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Jean-Claude Lieber, born in Grenoble, France, 1922; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Jean-Claude Lieber, born in Grenoble, France, 1922; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Joins the EIF (French Jewish Scouts) in Grenoble; Jewish underground activities (providing forged documents), from 1942; life in Vercors including joining the FFI (Interior French Forces) underground; detention by the French militia; murdered by shooting in the prison in Die by a militiaman after being identified as a Jew, 31 July 1944. In the file: - Photograph of Jean-Claude Lieber; - Excerpt from a testimony.

File Number : 77

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Photograph

Language : French

O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France Documentation regarding Jewish underground heroes who died in France or were deported from France to extermination camps collected by the Association of Jewish Resistance Veterans (ARJF). Copies of the original material have been transferred to the Museum. The original documentation is located in the Yad Vashem Archives; the photographs have been transferred to the Yad vashem Photo Archives. The original numbering of the files has been preserved despite the fact that many files are empty.

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French

Issue of the "Italia Combatte" (Fighting Italy) newspaper, dated 11 July 1944

File Number : 172

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : Italian

Testimony of Fanny (Bresler) Buks, born in Lodz, 1924, regarding her experiences in Paris and hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Fanny (Bresler) Buks, born in Lodz, 1924, regarding her experiences in Paris and hiding Escape of her family to Paris; entry of the Germans, 1940; deterioration of their standard of life; move to the Free Zone with hopes of reaching Spain, 1942; awakening of the family's Jewish consciousness; living in the Jura area; smuggling of the witness and her mother by the OSE to Cardinal Gerlier, who found hiding places for them with various families; hiding in the Drome area; daily life in a monastery; transfer to a children's house located in St. Paul Chablais where thousands of Frenchmen arrived...

File Number : 10903

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Gregori Ritvas, born in Saratov, (Russia) Soviet Union, 1916, regarding his experiences in Kaisiadorys, Orsha, using a false identity in the German Army in France, and in the French underground in Le Puy En Velay and other places Life in Kaisiadorys before the war. Murder of the Jews; Orsha camp life including the murder of inmates; escape; capture and interrogation by the Gestapo; draft into a Tatar unit in the German Army while using a false identity; transfer to France in the context of the German Army; life in France, including combat against the partisans; makes contact with...

File Number : 3311

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Artur Weiser Wiejski, born in Lwow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Janowska, using a false identity in Uman and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Artur Weiser Wiejski, born in Lwow, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lwow, Janowska, using a false identity in Uman and other places Life before the war. Forced labor with the Czwartakow brigade in Lwow; organizing a resistance group; killing of an SS man named Keil by a Jew named Tadek Drutowski; deportation to Janowska; camp life including murder of Jewish inmates as an act of retaliation; SS men Wilhus and Gebauer; escape; move to Uman; life using a Polish identity; transfer to labor camps in German and France; help from local residents; activities in the French underground.

File Number : 1691

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Letters from Robert Gamzon, member of the underground detachment Maquis E.I. that was active in the Vabre area, France, 1944

Letters from Robert Gamzon, member of the underground detachment Maquis E.I. that was active in the Vabre area, France, 1944 - Training by the group members (past members of the Scouts); - Contact with other partisan units; - Supply of arms and medicine.

File Number : 525

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Diary of Marcel Berkowitz, born in Metz in 1928, a fighter in the FFI, regarding his participation in battles for the liberation of France during 1944-1945, and documentation related to the fate of the Pitaru family during the Holocaust Documentation related to Marcel Berkowitz (or Berkowicz), born in Metz on 05/01/1928 (his false name: Bercot): - Diary written by Marcel Berkowitz, who was a partisan, a fighter in the FFI and a French Army soldier, regarding his participation in battles for the liberation of France during 02/09/1944-03/02/1945; he stayed and fought in Tonnerre, in L'Isle-sur-Serein in the...

File Number : 10095

Type of Material : Identity Card, Application, Memoirs, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Personal Documents, Letter, Death Certificate, Diary

Language : French, English

Testimony of Uri Tenenbaum, born in 1939 in Guémené-Penfao, France, about his experiences in hiding in Paris, Écommoy, and Moissac

Testimony

Testimony of Uri Tenenbaum, born in 1939 in Guémené-Penfao, France, about his experiences in hiding in Paris, Écommoy, and Moissac Testimony about family and early childhood in Paris; father—co-owner of a bakery; Yiddish and French spoken in the home; German occupation ensues in 1940; father's relations with the resistance; hiding with sister, brothers, and other Jews in a convent of the Congrégation des Soeurs de Notre-Dame de Sion Paris for three weeks; taken with sister to the Porsche family, farmers in Écommoy, and staying there for two and half years; transferred with assistance from the OSE to a Jewish...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Suzanne Sabine (Veksler) Cohen, born in Paris, France in 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in Gretz-Armainvilliers, in Pau, while using a false identity in Nice, and in a village in the Oradour area until the liberation Life in Paris with her family; her parents work in fur processing; her father emigrates to the United States when she is five years old; her childhood in Gretz-Armainvilliers; she studies in an elementary school; German occupation, 1940; escape to Orléans with her mother on foot; escape on a train to the south of France until arriving to Castelnau; escape back to Paris;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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