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

Describes the internment camp in Les Milles in the south of France, based on testimonies of survivors (or their families) and archival material. Set up in September 1939, it served at first as a military camp. After 1940 it was a camp for foreigners who sought asylum in France, including Jews. Between 3 August-10 September 1942 it served as a transit camp for Jews sent to Auschwitz via Drancy. Includes ...

Alwin Goldschmied, was arrested in April 1938 by the Gestapo and eventually perished in Auschwitz having reached there via Drancy. The daughter, the depositor, Ellinor, came to England in 1939 with the assistance of the Quakers. Maria Goldschmied seems to have spent the majority of the war in a small town called Stiefern with relatives some 90 km from Vienna. In August 1946 she came to England.

This collection contains records of the internment and forced labor of Roma in the rural area of the Yonne; the former Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes train station, used to intern refugees from the Spanish Civil War and subsequently Roma; the internment in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens of Jews, Roma, and foreigners expelled from coastal "zones interdites"; the internment in Vaudeurs of "subversives" and black-marketeers; ...

Raymond Berr, French Jewish, was born in 1888. Right out of the school, he became professor of geology at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne. He served in the First World War and afterwards became CEO of Kuhlmann and in 1933, Managing Director and Executive Vice President. In 1940 he was no longer allowed his position at the company and for a few months in 1942, he was arrested but later released. ...

A collection of brief texts, most of them previously presented by Stern (a Holocaust survivor and Lacanian psychoanalyst) at seminars held in Paris from 1979 on, on "Camps, History, and Psychoanalysis". Pp. 55-102 contain texts written by Stern in 1945, immediately after her liberation, which describe the deportations and her experiences in Drancy, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz. Pp. 105-113 deal with ...

Consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Klubski (Klubsky) family, originally of Paris, France via Łódź, Poland. Herman (Hercko/Hertz) Klubski and his wife, Bella Shapshak, had three children, twins Marie (later Marie Benson) and Henri (Aron/Ari) and daughter Lily (later Lily Nathan). Henri, a soldier in the French army (who received the ...

The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United ...

Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the ...

Mimeographed names lists, of Jews in Łódź ghetto in 1944, compiled by Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, and another of survivors registered in Łódź in July 1945, from Jewish Immigrant Aid Society in Canada, and similar list from Lwow, 1945 (partial). Also contains clipping from a high school newspaper in Fort Worth (1953), TX, about student Frieda Weisblatt, a Holocaust survivor; a title page from a Hebrew ...