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Rabbi Bernard Schonberg, born in Lichagora, Poland, 1908; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Rabbi Bernard Schonberg, born in Lichagora, Poland, 1908; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Appointment as Assistant Rabbi in Lyons, 1936; Aumonerie Generale Israelite (General Jewish Chaplaincy) activities; help to refugees including visits to hospitals and prisons; detention in Amberieu En Bugey, 26 May 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943; death from exhaustion in Auschwitz, 06 February 1944; awarded the Medaille de la Resistance. In the file: - Photograph of Rabbi Bernard Schonberg; - Testimonies; - Page of...

File Number : 173

Type of Material : Speech, Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents, Excerpt(s), Photograph, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French

Simone (Levy) Hirschler, born in Mulhouse, France, 1911; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Simone (Levy) Hirschler, born in Mulhouse, France, 1911; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Marseilles with her husband, Rabbi Rene Hirschler; her husband's activities as Chief Rabbi of the camps in France; rescue activities with her husband; arrested by the Gestapo with her husband, 23 December 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; perishes in Auschwitz with her husband; awarded the Croix de Guerre. In the file: - Photograph of Simone Hirschler; - Documents; - Personal documents; - Testimonies.

File Number : 101

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French

Lists of detainees from two forced labor companies in the Indre region, 1943

Lists of detainees from two forced labor companies in the Indre region, 1943 The list was compiled by Rabbi Monheit, the chaplain, who lived in La Chatre in the Indre region.

File Number : 120

Type of Material : List of Camp Inmates

Language : French

Rabbi Elie Leopold Bloch, born in Dambach La Ville, France, 1909; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Rabbi Elie Leopold Bloch, born in Dambach La Ville, France, 1909; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities as a young rabbi in Metz; evacuation to Poitiers; activities on behalf of inmates of the camps with help from other Jews and the Red Cross; help to foreign and French Jewish children; obtains the release of children from the camps and spreads them out within the local Jewish community; deportation with his wife, Georgette, and their daughter, Myriam, to Auschwitz, 17 December 1943; awarded the Legion of Honor. In the file: - Portraits; -...

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : French

Documentation regarding illegal aliya ships from Bulgaria

Documentation regarding illegal aliya ships from Bulgaria Report issued by the Central Consistory regarding the circumstances of the sinking of the illegal immigrant ship, "Salvador", including preparation of the ship and its passengers, and the reasons for its sinking, January 1941; - Correspondence (by telegram) between Haim Eshaya in Burgas and the Jewish community in Vidin regarding attempts to organize illegal immigrant ships to Eretz Israel, May 1944.

File Number : 40

Type of Material : Telegram, Investigation Report

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation of the Central Consistory in Sofia regarding the proposal of the Law for Protection of Nation, 1940

Documentation of the Central Consistory in Sofia regarding the proposal of the Law for Protection of the Nation, 1940 Two protest appeals made by the Central Consistory to the Chairman of the [Bulgarian] Parliament opposing proposal of the Law for Protection of the Nation.

File Number : 31

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation belonging to Maurice Marcus, 1930-1949

Documentation belonging to Maurice Marcus, 1930-1949 Documentation according to dates until his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948, arranged and submitted by Maurice Marcus: 1. Correspondence with Julius Orlow in Zurich regarding the lives of the Jews deported from Sofia to Lom including travel restrictions and photographs (p. 245), 1943-1944; persecution of the Jews in Bulgaria; a call from the Red Cross for help; 2. Correspondence with Julius Orlow and personalities and organization bureaus including those in Istanbul, Paris, London, New York and Jerusalem as Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)...

File Number : 18

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, English, German

Documentation of the Jewish community and the Central Consistory in Sofia, 1942-1944

Documentation of the Jewish community and the Central Consistory in Sofia, 1942-1944 - Certificates issued by the community and the Central Consistory regarding the submitting of property reports; - Certificates regarding the Jewish origins of the immigrants from Romania, Austria and Hungary, November-December 1944. Also in the file: Photocopy of a postcard sent by Haim Yuda Levi from Plovdiv to a travel agency in Berlin regarding his mother who had emigrated from Stip, 1944.

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Postcard, Certification

Language : Bulgarian, German

Book written by Benjamin Arditti on the role of King Boris III in the deportation of Bulgarian Jewry

File Number : 317

Type of Material : Document, Book

Language : Bulgarian

Protocols of the district Zionist Committee's meetings in Sofia, 07-09 July 1903

File Number : 315

Type of Material : Protocol

Language : Bulgarian

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