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Leopold Waxmann; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Leopold Waxmann; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Underground MJS (Zionist Youth Movement) activities in Nice; arrest; deportation to Drancy, 1943.

File Number : 193

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : French

Hilde Haberman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1926; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Hilde Haberman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1926; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Drafted into the underground in Nice when she is 17 years old by Claude Kelman; detention by the Gestapo, 15 January 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz. In the file: -Testimony of Claude Kelman regarding Hilde Haberman.

File Number : 72

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : French

Suzanne Kraika, born in Paris, France, 1923; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

Suzanne Kraika, born in Paris, France, 1923; details regarding her activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Life in Grenoble. Membership in MJS (Zionist Youth Movement) in the Grenoble regiment. There is more information in the book, Organisation Juive de Combat", published in 2002.

File Number : 34

Type of Material : Photograph, Personal Documents

Language : French

Jacob Weintraub, born in Tarczyn, Poland, 1920, known as Jacques Wister; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Jacob Weintraub, born in Tarczyn, Poland, 1920, known as Jacques Wister; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Nice; activities as commander of an MJS (Zionist Youth Movement) regiment; participation in preparation of forged documents; organizes the smuggling of children into Switzerland; arrest with Jacques Marburger, 23 September 1943; release from detention; forgets to take a folder with documents after the Gestapo interrogation and goes back to get it; arrested again; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 28 October 1943. Also in the...

File Number : 16

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Telegram, Testimony, Photograph, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : French, German

Mila Racine, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, 1921, known as Marie Anne Richemond; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Mila Racine, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, 1921, known as Marie Anne Richemond; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Membership in WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization); helps people in Gurs and other camps; smuggles children to the Swiss border; taken captive with Roland Epstein while smuggling children, 21 October 1943; deportation to Ravensbrueck; death during an air-raid, 22 March 1944; awarded the Medaille de la Resistance and the Croix de Guerre. Also in the file: - Article regarding Mila Racine from a book by Shimon Hammel; -...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Photograph, Documents, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : French

Marianne Cohn, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1922, known as Marianne Colin: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Marianne Cohn, born in Mannheim, Germany, 1922, known as Marianne Colin: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Jewish underground activities in France; OSE (Children's Aid Society) activities; illegally crosses the border between Switzerland and France with a group of orphaned children, 31 May 1944; detention by the Germans while crossing the border; deportation to the La Pax prison in Annemasse with the children; removal of the children from the prison by Deffaugt, the mayor, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; murder by the Germans in Ville La...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings, Documents

Language : French

Jewish underground press in France, 1941-1944

Jewish underground press in France, 1941-1944 - "Notre Parole" (Our Word), 1941, 1943 (incomplete); - "Notre Voix" (Our Voice), 1942-1944 (incomplete); - "La Voix de la Femme Juive" (The Jewish Woman's Voice) ,1943 (incomplete); - "Droit et Liberté" (Law and Liberty), 1944 (incomplete); - "En Avant" (In the Front), 1943 (incomplete); - "Jeune Combat" (Young Combat), 1943-1944 (incomplete); - "Quand Meme" (Even So), 1943-1944 (incomplete); - "J'Accuse" (I Accuse), 1942-1943 (incomplete).

File Number : 318

Type of Material : Newspaper

Language : French

Reports regarding Eclaireurs Israelites de France (EIF – Jewish Scouts in France) activity in France, 1940-1944

Reports regarding Eclaireurs Israelites de France (EIF – Jewish Scouts in France) activity in France, 1940-1944 In the file: Reports regarding EIF activities in southern France and in centers in Viarose, Lautrec, Moissac and Taluyers EIF Activity Reports Also in the file: - Speeches made by Robert Gamzon before the EIF in Mulhouse, 1935 (recorded on an audio tape); - Report regarding activities of the Service Social des Jeunes Clandestins (La Sixieme) (The Sixth - Underground network of the EIF) Social Department of the Undercover Youth (the Sixth), 1942; - Agreement regarding cooperation with...

File Number : 134

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, List of Murdered Persons

Language : French

Testimony of Joseph Sungolowsky, born in Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust and hiding in southern France

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Sungolowsky, born in Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences during the Holocaust and hiding in southern France Living with the family in Charlroi; his father served as the community's rabbi; family fled to Vichy, 10 May 1940; travel to Nice; life in Nice under the French government in the Free Zone and then under Italian occupation; life during the German occupation; some of the family were hidden by a non-Jewish woman; the witness with his brother are admitted to an OSE institution; transfer to a Catholic school in Nice; life in the home of Mme A. Pierre-Vienot who was very active in...

File Number : 10661

Type of Material : Testimony

Testimony of Gaby Gabriela (Fisher) Shorr, born in Paris, 1932, regarding her experiences in Lyon and in a dormitory in Nice

Testimony

Testimony of Gaby Gabriela (Fisher) Shorr, born in Paris, 1932, regarding her experiences in Lyon and in a dormitory in Nice Life in a village under the German occupation, and the first meeting with German soldiers; escape to Lyon, in the Free Zone; Petain's visit to Lyon; the large attack on St. Catherine Street, November 1943; her father works for the Jewish National Fund, JNF; her father works in cooperation with the Joint, in transferring money to the United States to finance the rescue of Jewish children; escape to Nice; life during the Italian occupation; activity in Hanoar Hatzioni and the Jewish...

File Number : 10652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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