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Survey prepared by Dr. Naomi Cassuto regarding the Jewish Scouts in France including a character study of Leo Cohn, the educator, a native in Luebeck, Germany, during the Holocaust

Survey prepared by Dr. Naomi Cassuto regarding the Jewish Scouts in France including a character study of Leo Cohn, the educator, a native in Luebeck, Germany, during the Holocaust [Leo Cohn, born in Luebeck, Germany, the grandson of Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Carlebach (1845-1919)] Family life including his period of office as a member of the Luebeck City Council; emigration of the family from Germany to Strasbourg France, 1932; activities in a Brit Hanoar camp in La Houve in the Moselle region at the invitation of Paul Roitman; the family makes aliya to Eretz Israel, 1932; remaining in France in order to bring...

File Number : 171

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Eveline Samdege Azoulay, born in La Marsa, Tunisia in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in La Marsa, Tunis and Marseille

Testimony of Esther Eveline Samdege Azoulay, born in La Marsa, Tunisia in 1938, regarding her experiences as a child in La Marsa, Tunis and Marseille Her childhood in La Marsa; Deportation of her father to a labor camp; her father is injured and hospitalized; arrival of the US Army to La Marsa; Move to Tunis; life in Tunis; move to Daienas camp in Marseille with help from the Youth Aliyah organization; aliya to Israel in 1952.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, including outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement, songs of the Maccabi Hatzair and the [Jewish] Scouts movements, and other matters, 1936 Slovakian newspaper clippings with greetings on the occasion of the second Maccabiah Winter Games in Banská Bystrica, February 1936; Hungarian newspaper clipping from Pozsony with an article about outstanding sportsmen from the Maccabi Hatzair movement; pages with drawings of emblems of Jewish youth group movements and songs of the Maccabi and [Jewish] Scouts movements in...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Poems/songs, Drawing

Language : Slovak, German, Hungarian

Memoirs of Roger Avraham, born in Strasbourg, France, 24 March 1927, regarding his experiences in Clermont Ferrand, in the framework of the underground in Lautrec, in hiding in Ligny en Brionnais, and in other places Life in Clermont Ferrand, 1939-1942; life in a camp of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France (Jewish Scouts Movement in France) of the underground in Lautrec; life in hiding while hidden in the home of a French farmer in Ligny en Brionnais, until August 1943; escape to France; move to Morocco; life in the French Army in the context of the Allied forces in central Africa and in Italy; move to Lyon,...

File Number : 8285

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Berlinger) Neumeier, born in Trier, Germany, 1916, regarding her experiences in Trier and Giershofen before the war and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Berlinger) Neumeier, born in Trier, Germany, 1916, regarding her experiences in Trier and Giershofen before the war and her aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936 Life before the war; attends a Jewish school and a non-Jewish school for girls; relations between the local Jews and the Ostjuden (Jews from Eastern Europe); rise to power of the National Socialist party, 1933; aliya training in Giershofen; return to Trier. Aliya to Eretz Israel using a tourist visa, 1936.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Regina (Lautenberg) Shishitzki, born in Hagen, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Paris and Beaulieu

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Lautenberg) Shishitzki, born in Hagen, Germany, 1927, regarding her experiences in Paris and Beaulieu Life before the Nazi rise to power; detention of her father, 1933; escape to Paris, 1934; life as Jewish German refugees in Paris. Outbreak of the war, 1939; placed in Maison de la Rosiere institution in Beaulieu with the help of the EIF, Jewish Scouts movement; activities in the institution and keeping her Jewish identity; leaving the institution; life in Beaulieu with her family; receives help from local residents; liberation of Paris, 1944. Return home; life after the war;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF – Jewish Scouts in France) leaders who perished during the Holocaust

List of Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF – Jewish Scouts in France) leaders who perished during the Holocaust The undated alphabetical list includes the duties of the leaders and the circumstances of their deaths.

File Number : 134

Type of Material : List of Murdered Persons

Language : French

Memoirs of Yitzchak [Gerd] Zakai, written in a letter to his parents during travel from Spain to Eretz Israel including while on board a ship, 26 October-19 November 1944, regarding his experiences as a refugee in France Life in France as a refugee; [activities] in the French Foreign Legion; [activities] in the Jewish Scouts underground; move to the border of Spain with a group of Scouts.

File Number : 7145

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Fanny Gutwirth, born in La Haye, the Netherlands, 1923; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Fanny Gutwirth, born in La Haye, the Netherlands, 1923; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in the EIF (French Jewish Scouts) in the Grenoble area and afterwards in Nice; La Sixieme (the Sixth) activities including participation in activities to rescue children; arrest following being informed on, 1943; deportation to Auschwitz on Transport 64, 07 December 1943; her death in Auschwitz. In the file: - Photograph of Fanny Gutwirth; - Testimony.

File Number : 211

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony, Photograph

Language : French

Rabbi Samuel Stourdze, born in 1918, known as Samy; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Rabbi Samuel Stourdze, born in 1918, known as Samy; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Drafted into the French Army, 1939; completes an officers' training course in Saint Cyr, April 1940; distribution of Gaullist flyers and arrest, May 1941; completes his rabbinical studies at the Chamalieres Rabbinical Seminary; ordination as a Rabbi, 1941; joins the Aumonerie Generale Israelite (General Jewish Chaplaincy); appointment as Assistant Rabbi in Clermont Ferrand; participates in underground activities; escape to Moissac, 1942; joins La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the...

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter of Testimony, Photograph

Language : French

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