Selected records of the Fonds Vanikoff from the French National Archives
Maurice Vanikoff was born in Russia in 1886. He fought in the First World War and obtained French citizenship in 1920. During the 1930’s, he became active in movements to defend the rights of political refugees and victims of anti-Semitism. During WW II, from 1940 to 1943, he was in Casablanca where he took up the cause of foreign Jews who volunteered and fought in WW I and II, but even though they ...
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