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George Blau (Vienna, Austria, 17 Nov. 1911-1999) was born to a Jewish family. He left Austria at an unknown date and settled in Marseille, France, where the authorities picked him up and had him interned in Les Milles, France. Released on 18 Sept., 1939, he was interned again, from May to Aug. 1940. At the end of Mar. 1941, Blau fled to Martinique, then to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, ...

Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French police and imprisoned in Gurs concentration camp after France's surrender to Germany. He was imprisoned in Gurs from October 1940 through the summer of 1942, where he kept a diary. In 1942 he was transferred to Les Milles concentration camp. He escaped ...

Testimony. Typescript, 15 pages in French, and 13 pages in English translation. Recollections of Gergette Donnier, who was married to a doctor who tried to treat internees at Les Milles, and who helped Tribbitt's grandparents (the Fischbachs) leave Les Milles and ultimately immigrate to the U.S.

Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's ...

Kurt Rosenthal worked as a banker in Berlin, Germany. In 1933, he left Berlin and moved to France. Rosenthal was interned in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps in France as an “enemy alien.” His son is Robert Ronald.