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Certificate awarded to Jean Schoenholz, born in Belfort, France, 1922, by the management of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse youth camps in Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 10 October 1941

Certificate awarded to Jean Schoenholz, born in Belfort, France, 1922, by the management of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse youth camps in Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 10 October 1941 Schoenholz 's work in the Camp Marechal Bugeaud, 15 March-20 October 1941. Notes from Roger Grinberg who submitted the material: Jean Schoenholz worked in the Petain youth camp. He joined the underground and was murdered by the Germans in 1944.

File Number : 553

Type of Material : Administrative Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Yocheved Guli (Brutzki) Grinblat, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Brussels, in Agde camp, in a dormitory in Chateau de Bassines, in hiding in the Ardennes area, and in other places Life before the war; Orthodox, religious family; death of her father; Wehrmacht invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940; escape to Revel with her mother and sisters; devious concentration of the Jews who are there, by the mayor; deportation to Agde with the Jews; escape from the camp to Brussels with her mother and sisters; life in Brussels, under curfew; marking of Jewish owned...

File Number : 13704

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Khanam Urbakh Anet , born in Paris, France , in 1935 regarding her hiding in a French village in the region of Normandie

German occupation in 1940; hiding during the deportation with friends from socialist organizations in 1941; arrest and deportation of the father to Drancy in 1942; smuggling of the witness, the brother and the members of the French foster family in the region of Normandie in 1942; life in the village; attending school as a French christian; evacuation to the forests in the area following the bombings by the Allies and return to the village in 1944; liberation by the American army in 1944; return to Paris by the mother; moving to a children's home in Calais with the help of the OSE organization and the...

File Number : 13699

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fredi Knoler, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1921 regarding the French resistance and the Drancy, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps

German occupation and annexation of Austria( Anschluss) in 1938; Kristallnacht in 1938; crossing borders to Antwerpen,Belgium in 1938 where acquaintances of the family stayed; transfer to a camp for Jewish refugees (with the support of the Jewish community) in Merkplas in 1939; escape to France after the German occupation of Belgium in 1940; his detention in Lille,France because of his German (Austrian) nationality and transfer to the detention camp in St Cyprien in 1940; his escape from the camp to Gaillac and his work in agriculture in 1940; buying of forged certificates and his moving to Paris,as a French...

File Number : 13473

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988

Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron and Elsa (Safern) Baron, 1921-1988 Documentation regarding Siegfried Schalom Baron: - Letter sent from Bialystok by Filip Baron to his brother, Schalom Baron in Tel Aviv, 21 May (no year stated); - Two postcards sent to Siegfried Schalom Baron by his brother, Filip Baron, from Stanislawow and Bednarow (both undated); - Letters and postcards sent to Schalom Baron by his parents, Hermann and Pepi Baron, from Bochum, 07 June 1939, Zbaszyn and Krakow, 1939; - Postcard (in Hebrew) sent to Schalom Baron by Josef Marcuse with information regarding the...

File Number : 1988

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs, Postcard, Official Documentation, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, German

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 Tzili Gold Dobrin Simon, born in 1925 in Berlin, about life under a false identity in Chambery, Grenoble, and Lyon

Life under Nazi rule in Berlin in 1933; reaching Paris with her family in 1938; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping and returning to Paris; hiding from deportation by the French police and escaping with family to the Free Zone in southern France in 1942; living in the La Bourboule resort town in 1942; assistance from residents and mayor; moving with a sister to Chambery in 1943 under a false identity with help from the French resistance and the Zionist movement; moving to a farm as part of a Zionist training pogram, Toulouse Lautrec, Grenoble; moving to a pension run by the French resistance in Lyon in...

File Number : 13574

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dr. Robert Goldstein, born in Paris in 1933, about his experiences as a boy in Clichy, Paris, at a boarding school in Fontenay sous Bois, and in hiding in Neuilly Plaisance

Testimony of Dr. Robert Goldstein, born in Paris in 1933, about his experiences as a boy in Clichy, Paris, at a boarding school in Fontenay sous Bois, and in hiding in Neuilly Plaisance Father is arrested and escapes from Hungary to France in 1924; father's activity in Béla Kun's Communist Party (1919); boyhood in Clichy in the 1930s; father volunteers for the French Foreign Legion and is sent to the front in 1939; father is wounded and taken prisoner, escapes in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1940; life under occupation; family changes its name to Goslan; escaping with the family to Paris; life in the...

File Number : 13458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation belonging to Robert Gamzon in France, 1944-1945

Documentation belonging to Robert Gamzon in France, 1944-1945 In the file: - Documentation regarding Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF – Jewish Scouts in France) from the time of the Maquis in France; - Letters from Robert Gamzon regarding the establishment of the "Orsay" School; - Questionnaires related to enlisting an administration for the "Orsay" School.

File Number : 515

Type of Material : Article, Personal Documents, Original

Language : French

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