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281. Colored pencil drawing of barracks at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate
2004.233.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.5
Date:
creation: 1940 October-1941 September
Artwork Title:
Barracks at Camp de Gurs
… October 1940, Hanne and Ella were deported to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France near the Spanish border. While in the camp, Hanne met Max Liebmann, born in 1921…
282. Ernest Marx photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.177.2
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
… Kindertransport to France and was placed at Ecole Maimonides near Paris. His brother Julius took a train to Switzerland and remained there for the duration of the…
283. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had gone to the Caen prison camp in France; moving with his mother and sister to Paris, France but then traveling to Bordeaux because of the intense…
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 … into France later on. Q: Do you know much about your mother's family, what they did? A: No, not . . . Q: What kind of a town they lived in? A: They were…
284. Looking Back, But Not in Anger
Document | Accession Number: 2015.194.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2013-2013
Subtitle:
The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth
… May 1940, Herbert was arrested as an enemy alien and taken to St. Cyprien. He was transferred to Gurs in October 1940. In the spring of 1941, he was…
285. Pencil drawing of people crowded inside a barrack in Gurs created by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.2
Date:
creation: 1940 November 01-1940 December 31
Series Title:
Gurs Internment Camp, November 1940-January 1941
Artwork Title:
Barackeninneres
Alternate Title:
Barracks Interior
… transferred to Gurs internment camp, in Vichy France. Schwesig was also interned there from October 1940- February 1941. Gert worked as an artist in Gurs. On…
286. Oral history interview with Beatrice Pappenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.400.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0175
Date:
interview: 1990 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… house and onto a train in 1939; arriving in the Gurs camp and contracting dysentery; her transfer to the Rivesaltes camp; her mother placing her on a…
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 … after a while the train stopped and it was at the border of Germany and France. And then there was a voice over the loudspeaker and it said, if you have…
287. Drawing of a couple sharing bread through barbed wire in Gurs drawn by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.4
Date:
creation: 1940 November 01-1940 December 31
Series Title:
Gurs Interment Camp, November 1940-January 1941
Artwork Title:
Am Stacheldraht
Alternate Title:
At The Barbed Wire
… transferred to Gurs internment camp, in Vichy France. Schwesig was also interned there from October 1940- February 1941. Gert worked as an artist in Gurs. On…
288. Rene and Raya Karschon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.330.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
… Rene's imprisonment in Camp de Gurs in France and his subsequent escape to Switzerland (dated 1941-1942) and letters and postcards written to Raya Levin…
289. Child's watercolor of a house near a lake in the Alps by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.6
Date:
creation: 1944 April
Artwork Title:
Lakeside House, Maur, Switzerland, April 1944
… camp, and then Gurs, in southern France. A Dutch couple gave them money to hire a smuggler to take them to France with false papers. They went to…
290. Oral history interview with Herta Bregoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.799 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0799
Date:
interview: 1996 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… France; her father's death at Gurs; how her family was released in 1941 to Marseille; her family's immigration to the United States in 1941; her life in…
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 … to a-- we took the train to Bordeaux, and then my ex rented a car, and we drove across Southern France and saw these places and saw Gurs. The camp was…
291. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.226.1
… October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In…
292. Oral history interview with Leo Dreyfuss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.149.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0961
Date:
interview: 2018 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to Dachau and was released with the promise that he would soon leave Germany; the family’s deportation from Germany to France, where they were first…
293. Oral history interview with Ernest Weil
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.588 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0588
Date:
interview: 1990 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cuba, being turned back and sent to a home for children in Enghein, France; and his parents' experiences in Gurs concentration camp in France, where his…
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 … were taken from Landau to Marinheim across the Rhine and then after kind of skipped sorre of the time then after the war was over with France they were…
294. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… camp, and then Gurs, in southern France. A Dutch couple gave them money to hire a smuggler to take them to France with false papers. They went to…
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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…
295. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
… moved to the Netherlands, and then to Paris. In 1940, Helene was imprisoned for stealing military supplies and later kept as a foreign prisoner at Gurs…
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 …. Engelhardt, Helene. Spivack, Joseph. Spivack, Gladys. Spivack, Sherry. Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (France) Gurs (Concentration camp) Mouzinho (Ship) United…
296. Child's drawing of 2 houses near the mountains by a German Jewish refugee
2013.486.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.486.7
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Swiss cottages, 1944
… camp, and then Gurs, in southern France. A Dutch couple gave them money to hire a smuggler to take them to France with false papers. They went to…
297. Oral history interview with Lore Gilbert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.31 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0031
Date:
interview: 1992 March 10
interview: 1992 April 08
interview: 1992 November 10
interview: 1992 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to France; their experiences in Gurs concentration camp; the family's selection by the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA) to be sent…
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 …:19,279 Did you ever return to France? 53 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:20,600 To Gurs or any of those places? 54 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,070 No, no, no. 55…
298. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
… internment as a political prisoner in Holocaust-era concentration camps in France including Noé, Gurs, Saint-Cyprien, Nexon, as well as the Fort de Romainville…
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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…
299. Oral history interview with Lore Gilbert
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.824 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0824
Date:
interview: 1992 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… France, and their experiences in Gurs concentration camp. Ms. Gilbert discusses the family's selection by The Dominican Republic Settlement Association…
300. Oral history interview with Paula Goldlust Blue
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.46 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0537
Date:
interview: 2009 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gurs (Concentration camp)…
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 … 1940 the Jews, who had already been crammed into a small area, were sent to Gurs in France. She describes poor conditions there, with rats, lice and…