False identification card issued to a French Jew by the Resistance

Object | Accession Number: 1991.70.1

Date: issue: 1943 November 20
Geography: issue: Paris (France)
Language: French
Classification: Identifying Artifacts
Category: Labels
Object Type: Identification cards (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Claudine Cerf

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Physical Description: issued to Cypora Cerf, born Salit on 12 January 1916 in Wilno, Poland. Card has a perforated inscription, "JUIF" [Jew].
Dimensions: overall: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 5.880 inches (14.935 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, metal, adhesive, gelatin silver print
Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The identification card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Claudine Cerf.
Additional Accession Number: 1991.0070
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Cippora Cerf in France during the Holocaust.

Date: 1941-1944

Cecile Cerf papers

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Rubber stamp used by the French resistance to falsify documents

Object

French resistance Rubber stamp used by Cecile Cerf in the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France, c. 1942-1944. Used by Cecile Cypora Cerf (donor's mother), 1942-1944, France.