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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. Association des Juifs polonais en France, Paris (Fond 45)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.57 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.57
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1940
Alternate Title:
Association of Polish Jews in France
…Association des Juifs polonais en France, Paris (Fond 45)…
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 …Association des Juifs polonais en France, Paris (Fond 45) Association of Polish Jews in France RG-11.001M.57 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1939, when they immigrated to Belgium. Following the German invasion and occupation of Belgium and France in 1940, Isidor was arrested, as was his…
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 …’s internment by the Germans in France, 1940-1941. Languages: English, German, Polish, Yiddish. Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
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6. Ita Lew Bullard papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.493.1
… before and during the Holocaust in France.…
7. Abend and Getter families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.120.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1963
…, and both immigrated separately to France around 1925. They later married and lived together in Paris, France. Germany occupied France in June 1940, and…
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 … Galicia (Zolochiv, Ukraine), who were all in Paris, France during the Holocaust. Languages: Yiddish, English, Polish Administrative Information Access…
8. Binem Wrzonski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.131.1
…Contains approximately 33 postwar photographs of young Holocaust survivors, including Elie Wiesel, taken at the Ambloy children's home in France soon…
9. Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.156.1 | RG Number: RG-15.374
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1940
Alternate Title:
Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during…
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 … newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in…
10. Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.320.1 | RG Number: RG-67.065M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Alternate Title:
Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
…Kehillat Haharedim (France)…
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 … Rachel S. Harrison in April 2018. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Creator: Kehillat Haharedim (France) Title: Records of the Kehillat…
11. Selected Records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXVIII-CMXLII)
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0096.2 | RG Number: RG-43.082M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1985
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.…
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 … into France. CMXXIX‐2 [CMXXV‐107]: Oral history interview conducted by David Diamant with Gaston Grimbaum on 12 October 1966. CMXXIX‐3 [CMXXV‐110…
12. Bina Bojman Friedman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.201.1
… 1946-1947; Krakow in 1946; Paris and Combault, France in 1947.…
13. Jacques Schweitzer papers
2017.637.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2017.637.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1992
bulk: 1940-1948
…Jacques Schweitzer (born Jacques Swiczarczyk, 1923-2017) was born on 16 September 1923 in Paris, France to Bernard (later Bernard Schweitzer, 1890…
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 … of Jacques Schweitzer, originally of Paris, France, in the Forces françaises libres (Free French Forces). Included are identification papers, notebooks…
14. 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…
15. 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion poster owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.4
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 15
use: 1985
Artwork Title:
Anniversary Po'alei Zion
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
16. 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion poster owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.3
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 15
use: 1985
Artwork Title:
Anniversary Po'alei Zion
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
17. Flier for a United Jewish Socialist Party meeting owned by Moszek Brycman
2002.198.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.198.1
Date:
use: 1945 September 30
… acquaintance of Emanuel Ringelblum. In 1931 he immigrated to Paris, France, and the following year he married Marie Edelszein. Moishe continued his involvement…
18. Kaufman family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.422.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1988
… France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both…
19. Rainès-Lambé family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.37.1
… livelihood, and their efforts to evade Nazi collaborators and deportation in France during the Holocaust. Documents include an announcement for Leon to appear…
20. Jack (Isaac) Groner collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.231.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1946
…-Birkenau. Includes a passport issued to Jacques Isaac Groner on March 8, 1946; Jack, his parents and siblings survived in hiding in France.…
21. 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…
22. Oral history interview with Chaim Goldenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.263 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0263
Date:
interview: 1984 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to a prison camp in France; internment in a camp in Algeria in 1943; being sent to Siberia; war front in Romania; partisan activity; and political…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. Oral history interview with Henja Frydman
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.24 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0024
Date:
interview: 1946 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her family to Paris, France in 1931; her father’s clothing business; being a student prior to the German occupation of France in 1940; the drastic…
26. Oral history interview with Polia Bisenhaus
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.2 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0002
Date:
interview: 1946 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview on July 29, 1946, at the ORT training school, in Paris, France. He recorded the interview with Polia Bisenhaus…
27. Report from Drancy concentration camp
2019.229.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.229.1
Date:
creation: 1941 November 06
…Three typewritten pages documenting the first stages of the Holocaust of the Jews of France and the state of affairs within the Drancy concentration…
28. Selected Records of the David Diamant Collection from the Departmental Archives of the Seine‐Saint‐Denis,1906‐1986
Document | Accession Number: 2009.225 | RG Number: RG-43.121M
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1986
… Polish Jews in France from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, which helped Polish Jews financially and logistically after WW II. Most of the press publications from…
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 … were also many boxes containing the membership forms of the Organization of Polish Jews in France from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, which helped Polish…
29. Cup
2002.157.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.157.2
Date:
1941 May 21
… their experiences in France during the Holocaust…
30. Holocaust-era records of the Jewish Labor Committee
Document | Accession Number: 2001.6 | RG Number: RG-67.002M
Date:
1948-1956
Subtitle:
Child adoption case files
… support of each child. Some of these children were living in the Jewish Labor Committee-supported children's homes in France, Belgium, Palestine/Israel, and…
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 … child. Some of these children were living in the Jewish Labor Committee-supported children's homes in France, Belgium, Palestine/Israel, and Poland, and…
31. Wertheimer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.258.1
Date:
1925-1961
…World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France--Montpellier.…
32. Francie Alpert papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.274.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1949
…Francie Alpert (1931-2014) was born Fernande Waligora on 13 May 1931 in Paris, France to Szmul and Rose Waligora. Szmul Loeb Waligora (also referred…
33. 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…
34. Oral history interview with Edward Novakoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0409 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0044
Date:
interview: 1996 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 …,440 They were out of contact with the real world. 89 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,980 From the time you landed in France, so to speak, 90 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04…
35. Oral history interview with Mendel Herskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.8 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0008
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview with Mendel Herskovitz on July 31, 1946, at the ORT training school in Paris, France. He recorded the…
36. Oral history interview with Raisel Roset
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.3 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0003
Date:
interview: 1946 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview with Raisel Roset on July 30, 1946, at the ORT training school, in Paris, France. He recorded the interview in…
37. 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…
38. 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…
39. Markon family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1945
… and their son Alain during and after the Holocaust when the family left German occupied France for the United States.…
40. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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
41. Lisa Rosenblum letter
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0058 | RG Number: RG-10.054.01
Date:
creation: 1943
…Lisa Rosenblum (née Kouchelevitz, 1889-1943) was born in France in 1889 to Haim (1861-1941) and Miriam (1863-1960) Kouchelevitz. She married Henri…
42. Oral history interview with Kalman Eisenberg
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.10 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0010
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31-1946 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview with Kalman Eisenberg on July 31, 1946, and August 1, 1946, at Chateau de Boucicaut near Paris, France. He…
43. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (Fond 44)
Document | Accession Number: 2006.515.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.83
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1944
bulk: 1929-1940
Alternate Title:
Jewish National Fund, Paris (Fond 44)
… belonged to the Fund. The official organ of the JNF was the journal "Karnemu", and in France, the journal "La terre retrouve."…
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 … France and North Africa; name lists of "authorized representatives" and "members"; correspondence with other international Zionist organizations; and trip…
44. 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…
45. Oral history interview with Jurek Kestenberg
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.9 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0009
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David P. Boder conducted the interview with Jurek Kestenberg on July 31, 1946, at Chateau de Boucicaut near Paris, France. He recorded the interview…
46. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
… the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes wartime correspondence from family members who remained in Poland and perished…
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 … United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes…
47. Goldlust family papers
2002.471.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2002.471.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1997
bulk: 1939-1947
… Refugees but was living in London by 1941. In 1940 Manja, Leo, and Paula were deported to the Gurs internment camp in Southern France. In the spring of 1941…
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 … France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England…
48. Rose and Oscar Bender papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1945
bulk: 1938-1945
…, France, Geneva, Switzerland, and Russia. There are also letters received by Rose’s father, Joseph Magil, and her brother, Abraham Bernard Magil, both of…
49. Family planning pamphlet, Di bavustzinike shvangershaft, used by Dr. Henry Greenbaum
Object | Accession Number: 2019.624.4
Date:
publication: 1936-1937
Title:
Di bavustzinike shvangershaft
Subtitle:
yeder normale froy ken regulirn ir shvangershaft =Świadoma ciąża
… to France in 1927 to study engineering, but later switched to medicine. He met his wife Esther Stern (1909-1989) while he was a medical student. Henry…
50. Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.17.1 | RG Number: RG-68.213
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2007
bulk: 1940-1950
Alternate Title:
World Union OSE-Paris
… children in Vichy France during World War II. Once the war ended, OSE faced the daunting task of accompanying to adulthood the children who had been orphaned…
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 … en France; organisations juives; organisations non juives; branches OSE - Résumés du colloque de 1961 sur les conséquences pathologiques tardives chez…