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Documentation regarding the membership of Maurice Moshe Gryman, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1919, in the French underground during World War II, 1945-1962

Documentation regarding the membership of Maurice Moshe Gryman, born in Przytyk, Poland, 1919, in the French underground during World War II, 1945-1962 - Political Deportee's card issued by the Office of Veteran Soldiers and War Victims Affairs in France, April 1954; - Combatant's card and Underground Volunteer Combatant's card issued to Maurice Gryman by the National Office of Veteran Soldiers and War Victims in Grenoble, 1956; - Card issued by the Office for Prisoners', Deportees' and Refugees' Affairs attesting to Gryman's return to his native country within the Displaced Person's framework; -...

File Number : 761

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : French, German

Memoirs of Marcel Szainiak Chagnac, born in Poland in 1922, a resident of Nancy, France, regarding his experiences during the war

File Number : 6626

Type of Material : Telegram, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : French, German

Testimony of Suzanne Moch, born in Paris, France, 1893, regarding her experiences in Drancy camp and Birkenau

Testimony of Suzanne Moch, born in Paris, France, 1893, regarding her experiences in Drancy camp and Birkenau Arrest on a Paris street, 22 June 1944; deportation to the Drancy camp; remains there for two days with 1,200 Jewish families; transfer to Birkenau, including five days of travel; receives a shirt once in two months; ban on washing; selections lasting eight hours every 15 days; sadism and sexual abuse of the women; labor assignments and flogging of women equal to that of the men in the camp.

File Number : 447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimonies, diaries and memoirs regarding Auschwitz, Drancy, Gurs and more

Testimonies, diaries and memoirs regarding Auschwitz, Drancy, Gurs and more Various testimonies regarding Gurs from: Rabbi L. Ansbacher, Ruth Rosenstein, Rudolf Sachs, Regina Sinsheimer (with details regarding Hardheim and a list of those who perished from Willy Wertheimer) and the diary of Albert Magsaman (also information regarding Brussels and Saint Cyprien) Also in the file: - Testimony taken from survivors regarding Drancy and Auschwitz, 01 April 1945; - Testimony of Dr. Ludwig Mann regarding bravery in Gurs, 1947; - Excerpts from a diary and memoirs of Vice Admiral de Penfentenyo, 08 February...

File Number : 267

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, French, German

Testimony of Yafa Ben-Yashar, born in Paris 1931, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lamarck, with a non-Jewish family in Villersnes; using a false identity in Dans-Le-Jura and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yafa Ben-Yashar, born in Paris, France, 1931, regarding her experiences in Paris, Lamarck, with a non-Jewish family in Villecresnes; using a false identity in Dans-Le-Jura and other places Religious family; attends school; move to Trouville; attitude towards the German refugees. Outbreak of the war; her father is drafted into the French Army; German occupation; escape to a village in Normandy; return to Trouville; move to Paris; deportation of her mother and sister as non-Jews to Lamotte-Beuvron concentration camp; summer camp for Jews near Paris, from July 1942; life in the Rothschild...

File Number : 5339

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of A. Meitlis, regarding his deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz via Nice

Testimony of A. Meitlis, regarding his deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz via Nice Detention of the Jews in the south of France by the Gestapo, winter 1943; deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz via Nice; travel conditions during the deportation; camp life during his first days in camp.

File Number : 222

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation regarding the Righteous among the Nations from France, Robert Bengel, Edmond Dauphin and Germaine Ribière; documentation regarding Paul Recht, who perished in the Holocaust

Included in the file: - correspondence of Dr. Gaston Lévy, his wife Renée and their daughter Annette Chouraqui regarding the Righteous Among the Nations; - documentation related to the case of the "Finaly" children; - documentation related to Paul Recht, born in Buenos Aires, a friend of Dr. Gaston Lévy and his wife, who was deported from Drancy camp to Auschwitz camp on 27 March 1944 in Transport no. 70 and perished; - play and poems by Paul Recht.

File Number : 678

Type of Material : Article, Invitation, Internet Material, Letter, Poems/songs, Biography, Declaration, Play, Speech, Newspaper Clippings

Language : French

Correspondence of Léo Cohn in Algeria, France, in detention in Toulouse and in Drancy camp in 1944, and letters and documentation related to Léo Cohn and the EIF

- letters and postcards written by Léo Cohn in Algeria during his service in the Foreign Legion, in various places in France in the years 1938-1944 and in prison in Toulouse and in the Drancy camp in 1944; - letters to Léo Cohn in France and letters concerning the Cohn family; - correspondence between Noémie Cassuto, other people in Israel, and pastor A. Maynadier in Lautrec in the years 2017-2020; Documentation concerning Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, his wife Rachel (Schloss), born in Hamburg in 1915 and their children Ariel and Noémie, issued in France, Algeria and Germany in 1930-1991: --...

File Number : 5200

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Invitation, Memoirs, Biography, Newspaper, Declaration, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Announcement, Medical Documentation, Poems/songs, Birth Certificate, Telegram, Postcard, Legal Documentation, Letter, Certification, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

The experiences of the members of the Parsimento family born in Turkey and France, who were arrested in France in 1942-1944

The experiences of the members of the Parsimento family born in Turkey and France, who were arrested in France in 1942-1944 - the experiences of Violette Parsimento Bar Siman Tov, born in Paris on 13 November 1925, and her family in the Holocaust. The experiences were written by family member Roi Bar Siman Tov in Jerusalem in 2019 and are based on his research: Violette’s parents: Haim Victor bar Siman Tov, born in Tiria, Turkey, and Sara; her sisters: Janine and Louise; emigration of Haim and his brother Raphael bar Siman Tov from Turkey to Paris in 1922; Raphael’s experiences: arrested in Paris in July...

File Number : 653

Type of Material : Biography

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, who perished in Auschwitz camp on 28 December 1944

The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, who perished in Auschwitz camp on 28 December 1944 - The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck on 15 October 1913, during the Holocaust; His experiences were written down by André Maynadier: His parents were Wilhelm and Miriam (Carlebach)Cohn; move from Hamburg to Paris in 1933; establishment of Jewish Scouts movement in France by the Éclaireurs Israélites de France or EIF, by Robert Gamzon, in 1923; Léo's activities within the EIF; his marriage to Rachel Schloss in 1935; aliya of Léo's parents to Eretz Israel; move to Strasbourg in 1938;...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Biography

Language : French

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