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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

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 Sipora (Segal) Avny, born in Iasi, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Iasi

Testimony

Testimony of Sipora (Segal) Avny, born in Iasi, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Iasi Financially secure traditional family; theatre lovers; her brother is disabled; displays of antisemitism, 1939. German occupation, 1941; escape to a shelter; capture of her father; death of her father in the deportation train; forced labor of her brother; liberation of Iasi by the Red Army, 1944. Joins aliya training in Romania; aliya attempt onboard the "Pan York"; detention in Cyprus; marriage and aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona Israelewicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as an orphan in a Christian institution in Versailles and a Chabad institution

Testimony

Testimony of Yona Israelewicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as an orphan in a Christian institution in Versailles and a Chabad institution His family move to Paris; his parents' deaths; education in a Christian institution. Outbreak of the war; placed in an institution in Versailles; escape and return several times; wanderings; placed in a Chabad institution by his brother; work in various places; help from the OSE; end of the war. Enlists in the French Foreign Legion; move to Lyon; learns in a yeshiva.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Article by Marcel Chouraqui regarding the bestowing of the American "Legion of Merit" military decoration to French General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny by the American government

File Number : 366

Type of Material : Article

Language : French

Documents regarding the military career of Kurt Bettesch, 1939-1977

Documents regarding the military career of Kurt Bettesch, 1939-1977 In the file: - Liberation certificate from Buchenwald issued to Kurt Bettesch, 13 May 1939; - Documents pertaining to Kurt Bettesch's military career as a volunteer in the Legion Etrangere (French Foreign Legion) in North Africa during World War II.

File Number : 323

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : French, German

Testimony of Otto Spira, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in the French Foreign Legion in France and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England

Testimony of Otto Spira, born in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in the French Foreign Legion in France and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England Escape routes of Jewish refugees to France and the Middle East, 1939; Jews in the French Foreign Legion; Jews in Czechoslovakian units in France, 1940; life in the Agde training camp; chaotic retreat to England; role of Jewish volunteers in Czechoslovakian units, 1943; difficulties in joining the air force; fighting at Dunkirk, 1944. Life in the American liberated zone; life in liberated Prague, 1945.

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Testimony of Miroslav Sigut, born in Dobratice, Czechoslovakia, 1917, regarding his experiences in Krakow, as a French Foreign Legion soldier in France and as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in England Help from the Jewish communities to non-Jewish refugees, 1939. Expulsion to Poland; enlistment in the Czechoslovakian Army by Jewish volunteers not accepted by the Czechoslovakian Consulate in Krakow; enlistment in the French Foreign Legion; life in the Foreign Legion unit at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, 1940; transfer of Czechoslovakian volunteers to the Agde training camp; difficulties in mobilization of...

File Number : 76

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Czech

Comite de Coordination des Oeuvres Israélites de Bienfaisance (Coordinating Committee of Jewish Welfare Societies), Zone Nord correspondence mainly regarding requests for assistance and employment, 1940-1941 Comite de Bienfaisance Israelite de Paris correspondence mainly regarding requests for assistance and employment. Also in the file: - Postcards from Shmuel Bloom, the painter, from the Foreign Legion military camp in Sathonay, and a letter, in Yiddish, regarding aid that was sent to him, 02 February 1940; -Two brief surveys of discussions with Weisenburg, the American Consul, concerning visas to...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Postcard

Language : French, Yiddish

Testimony of Sara (Schapira) Feldman, born in Zolkiew, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences in a children's home and in hiding in France

Testimony

Testimony of Sara (Schapira) Feldman, born in Zolkiew, Poland, 1933, regarding her experiences in a children's home and in hiding in France Underwent surgery on her leg and was in a cast until the age of 3; move of the family to Paris due to the antisemitism, 1938. Draft of her father and uncle into the Legion Etrangere, the French Foreign Legion, at the outbreak of the war; work of her mother in her father's fur workshop; witness is placed in a children's home; suffers filth and lice; return to her mother until 1943; entrusted to a family in Sceaux sur Huisne until the end of the war. Return to Paris,...

File Number : 11041

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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