, and both ended up in France. Ruth…
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 … repeatedly in Belgium, France, and Spain, prior to his release in 1943 and immigration first to Palestine, and then the United States. Included is extensive…
31. Oral history interview with Annelise Hentschel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.35 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0035
Date:
interview: 2011 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was safe from the Allie’s bombardment; how the Chilean ambassador tried to get her a German passport; leaving Germany in October for Biarritz, France…
32. Oral history interview with Gitla Klajman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.45 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0045
Date:
interview: 2011 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… northern France; receiving help from the OSE; meeting her brother-in-law in Paris, France and celebrating the liberation of Leon Blum; meeting her future…
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 … out that a paternal uncle survived in northern France, Lonz, (?) and he sent the three sisters safe conducts to reunite with him. The OSE helped them…
33. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
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 …. Ernst Vendig was arrested following the 1940 German invasion and interned in camps in France including St. Cyprien and Gurs. In 1941, Fred, Charlotte…
34. Oral history interview with Benzion Epstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.8 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0008
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… wife, Jana (née Glasserman), who was born in the colony Esperanza to a father who was a ritual slaughterer; passing through Paris, France during their…
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 … conversations with refugees who were there. The passage, with the refugees, from France to Israel on the “Negba” ship. The dire conditions. While in Argentina…
35. Oral history interview with Eugenia Unger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.269.1 | RG Number: RG-50.874.0001
Date:
interview: 2011-2012
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Modena, Italy; going to Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy, where her son survived tuberculosis; receiving support from UNWRA; going to Paris, France and…
36. Oral history interview with Ossy Kreisberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.53 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0053
Date:
interview: 2011 August 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from 1945 to 1947; going to a yeshiva in Paris, France; arriving in 1949 in Chile; not assigning any importance to material things because of his…
37. Comité Exécutif International du Rassemblement mondial contra le racisme et anti-sémitisme, Paris (Fond 99)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.626.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.60
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1940
Alternate Title:
International Executive Committee of the International Union Against Racism and Antisemitism
… Division in 2000. Note: Original records transferred to France, and currently located at the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, Paris.…
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 … Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2000. Note: Original records transferred to France, and currently located at the Centre de documentation…
38. Oral history interview with Rita Herdan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.38 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0038
Date:
interview: 2011 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for her to go to Chile; the six month voyage, including a sojourn of three months in Paris, France; managing to bring her parents and brother to Chile…
39. Bernard Rolland de Miota collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.376.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2010
…Spain. Consulate (Paris, France)…
40. Oral history interview with Erica Kurz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.54 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0054
Date:
interview: 2010 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Bucharest at the end of 1945; going to Paris, France in May 1947 in order to immigrate to Chile; meeting many Sephardic Jews; ration cards; sailing to Chile…
41. Oral history interview with Luis Stillmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Communism; working as an interpreter at the DP camp in Ebensee and with UNRRA in Ansbach, Germany; moving to Paris, France and receiving help from HIAS while…
42. Oral history interview with Leike Kogan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.17 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0017
Date:
interview: 1986 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France; her husband finishing at the school of agronomical engineering, while she took various courses at the Sorbonne; working as an accountant; Mr. Kogan…
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 … army, and taken prisoner. He was released only in 1920. After finishing the Gymnasium, Leike and her husband decided to go to study in France. Her…
43. UNRRA selected records AG-018-002 : Controller and Public Information (S-0554)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.248.1 | RG Number: RG-67.046M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
…), 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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 … microfilm and copied through a cooperative agreement between the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Mémorial de la Shoah, France and the UN‐ARMS. The USHMM…
44. Izak and Marthe Weber papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2006
…Paris (France).…
45. Paraguay-Legajos de Comunidades e Instituciones Judías
Document | Accession Number: 2017.343.1 | RG Number: RG-68.207M
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1974
Alternate Title:
Records of Jewish communities and institutions in Paraguay
…France…
46. Oral history interview with Kurt Riegner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.23 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0023
Date:
interview: 1985 May
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Paris, France in July 1948 to organize refugees; going to the displaced person camps to interview the survivors as to the skills they had and what…
47. American OSE Committee (RG 494)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.321.1 | RG Number: RG-67.066M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1955
…France…
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 …). In early 1934, OSE France was formed and immediately was faced with the question of the substantial stream of refugees who had escaped from Germany and…
48. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… unit deployed for Europe on October 6, 1944, and arrived in Marseilles, France, on October 20. In December 1944, Bruno was awarded the Bronze Star for…
49. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… interned in Gurs internment camp in France. Mina was able to correspond with her and send her an affadavit of suppot for a US visa. Klara managed to escape…
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 … terms Gurs (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews--Germany. Holocaust victims--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--France--Gurs…
50. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records
Document | Accession Number: 2008.19 | RG Number: RG-67.012
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2006
…War relief--France.…
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 …, Archivist Processing and digitization of the collection funded by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, France…