The Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection contains personal narratives by Maria and Sarah describing their experiences during the Holocaust. Three copies of a memoir written by Maria is comprised in this collection, including translations in Yiddish, English, and French. In it, Maria describes her and Sarah’s second arrest in 1944, their internment at Drancy, and deportation to Auschwitz. ...

Consists of one memoir, 11 pages, written by a friend of Simone Bowers, originally of Benfeld, France, based on notes of conversations about Simone's Holocaust experiences. The memoir describes Simone's childhood and the early days of the German occupation of Benfeld. In 1944, her parents were deported, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz, where they perished. Simone and her siblings were taken in ...

Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Klein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife Hedwig were able to emigrate to the United States after Ludwig, who was arrested on Kristallnacht, was released from Buchenwald. Includes documents related attempts to bring his brother, Josef, to the United States from France; as well as documents pertaining ...

Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "I was in Oświęcim," by Erna Low. In the memoir, written as she was traveling to the United States after the war, Mrs. Low describes her arrest and deportation in 1944, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz with her husband and daughter. All three survived the initial selection. Mrs. Low describes living and working conditions, her memory ...

Consists of a French birth certificate and period copy of an identity card issued to Jacqueline Frenkel, as well as a photograph of Jacqueline Frenkel as a child. The collection also includes a false identity document under the name 'Lucienne Geffroy' used by Ruchla Frenkel while in hiding.

Memoirs of a French Jewish physician, born in Lvov and living in France since the late 1920s. Caught by the Gestapo in 1943, he was sent to Drancy and later to Auschwitz, where he was interned in the barracks of "reserve physicians" and survived. In 1944 he was transferred to German camps. Most of the book deals with the period in Auschwitz. 206 pages ; 22 cm

Consists of pre-war and post-war (1930's-1950's) documents, photographs, a photograph album, and correspondence pertaining to Henri Moskow and his family. The collection includes pre-war family photographs, documents, and correspondence attesting to his resistance activities in France.

Memoirs of a French Jewish woman, written in 1946 and published in 1996 with only minute corrections. Maous, born in 1915, was arrested together with her husband in April 1944 in the remote village of Lamastre, sent to Drancy, and deported from there in May 1944 to Auschwitz. Maous worked in a kommando unit in Birkenau. She was hospitalized at the time of the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, ...

13:42 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; ...

Memoirs of a French Jew (b. 1915), a doctor, who was arrested by the militia in Nice in April 1944. She and her fiancé, Moussa Abadi, were accused of organizing the Marcel Network that, with the aid of the mayor and the Protestant churches, rescued 500 Jewish children. Odette was interned in Drancy and deported to Bergen-Belsen with Transport 1.200. Moussa was active in the underground until the end ...

During the years 1941 to 1943, Simon Fuks was the rabbi for the community of Agen in southern France.

The Krakowski family papers consists of one letter (in fragments) from Beaune La Rolande concentration camp, two photographs taken while in hiding on a farm, and six pre-war photographs of the the Krawkowski family.

Collectie 249-A1348: Dossier - Joden - vlucht naar het buitenland (aanvullingen)

Consists of one memoir, 24 pages, in French, entitled "When there is life, there is hope," by Marcel Chagnac, originally of Nancy, France. Mr. Chagnac was arrested in an attempt to escape to Switzerland in 1942 and was sent to Drancy. He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 and was quickly sent to the Goleszów (Poland) labor camp. He was forced to participate in a death march to Oranienburg ...

The Simon Drucker memoir consist of a single typed page relating Drucker’s arrest during the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup; his internment, escape, and re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and beginning his life again in Paris.

15:51 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Mrs. Alice Arnault, née Zohar, to the stand; the civil party presents herself to the court 15:52 Mrs. Arnault describes her arrest in July 1944, by a member of the Gestapo; he explained to her that she had been denominated by someone called 'Le Boiteux,' and that there was a 5,000 franc prize on her head; she was quickly transferred to Montluc, and then ...

17:03 President Cerdini resumes the hearing 17:05 Cerdini deposits into the record a magazine article written by Vergès in 1987, presented to the court by the prosecution 17:05 Cerdini calls another witness, Srul Kaplon, to testify, and he presents himself to the court; Mr. Kaplon is a civil party in the suit against Barbie 17:06 On March 23, 1943, the witness was taken by two Gestapo agents to the ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French ...

Traces the story of 44 Jewish children hidden in Izieu up to 1944 when they were deported to Auschwitz through Drancy. Recalls that it was the initiative of Pierre Laval of the Vichy government to deport the children under 16 years of age. Describes the activities of Sabine Zlatin, of Polish-Jewish origin, who rescued these children from various camps and hid them in Izieu. In April 1944 the children ...

Memoirs of a French Jew (b. 1937 in Avignon), who was granted access to the local archives in Le Pontet, Vaucluse in 1990. There he discovered that French collaborators were responsible for the arrest and subsequent deportation of his mother, Sarah (b. Goldstein, 1904). Lewendel's mother was transferred via Drancy to Auschwitz with transport 76, and perished in the gas chambers. His father, Meijlech ...

This collection contains correspondence and official personal documents of the Engelberg family.<br />

Copyright Holder: Mr. Gerard Lob