For the first time Antoine Proust's seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with his classic account of war memorials, through to his pioneering study of the Rue de la Goutte d'Or, and finally his work on French Catholic families in the 1930s and 1940s, this book takes the reader through republican representations of war and peace, urban spaces ...

Contains materials pertaining to the persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the Département du Nord.

Pierre Saragoussi was born in Paris on 24 November 1937, the second child of Bitty and Allegre (nee Yomtov) Saragoussi, who had immigrated to France from Saloniki, Greece during the 1920s. His father worked as a merchant in Paris, and the family lived in an apartment in the XVIII arrondissement. With the outbreak of war in 1939, his father joined the Foreign Legion, but returned to Paris after the ...

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 ...

Documents, most from the Kingdom of Belgium, one from office of Field Marshal Montgomery, one from Jewish community of Belgium, dated 1945-1946, all honoring Julia Pierre, widow of Leon Nicaise, for her and her late husband's actions during the occupation of Belgium. Also includes a photo of Pierre with inscription of donor on verso, stating that Pierre saved her life, and photo reproduction of identity ...

The collection consists of eleven hand stamps, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gilbert Leidervarger, his wife Suzanne, and his in-laws, Lina, David, Robert, Nelly, and Rosette Donoff, when they were active in forgery activities for the French resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Mention obligatoire : Mémorial de la Shoah. Pas d'utilisation sans autorisation préalable.

The Hayat family papers comprise a birth certificate, residence certificate, driver's license, identification card, two food ration cards and three clothing ration cards.

Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the records to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the Second World War began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois ...

Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

"Annexes sur l'activité des délégations français à la Commission d'Armistice: Diverses protestations 'militaires.' Diverses protestations 'économiques'": p. [183]-213. 213 pages 25 cm

Translation of Prestupnye t︠s︡eli - prestupnye sredstva, a collection compiled through collaboration between the Otdel istorii Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭny Instituta marksizma-leninizma, the Glavnoe arkhivnoe upravlenie, and the Sovetskiĭ komitet veteranov voĭny. 320 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-359). 358, [7] pages ; 24 cm

436 pages 20 cm

After the German occupation of Belgium, Luxembourg, and northern France in spring 1940, tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fled tot he Unoccupied Zone of France, some thousands of them to the spa resort of Vichy. A few weeks later, remnants of the French government also relocated to Vichy. Many of the Jewish refugees greeted the arrival of Marshal Pétain, hoping for his protection. However, as this ...

1. Aufl. 184 pages ; 25 cm

Also published in French under title: Papy était-il un nazi? : sur les traces d'un passé de guerre. 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Discusses the fate of Jews from Germany and Central Europe in French internment camps between 1940-42. In France, between 1939-45 an internment system was created that comprised in the southern area alone about 400 camps, where 500,000 persons were detained. Aside from Spanish political prisoners and French communists, most internees were German-speaking Jews; after August 1942, 10,000 of them were ...

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of ...

Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near-defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep division of France during the Nazi Occupation, political reconstruction after 1944, de-colonization (with ...

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de la Réunion

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales du Finistère

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de l’Ardèche

Inventaire du Fonds Marcel Kirschen, FMC, s. d.