Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; ...

Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken te Londen (Londens Archief) > Geheim archief > Centrale Inlichtingen Dienst (GA/BK/VIII) > Stukken betreffende een verzoek van kolonel C.J. Warners aan de tijdelijk zaakgelastigde te Lissabon om in code Laura aan journalist J.W. Kolkman te Perpignan te seinen over een bezoek van een Engelsman met inlichtingen voor Kolkman en Van Oud.

Verkort archief Bureau Inlichtingen > Inlichtingengroepen (RB t/m RV dossiers) > RS: Groep Somer / Nauta - Verslag dr. J.M. Somer, 10 september 1942 - Aanvulling dd. 18-02-1950 - Verslag Sjoerd Nauta - Rapport J.G. van Niftrik te Putten - Aanvulling d. 10-03-1950 - Verslag G.A. de Jong - Verslag mr. F.N.F. van der Schrieck, Den Haag - Rapport over convooi Hollanders Perpignan-Barcelona

Tekening in zwarte inkt getiteld 'De avonturen van een Engelandvaarder'. In twaalf illustraties met onderschrift zijn de lotgevallen van een Engelandvaarder afgebeeld. Getekend door M. Appelboom in Londen, juli 1943. 1. Illegaal passeren Nederlands/Belgische grens. 2. Nederlandse diplomaat in Vichy-Frankrijk zegt "Had maar in Holland gebleven''. 3. Vrijlating uit gevangenis in Lyon door hulp Nederlandse ...

Consulaat-generaal te Vichy (Frankrijk) > STUKKEN AFKOMSTIG VAN P.C. NAEFF, VOORMALIG DIRECTEUR VAN HET CASAN TE PERPIGNAN, ONBEZOLDIGD SECRETARIS VAN HET BUREAU D'ADMINISTRATION TE LYON, 1943 > Brieven ingekomen van en uitgegaan aan A. Aarts, J. ten Hagen, M.H.C. Janse, A. Mezger en J. van Praag, betreffende de belangenbehartiging van de in Zuid-Frankrijk verblijvende Nederlanders,

Foto van hotel Venetia op Boulevard Montparnasse in Parijs, met links het restaurant 'Au nègre de Toulouse'. Ongedateerde opname (rond 1950). Annika Neyssel was tijdens de oorlog betrokken bij de Dutch-Paris Line, een ontsnappingslijn voor Engelandvaarders, gestrande Engelse en Amerikaanse piloten, ontsnapte krijgsgevangenen en vluchtende Joden. Ze werden door passeurs vanuit Nederland of België naar ...

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Werner Jakubowski (1895-1942) was born August 30, 1895 in Berlin and served in the German Army during WWI. His wife Wally (or Willly, 1896-1942) was born Wally Wolf on July 15th 1896 in Rottweil. They had two children, Ruth Henriette Gottlob-Jakubowski (1922-?) and Walter (later Walter Jaye, 1925-2020). The family relocated to Belgium in 1933 or 1934 following the Nazi rise to power in Germany. Werner ...

Archief van Eduardus Antonius Barten, geboren 4 januari 1919. E.A. Barten was student in Amsterdam. Hij werd in 1941 gezocht door de Sicherheitspolizei en de Sicherheitsdienst, wegens anti-Duitse activiteiten. Hij besloot naar Engeland te vertrekken en vanuit daar de vijand te bestrijden. Hij ondernam verschillende pogingen om met een boot de Noordzee over te varen. Deze pogingen mislukten allemaal, ...

Natan Lakhovitzky (born, Simferapol, 17 August 1902, died 24 August 1992) and Vera Lakhovitzky, nee Strachinsky (born Odessa, 1 February 1905, died 24 May 1973) left the Soviet Union in January 1927. Since they were unable to obtain a rabbinical wedding there in Russia, they were married in Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 June 1927, and immigrated to France the following year, arriving in Strasbourg in October ...

Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), was a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, 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 Spanish and Maternité Suisse d'Elne in French). Between 1939 and 1944, she saved some 600 children who ...

The papers consist of a letter written by Rabbi Moise Cassorla on September 8, 1941, attesting to a Bar Mitzvah ceremony to take place in Toulouse, France on September 20, 1941; a telegram sent to Sabina Fischler [donor's mother] by Jacob Fischler and his brother, Alexander; an identification tag from the American Joint Distribution Committee worn by Jacob Fischler (#43) and issued in Barcelona, Spain; ...

Consists of identity cards, photographs, and documents related to Willem and Helene Ginsburg Friedman, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. They were able to emigrate through France to Portugal, using visas provided by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and then to escape to the United States in 1940. Includes pre-war passports, safe conduct passes, pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs.

The Alexander Dallin papers document Alexander Dallin and his family’s escape from Europe between 1939 and 1940 and their immigration to the United States through autobiographical materials, family trees, photocopies of certificates and letters, newspaper clippings, and some original documentation. The collection contains a draft of Dallin’s incomplete autobiography-- split into two chapters-- a copy ...

The Albert Garih testimonies consists of two testimonies written by Albert Garih in 2000 and updated in 2011. The first testimony describes Albert Garih’s personal experiences as a hidden child in France. The second testimony describes the experiences of Benjamin Garih, Albert’s father, who was sent to a forced labor camp on the Channel Islands.

Elisabeth alias Liesje Andriesse was born on 5 July 1908 in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, as the eldest child of Julius Andriesse (born on 30 June 1875 in Vlissingen) and Ella van der Wijk (born on 19 June 1879 in Assen, the Netherlands). Elisabeth had a younger brother called Louis alias Lou Andriesse who was born on 5 March 1913. Elisabeth's father Julius owned the Central Clothing Warehouse [Centraal ...

Archief van J. Buyser. J. (Jan) Buyser, geboren 8 juli 1920 - overleden 17 september 2003. Engelandvaarder. Jan Buyser studeerde aan het begin van de oorlog weg- en waterbouwkunde aan de MTS in Rotterdam. Zijn school was afgebrand door het bombardement, maar toch werden de lessen direct na de capitulatie hervat. In juni 1942 deed hij eindexamen en ging vervolgens studeren aan de TH in Delft. Op 5 februari ...

Josek alias Joseph Kichka was born in Skierniewice, Poland, on 15 March 1900. He held Polish nationality and became a tailor. During the First World War he was held at a detention camp for civilian prisoners in Havelberg, Germany. In November 1918, Josek clandestinely fled from Germany to Belgium. When he was tracked down by the immigration authorities in Brussels in February 1919, Josek was transferred ...

The collection pertains to the activities of the American, British, and French Quakers in France and North Africa, from 1933-1950. The collection encompasses the Paris-based office of the Commissioner for Europe, the AFSC's liaison with the Allied occupation governments in Germany, Austria and North Africa as of 1943; and the Quaker delegations in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach ...