An extensive literature portrays Harry Bingham, who served as American vice consul in Marseille, France between 1936 and 1941, as the single American diplomat who defied the Department of State's restrictive policy toward European Jewish refugees. However, empirical evidence does not always support what many now assume about Bingham's efforts. Examining Bingham's personnel file and his career at the ...

Collectie 250k: Concentratiekampen buiten Nederland Auschwitz Repatriëring

Nederlandse Ambassade in Frankrijk te Parijs, 1943-1955; Consulaat te Parijs, 1945-1954; Nederlandse Missie te Parijs > CONSULAAT TE PARIJS (1945-1954) > REPATRIATIE UNRRA EN ONDERSTAND > Correspondentie met het consulaat-generaal te Marseille over de vrijlating en repatriëring van Nederlanders uit concentratiekampen,

Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken te Londen (Londens Archief) > Gewoon of groot archief > Economische Oorlogsvoering (GrA/EZ/CHZ/O) > Stukken betreffende het voorkomen dat de in Marseille in beslag genomen paketten dollarbiljetten en effecten, die vóór 10 mei 1940 verzonden zijn door Amerikaanse bankinstellingen aan Nederlandse banken, in handen komen van de vijand.

Ministerie van Handel, Nijverheid en Landbouw te Londen > SECTOR HANDEL, NIJVERHEID EN SCHEEPVAART > M Monetaire en financiële kwesties > Stukken betreffende instemming met de opvatting van de minister van Justitie om de in Marseille gestrande pakketten met dollars, die bestemd zijn voor geadresseerden in bezet Nederland te zenden naar de nieuwe adressen buiten Nederland of over te dragen aan de Legatie ...

Collectie 077: Generalkommissariat für das Sicherheitswesen (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Nord-West) Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei Polizei-Waffenschule IV Maastricht

bevat Franstalige notities over Georgette Madeleine Cathelin en aangiftemeldingen tegen NSB'ers van 9 augustus 1945

Tekst in het Duits en Nederlands. - Uitg. naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling 'De keizer aan de Keizersgracht, Wilhelm II en de fotografie als PR-instrument' in huis Marseille, stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam (31 augustus - 24 november 2002). 191 p. : foto's. ; 28 cm

Collectie 503: Boetzelaer - de Beaufort, M.A. barones van

Correspondence, circulars, press clippings, and publications related to the persecution of Jews in Germany, German minorities in Poland, the Polish minority in Germany, repression against Polish citizens, the census in Germany, Ukrainians in France, and guidelines on tracking the activities of organizations. Also included are the instruction of the Polish Embassy in Paris (1938), reports of consulates ...

Met literatuuropgave, register. 251 pagina's : illustraties ; 23 cm

Born in Russia in 1897, Roman Vishniac was a biologist by training, having earned a doctorate in zoology and a medical degree from Moscow universities and a doctorate in Oriental art from the University of Berlin. For many years he was prevented from working in any of those fields because of war, revolution and political persecution. He instead pursued a career in microphotography, the photographing ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. xv, 476 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm

"Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of P?re Marie-Beno?t, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, P?re Marie-Beno?t ...

Consists of 41 photographs taken by Saul Loeb, an officer in the United States Army and the assistant to Chaplains Morris Kertzer and Isidore Breslau in Marseille, France. The photographs, taken in the spring of 1945, depict Jews in Marseille, refugees emigrating to Palestine, scenes of Passover, and the Army chaplains. Also includes one scrapbook of photographs of Passover in Marseille, 1945. Most ...

Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in 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 May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received ...

Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David ...

This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal ...

The Hiram and Rose Bingham collection consists of correspondence, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting Hiram Bingham's efforts to assist refugees while serving as Vice Consul at the American Consulate in Marseilles. Among the papers are photographs of lines of refugees at the American Consulate in Marseilles, the concentration camp at Gurs, and Marc Chagall, and a letter from Varian ...

The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took ...

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, where the authorities picked him up and had him interned in Les Milles, France. Released on 18 Sept., 1939, he was interned again, from May to Aug. 1940. At the end of Mar. 1941, Blau fled to Martinique, then to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, ...