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Personal documentation of Alexandre Alter, born in Poleno, Hungary, 1898, and his wife Syma Laja (Berger) Alter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1907; documents dated, 1939-1954

Personal documentation of Alexandre Alter, born in Poleno, Hungary, 1898, and his wife Syma Laja (Berger) Alter, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1907; documents dated, 1939-1954 - Belgian identity card of foreign resident, Syma Laja Berger, born in Warsaw, 14 February 1907), issued in Antwerp, 16 November 1939 (and valid until 16 November 1941); - Confirmation of the identity of forced laborer, Alexandre Alter, born in Poleno, 24 April 1898, issued in Agde camp, 20 September 1940; - Marriage certificate of Alexandre Alter and Syma Berger, issued in Marseille, 30 June 1942; - Identity card of non-employed...

File Number : 541

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Excerpt(s)

Language : French, Dutch, German, Hungarian

Forged and genuine certificates made out to Rebecca (Karlin) Marmur from Nancy, and a certificate from the POW Association made out to Gerald Marmur, 1941-1945

Forged and genuine certificates made out to Rebecca (Karlin) Marmur from Nancy, and a certificate from the POW Association made out to Gerald Marmur, 1941-1945 - Forged identity card belonging to Rebecca Marmur using the name Renee Marmur, 1944; - Genuine identity card in the name of Rebecca Marmur from her stay in Moulins, 1941; - Identity card stamped with the word "Juif" (Jew) issued in Nancy, 27 January 1943; - Certificate from the Association des Prisonniers de Guerre (POW association) issued to Gerald Marmur in Lyon, 13 August 1945. Comments by the submitter of the material regarding the...

File Number : 533

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : French

Two letters written by Khaim Zilberberg regarding his experiences in Montpellier, the Drancy camp and in Kaunas, 1944

Two letters written by Khaim Zilberberg regarding his experiences in Montpellier, the Drancy camp and in Kaunas, 1944 Khaim Zilberberg asked his friend to translate the letters he wrote into Russian; during the time of the writing of the letters, Zilberberg was in Vilna working in a hospital, and he turned to Ilya Ehrenburg with a request to assist him in returning to his beloved motherland, France. Khaim Zilberberg describes how he sat in a coffee house with his friend, Biret, who was a member of the French underground and a Communist, in March 1944; they were preparing forged documents for Jews, but...

File Number : 224

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Letter of Testimony, Names of Rescuers

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding the Gingold family including the last letters written by Dora (Gingold) Buchband, an identity card for Leo Gingold, an official letter regarding the fate of Dora and more, 1941-2007 - Last letters written by Dora (Gingold) Buchband, deported from Drancy camp to Auschwitz where she perished, 11 February 1943; - Official letter regarding the fate of Dora (Gingold) Buchband including information regarding the Transport that took her to the extermination camp, 1958; - Identity card for Leo Gingold, issued in Paris, 04 September 1941; - Documentation regarding the Gingold family...

File Number : 1670

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Identity Card, Article, Letter

Language : French, English, German

Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, an activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris and letters they wrote in Blechhammer camp, 1941-1943 - Correspondence of Max and Leon Brodfeld in Drancy camp with their female relative in Paris, 1941; - Letters written by Sylvia Brodfeld, activist in the FTP-MOI underground organization in the Frenses prison in Romainville and in Drancy camp, 1942-1943; - Letters written by Max and Leon Brodfeld in Blechhammer camp,...

File Number : 1532

Type of Material : Letter

Language : French

Testimony of Leib Zatel Braverman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Leib Zatel Braverman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life in Kaunas before the war; secular family; attends a Jewish school. Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, summer 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including the birth of his brother, early 1942; labor of Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto in an air-field in place of his mother in exchange for payment; steals food from well-to-do Jews; reads in the attic; labor in Sanciai sorting...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 67, 29/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Biographical information regarding Paul Collette, perpetrator of the terrorist attack against Pierre Laval and Marcel Déat, members of the Vichy Government; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe z.b.V: Presence in the former Soviet-Polish territory; acts of murder and detentions by the Einsatzgruppe; continuing underground activity...

File Number : 164.67

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 69, 31/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Murder of a German officer in an attack in Paris; escape of the perpetrators of the assassination; distribution of placards by Communists containing a threat to murder 10 German soldiers or officers in retaliation (in case that) a Frenchman or Communist is murdered; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe A: Review regarding the...

File Number : 164.69

Type of Material : Survey Report, Manifesto

Language : German

Testimony of Rachel (Meierfeld) Beilis, born in Paris, France, 1930, regarding her experiences in hiding in Bruere Allichamps and the French Free Zone

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Meierfeld) Beilis, born in Paris, France, 1930, regarding her experiences in hiding in Bruere Allichamps and the French Free Zone From a family of immigrants from Poland; witness attends elementary school; her father's activities in the Communist party. Outbreak of the war and the German occupation of Paris; esape; in hiding in Bruere Allichamps; escape to the French Free Zone; life in the French Free Zone including earning a livelihood from agricultural work; her father's activities in the French resistance; liberation of France, 1944. Return to Paris; emigration to Slonsk; aliya...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Filip Flaks, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Rivesaltes and a dormitory in Versoix

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Filip Flaks, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1928, regarding his experiences in Rivesaltes and a dormitory in Versoix Life before the war. German occupation, May 1940; escape to Paris; escape to southern France; help from a Jewish assistance organization; move to the ORT dormitory in La Roche, late 1941; warning from French policemen regarding deportation of children; escape to the mountains of those designated for deportation; joins the Maquis; deportation of a group of youths from the dormitory; transfer to Rivesaltes; meets with his parents; deportation of his parents to Drancy, Rosh...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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