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Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received ...

Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David ...

This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal ...

The Hiram and Rose Bingham collection consists of correspondence, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting Hiram Bingham's efforts to assist refugees while serving as Vice Consul at the American Consulate in Marseilles. Among the papers are photographs of lines of refugees at the American Consulate in Marseilles, the concentration camp at Gurs, and Marc Chagall, and a letter from Varian ...

The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took ...

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, ...

Issue 166, Part 3: Good aerial shots of American staging area of tents, equipment. GIs loaded into transport, then board ship in Marseilles for war in Pacific. Served food by Red Cross worker. Men line rails of ship. LS, ship pulls out.

Carel Sternberg was a Czech law student in France when the Germans took over the country. He fled Paris on a bicycle just ahead of the German Army. He was already a part of the International Relief Association when he partnered with Varian Fry and became a central player in the Marseille, France, operation of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Carel Sternberg continued a life-long association with what ...

Collection consisting of 11 letters and one postcard received by Gertrude Rubin [donor's mother] while she was living in hiding in France, after she was able to leave the Rivesaltes internment camp with help from the French resistance. Collection includes letters and a postcard written by Selma Rubin [donor's grandmother] to her daughter, sent from Rivesaltes internment camp in France, June-July 1942; ...