Presents a list of Jews who were residing in the French Free Zone in 1942, compiled by Gobitz, a former deportee, from lists he found in regional archives. Traces the history of the internment of the Jews in the regions of the Free Zone, and depicts life in the internment camps there, classified by Department. Provides, with added commentary, original archival material from that period, including letters ...

Includes bibliographical references. 333 pages ; 24 cm

Describes a German family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust; author's childhood in Germany; anti-Jewish discrimination; relocation to France and subsequently within France; the family's internment in the camps of Limoges, Nexon, Gurs, and Drancy; hiding under assumed identities; and the fates of family members.

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Cette boîte d'archives regroupe plusieurs dons individuels ayant trait à une région particulière en France et à Monaco. Parmi la diversité des documents présents, l'on peut trouver des pièces concernant la déportation en Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Mayenne ou Saint-Etienne. En particulier, on trouve des listes de Juifs déportés de Monaco, de Moselle ou du Calvados ainsi que des travaux d'élèves de La Rochelle ...

Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album ...

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales de la Vienne

Consists of one typed memoir written by Felice Zimmern Stokes, who was born in Wallduern, Germany, in 1939. In the memoir, she describes her family's deportation to France to Camp de Gurs and being taken to the "La Pouponniere" OSE nursery in Limoges and from there, into hiding with the Patoux family on their farm in La Caillaudiere, France. After the war, Felice reunited with her sister Beate (who ...

La cote 109 W des Archives départementales de la Vienne ne correspond ni à un fonds, ni à un versement. Riche de 423 articles, représentant 23,6 mètres linéaires, cet ensemble de documents a été composé à partir de plusieurs versements effectués aux Archives par différents producteurs. On y trouve des documents produits par : -la préfecture de la Vienne (291 articles pour 15,54 mètres linéaires) – ...

This collection contains the personal archive of Raymond Leibovici, a French doctor of Romanian descent, who was instrumental in creating the wartime resistance network Comite Medical de la Resistance (CMR) in the highly conservative medical milieu. Included are biographical information; publications from the Comite national des medecins (1944-1948); the Editions de minuit; clandestine publications ...

René Goldman was born on March 25, 1934 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Wolf Goldman (b. May 9, 1911 in Wieruszów, Poland, d. January 1945) and Mirel (Mira) Shaindl Goldman (neé Arensztein, b. April 17, 1907 in Kalisz, Poland, d. after September 1942 in Auschwitz, Poland). Wolf and Mirel Goldman lived in Poland until around 1930, then moved to France and Luxembourg, where they were married in October, ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ruth Schloss (née Strauss), originally of Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Germany, including living as a hidden child in the La Guette children's home in France. Included are wartime photographs related to Ruth’s experiences in the French children’s homes, an identification card from Montauban, France, and a letter of recommendation written by Ernst ...

Simone Lipman (1920-2011) was born Simone Margaret Weil in Ringendorf (Bas-Rhin) to Abraham and Jeanne Weil. She moved to Strasbourg at age three with her parents and her brother, Roger. In 1941, Lipman began relief work with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) at the concentration camp at Rivesaltes. When Rivesaltes closed at the end of 1942, she began working at the Poulouzat children’s home near ...

La reproduction des documents est soumise à l'autorisation des Archives départementales de la Haute-Savoie. En cas de reproduction d'une ou plusieurs pièces, il conviendra de faire apparaître le nom du service dépositaire et la cote du ou des document(s). En cas de réutilisation avec diffusion publique, une autorisation de la direction des Archives départementales doit être sollicitée.

Ernest Ludwig Marx (nicknamed Ernie, 1925-2007) was born Ernst Ludwig Marx on 8 November 1925 in Gelnhausen, Germany to Siegmund and Bertha Marx. Siegmund Marx (1895-1942) was born on 7 May 1895 in Bönnigheim, Germany. He was a religious teacher and cantor, and was ordained a rabbi in 1936. Bertha Marx (1895-1991) was born Bertah Steinberger on 11 August 1895 in Dettelbach, Germany to Hermann Steinberger ...

Dr. Ralph Bloch was the son of two physicians: Dr. Jacques Bloch M.D., a surgeon who spent most of that time in military service and Dr. Charlotte Bloch-Springer M.D. was a medical resident during the war. They resided in Zurich, Switzerland. In mid-1938 or early 1939 the Jewish Community of Zurich organized vacation programs for Jewish children from Southern Germany. Ingrid Billigheimer, born on September ...

Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had ...

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Georgius Simon alias Georges Censer was born in Borgerhout, Belgium, on 13 August 1909 as the son of Polish diamond merchant Simche alias Simon Censer and his wife Paulina Mayer who had settled in Belgium in 1903 and 1906 respectively. During the First World War, Georges and his parents fled to Scheveningen in the Netherlands. Georges’ younger brother Samuel Censer was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, ...

Vera Lechtman (b. 1938) was born to Sioma (1916-1945?) and Tonia (nee Bialer,1918-1996) Lechtmann in Paris, France. Born in Dunajewce, Russia (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine), Sioma soon moved with his parents Israel and Feiga (nee Blatt) Lechtmann to Vienna, Austria. He had three sisters: Hava and twins, Luba and Buza. Following a period of increasing violence and the outbreak an Austrian civil war in 1934, ...