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Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Charleroi, Alba, Lyon, in hiding in a monastery and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Charleroi, Alba, Lyon, in hiding in a monastery and other places German Army occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape to France with her family, May 1940; German demonstrations in France, 1940-1942; family life in Alba; violin studies; her father's detention; invasion of the German Army, November 1942; move to Lyon; move to hiding place in a monastery with the intervention of Cardinal Gerlier; life in hiding in southern France, 1942; move to Montpellier, autumn, 1942; transfer to a monastery in Millau;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters written by Helene Rosenzweig in Paris, Angoulême, Poitiers camp and Angers, and on a deportation train from France, and sent to her family in Saint-Michel-de-Rivière, 1941-1942

Letters written by Helene Rosenzweig in Paris, Angoulême, Poitiers camp and Angers, and on a deportation train from France, and sent to her family in Saint-Michel-de-Rivière, 1941-1942 Letters written by Hélène Rosenzweig and sent to the Rosenzweig family (her parents, brother and sister) in Saint-Michel-de-Rivière, France: - Letter sent from Paris on 29/08/1941; on the back of the letter, Mr. Georget wrote that he requested that Hélène remain in Paris; - Letter written from a prison in Angoulême, 28/06/1942; - Letter written on a train en route to Poitiers camp, 01/07/1942; - Letter written in...

File Number : 1028

Type of Material : Letter, Envelope

Language : French, Yiddish

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 Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Alba, Lyon and hidden by Christians

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Berkovitz) Reisman, born in Charleroi, Belgium, 1931, regarding her experiences as a child in Alba, Lyon and hidden by Christians German occupation of Belgium, 1940; escape of her family to France, May 1940; German demonstrations in France; life with her family in Alba, 1940-1942; violin studies; detention of her father; German occupation, November 1942; transfer of the children to Lyon; Venissieux camp; transfer of the Jewish children to a monastery and hiding them following the intervention of Cardinal Gerlier, summer 1942; hidden with additional children by the Merlin family in...

File Number : 6771

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Booklets with documentation regarding the manhunt and deportation of Jews from Rieumes, France on 26 August 1942

The booklets include the following information, among other things: -- Jewish refugees in Rieumes and the Haute Garonne department during the war; Vichy Laws; deportations to concentration camps; draft for forced labor in GTEs (Groups of Foreign Workers); -- experiences of Jacob Lakser, his wife Rebecca Rywka (Blum) born in Biała, and their daughter Evelyne born in Vienna, 1937; escape from Vienna to Belgium in 1938; escape to France in May 1940 and stay in Toulouse; deportation of Jacob to Saint-Cyprien and Gurs camps in 1940; transfer of Rebecca and Evelyne to forced residence in Rieumes; life in Rieumes;...

File Number : 927

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Biography

Language : French

Memoirs of Giselle (Reiner) Shoham, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1929, about her experiences in Antwerp, in a children's home in Wezembeek, and in hiding in Niel, along with documentation associated with the Reiner family, etc. Memoirs of Giselle (Reiner) Shoham, born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1929: Germans enter Antwerp in 1940; the "Exode," an attempted escape to France that failed because the Germans blocked some of the roads; back to Antwerp, witness's mother dies from an illness; witness and sister move to a children's home in Brussels; children in the home sent to the Malines camp; released and sent...

File Number : 12712

Type of Material : Speech, Biography, Personal Documents, Certification, Death Certificate, Genealogy, Memoirs, Letter

Language : French, Dutch

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon Father, Laïzer Ejnès, born in Grabowiec in 1893, and mother, Haya Léa (Edelstein) Ejnès, from Lubartów; brothers: Moshé Maurice and Salomon Serge, bon in Lublin. Life in Lublin; emigration to France in 1932; staying in Paris and moving to Reims in 1933; life in Reims before the war; economic hardships; witness drops out of school and works with father in uncle's and aunt's knitting plant; moving to Paris and living with uncle, André Rak, and Aunt Fanny, in 1937, and doing sewing...

File Number : 12520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Letters from members of the Cykiert family in the Dannes-Cammier camp, interned in Liège, in the Malines camp, and on the way to deportation; documentation from Belgium and Poland about the Lipszyc, Cykiert, Bock/Bok, and Jungst families - Liège from Maurice Cykiert, in the Dannes-Cammier camp, to his mother Rywka and his brother Salomon Joseph in Liège, 1942; - postcards from Salomon José Cykiert, imprisoned in La Citadelle de Liège and in the Malines camp, to his wife, Charlotte (Lemoine) Cykiert in Bressoux, 1942; - Salomon José Cykiert's last postcard, written to Charlotte Cykiert aboard a deportation...

File Number : 5788

Type of Material : Protocol, Declaration, Letter, Biography, Death Certificate, החלטה, Genealogy, Article, Certification, Personal Records, Birth Certificate, Envelope, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Marriage Certificate, Identity Card, Postcard, Newspaper Clippings, Project, Questionnaire

Language : Polish, French, English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Dan Ben Simcha, formerly Isaac Cygielszteyn, born in Brussels in 1931, regarding his experiences in children's homes in Wezembeek, Momignies and Aische-en-Refail

His parents - Szymsio/Szymsie Cygielszteyn and Glika (Szpurman); his father was a shoemaker; the Exode: escape to the Puy de Dôme region in France in 1940 and his father's work in a shoe factory in Courpière; return to Brussels; deportation of his parents to Auschwitz; stay in the home of the secretary of the Red Cross, and transfer to a children's home in Momignies a month later; transfer to a Jewish children's home in Wezembeek; transfer to a children's home in Aische-en-Refail; hiding during an "Aktion" in 1944; transfer to hiding with farmers; liberation by the US Army; joining the Gordonia movement;...

File Number : 12166

Type of Material : Poem/song, Memoirs

Language : French

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein About the town of Mutzig; history of the family; World War I; moves from Mutzig to Strasbourg in 1923 in order to go to medical school; military service; marries Renée Klein in 1930; moves to Paris; Annette born in 1934; Jewish social circles, including that of Paul Recht; induction into the French Army in 1939 (discharged in July 1940); the Exode: moves with the family to Paul, Luz-Saint-Sauveur, and Bézieres; visits the Agde camp to...

File Number : 680

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Memoirs, Biography

Language : French

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