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Letters of Georges Joe Zilberstein in Boisset, France, 1944; fake documentation and documentation of the fate of members of the Zilberstein family

Letters of Georges Joe Zilberstein in Boisset, France, 1944; fake documentation and documentation of the fate of members of the Zilberstein family The letters were written on February 9–September 1944: - letters from Georges Zilberstein to hisdaughter, Olga Ozi Zilberstein, in 1960–1983 and include, inter alia, memoirs of the Holocaust era Georges, his son Michel, and his daughter Olga hid in with the Danguiral family of Boisset, France, during the war, under the alias of Gilbert. His wife Betty and his young son Harvey were supposed to move to Boisset as well but remained in Paris; arrested and deported,...

File Number : 5576

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Letter, Certification

Language : French, English

Testimony of Uzi von Straten, born in 1940 in Paris, about being hidden by a French family at a flour mill in Boisset during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Uzi von Straten, born in 1940 in Paris, about being hidden by a French family at a flour mill in Boisset during the war Family lives in the 17th arrondissement in Paris; father works for the French broadcasting authority; father escapes at once when the deportations begin; father hides with mediation of the French Resistance; witness and brother join their father in hiding; mother and another brother deported to Drancy; witness placed in hiding in Boisset at a flour mill owned by the Danguiral family, subsequently recognized as Righteous among the Nations; life with the Danguirals until end of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew