Georges Emile Léonard Theunis (1873- 1966) was the 24th Prime Minister of Belgium from 16 December 1921 to 13 May 1925 and again from 20 November 1934 to 25 March 1935. He was a governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) from1941 until 1944. During World War II he served as a special ambassador to the United States of America. In 1941, he was appointed agovernor of the National Bank of Belgium ...

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

210 pages ; 22 cm

Université de Paris I. 570 p. ; 25 cm.

Five postcards (containing the contents of three letters), sent by Henry Cohn, of Paris, from September - November 1944, to his uncle, Albert Cohn (the donor’s grandfather), in London. In the postcards, Henry Cohn describes some of his experiences during the German occupation of France, as well as what happened to his mother, Meta Johanna Cohn (1896-1942) who was deported to Auschwitz in July 1942. ...

Contains administrative records related to the internment camp in Le Vernet, France. Also contains records related to German war crimes committed in France and records related to Jews seeking refuge in France after 1936.

"On 22 June 1940 Marshal Philippe Pétain's newly-constituted French government signed an armistice with Hitler's Germany. At the same time, a relatively unknown Brigadier General named Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle fled to London. De Gaulle became the leader of the Free French movement, which resolved to continue fighting against the Axis powers in the name of France. It pursued this battle ...

The Ecole Nationale des Cadres was set up at the Chateau d'Uriage, in the Alps above Grenoble, to train an elite drawn from the young intelligentsia as part of a larger effort to transform the nation. In The Knight-Monks of Vichy France John Hellman describes the founding, operation, transformation, and demise of the school, details the institution's ideological and political struggles with other segments ...

Cat. no.: V32-66/1995. 48 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm

Based on the author's thesis Les camps français d'internement (1938-1946) (doctoral--Université Paris-I, 2000). 549 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The archival material covers the 19th and 20th centuries and includes the proceedings and decisions taken by the Metropolitan Council; general correspondence with the Greek authorities, foreign consulates, local ecclesiastical councils, other religious communities, as well as the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and individuals. Among other topics are the relations with the Jewish community and cases ...

Henri Gayot (1904–1981) was born in Panilleuse, France. His father was a veteran of World War I (1914-1918) and both parents were teachers. Henri obtained a degree as an art teacher in 1930. He taught at Fromentin Normal School in La Rochelle, where he lived with his wife and two sons. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and France declared war on Germany. Henri was mobilized into the ...

The letter was written by the Vichy General Commissioner to Berck Hercberg donor's father-in-law and pertains to the disposition of Jewish property in the Vichy zone of France.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-505) and index. 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and ...

47 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm

Consists of one French passport issued to Marcel Hodak, who was born on August 25, 1937 in Paris. The passport, which includes a photograph, was issued in June 1946.

Portfolio cover for a set of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly ...

Esther Bergman (née Stern) was born in Antwerp on 21 March 1935. After the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, her family fled to southern France, living in a village there until 1942. When the German occupation of Vichy France was imminent, her parents sent her to live with the Huguenot family of Odette Hofbauer, on a farm in St. Jean du Gard. Following the liberation of France in 1944, she and ...

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

This work tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. It provides a comprehensive survey of scholarship on France's role in the war. Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index. xvi, 202 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.

238 pages : facsimile ; 24 cm.

Contains documents collected by, and pertaining to, Dr. Benzion Boris Arkadevitch Tschlénoff, a Ukrainian-Jewish doctor employed by OSE Geneva. Dr. Tschlénoff's life's work was dedicated to the care of tubercular Jewish patients and to the care and rescue of Jews suffering under Nazi occupation.

<p>Order from the Führer des SS Oberabschnittes österreich, Vienna, to all SS units referring to an order of Gauleiter Buerckel that all section leaders were to be responsible for preventing actions by the SS against Jews and that if measures have to be taken against Jews these would be carried out by the authorities and the Gestapo.<br /></p><p>It bears a stamp (in French) of the U.S. 3^rd ...