Letter sent by Sara Zubrickas in the Pithiviers camp to her sister Dora (Zubrickas) Tannenbaum in Paris, 22 October 1941, and documentation regarding their brother Maurice Zubrickas who was in the Stalag II A POW camp during the war
Documentation regarding Maurice Zubrickas (original):
- Reply letter from the Central Agency for Prisoners of War in Geneva to Ms. Wieviorka in Paris according to which Maurice Zubrickas was in the Stalag II A POW camp in Germany, September 1940;
- Participation card in the population census issued to Maurice Zubrickas, 06 May 1945;
- Booklet granting benefits in receiving...
File Number : 2238
Type of Material : Genealogy, Personal Documents, Letter, Official Documentation
Documentation regarding Ernest Kopstein and his family members, including a letter written by Poli Kopstein in Vienna to his son Ernie in France, documentation regarding the experiences of Ernest Kopstein during the war written by his niece, genealogy of the family and more, 1941-2010
Letters:
- Letter from Poli Leopold Kopstein in Vienna to his son Ernie Ernest Kopstein in the Chateau de Magiller, France (in German), 20 April 1941;
- Letter from US Army Sergeant Emil Wetzler (nephew of Poli Kopstein), stationed in Czechoslovakia, to his uncle Ede in the United States (in English), 08 July...
File Number : 2213
Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Documentary, Genealogy, Letter
Memoirs of Rachel Iskoviez, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences in southern France, Rivesaltes, in an OSE children's home and in a monastery using a false identity
The German occupation; escape of the family to southern France; life in the home of local non-Jews; German occupation; deportation of Jews to the Rivesaltes camp; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the camp by her father; his transfer to the Gurs camp; entrusting of Rachel to the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE-Organization to Save the Children) organization and her transfer to a children's home with her brother, Danny;...
Personal documentation and letters of Wolf Fajwel Zylbersztejn, born in Garwolin, Poland, 1909, and his wife Bajla Furman Zylbersztejn, born in Warsaw, 1932 - 1943
Immigration of the Zylbersztejn couple to Paris, 1930; birth of his son Jean, 1932; birth of their son Andre, 1938; birth of their daughter Therese Nicole, 1940; draft of Wolf to the French Army; transfer of Wolf to Pithiviers camp, 1941; deportation of Wolf to Auschwitz on transport 6; death of Wolf in Auschwitz, 15 January 1943; survival of Bajla in Paris; transfer of the sons to a children's house in Paris; in hiding of the sons in Nogent...
File Number : 1829
Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Memoirs
Kristallnacht in 1938; father arrested and sent to Dachau; Jews of Baden district sent to the Gurs camp in November 1940; bringing a Torah scroll into the camp; taking care of parents; children released under protection of the Quakers in February 1941; life in a children's home in Aspet; German occupation of the Free Zone of France in 1942; receiving information about parents' deportation; placed in a residence in Moissac; finding a temporary hideout in the mountains; resistance activity in the area; liberation in summer 1944; immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Tel Hai in 1946; adjustment to life in Eretz...
Last letter sent by Siegfried Bodenheimer from Les Milles camp to his son Ernst Bodenheimer who was staying in an orphanage in Montintin (translated to Hebrew), 18 May 1942
The original letter was sent in German by Siegfried Bodenheimer, before his deportation to Auschwitz camp where he was murdered; aliya of his son Ernst to Eretz Israel, where he changed his name to Eliezer Ben-Yehoshua; Eliezer lived on Kibbutz Shluchot, where he died; the testimony was submitted to Yad Vashem by his sister, Ilana Yaron.
Testimony of Frida (Steinberg) Orman, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, regarding her experiences in Vienna, in hiding in Brussels, in Montegut Plantaurel, using a false identity in Grenoble, and in other places
Life before the war; she attends a state school; Anschluss;
Deportation of her father to Dachau camp; deportation of Jews who are originally from Poland to the Polish border; escape to Brussels; they find a hiding place in the home of the Toutenel family with the help of the French underground; they receive a warm [positive] treatment from the Toutenel family; her mother escapes to Antwerp;...
Documentation belonging to Samuel Troper, Aldolphe Troper, Marianne Hertz, Georges Hertz, and Fany Troper, 1940-1949
Personal documentation of Georges Hertz, director of an orphanage in Beaulieu Sur Dordogne, 1942; documentation of his daughter, Marianne; personal documentation of Adolphe Troper from the time he lived in La Chatre, 1943; personal documentation of his son, Samuel from after the war; letter written by Fany Troper in Vichy to her husband who was detained in the Hochfelden camp, 1941.
The documentation includes:
- Certificate attesting to Georges Hertz's membership in the Union Generale des...
File Number : 526
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card, Letter
Memoirs of Odette (Latowicz) Szyper, born in Paris, France, 1928, regarding her family's experiences and her experiences in Paris
Deportation of her father from Drancy to Auschwitz on Transport Number 11, 27 July 1942; her father's arrival in Auschwitz, 29 July 1942; deportation of her mother, brother, Henri, and sister, Suzanne, to Drancy on Transport Number 46, 09 February 1943; deportation to Auschwitz, 11 February 1943.
Life in Paris from June 1940; deportation of the family to Drancy, and from there to Auschwitz, 1942-1943; imaginary letter written to her father regarding her experiences in France...
File Number : 8281
Type of Material : Correspondence, Speech, Memoirs
Life before the war in parents' home; membership in the Adas Yisroel congregation; refutes from Eastern Europe arrive in 1938; city evacuated; witness escapes with family to Vichy; family receives a permit to stay there as refugees from Alsace-Lorraine; helped by the Jewish community; father inducted into the French Army in December 1939; French Army surrenders and Germans capture father; witness placed in an OSE childrens's home in theChateau de Morelles in Brout-Vernet; home managed by Dr. Alexandra Bass; attends school; father returns from internment in December 1941; German army invades French free zone in...