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Testimony of Remond Bujena, born in Nabeul, Tunisia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nabeul and in the Free French Committee

Testimony

Testimony of Remond Bujena, born in Nabeul, Tunisia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Nabeul and in the Free French Committee Life before the war; traditional family; relations with the local population. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation, 1942; transfer to forced labor; liberation by the British Army and the US Army; draft into the Comité français de la Libération nationale (French Committee of National Liberation); combat in the Comité français de la Libération nationale. Return to Tunisia, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1955.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Emil Baruch, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, 1924, regarding his experiences helping the French underground, Kasserine and as a French Army soldier in Normandy

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Emil Baruch, born in Bizerte, Tunisia, 1924, regarding his experiences helping the French underground, Kasserine and as a French Army soldier in Normandy From a well-to-do family with many children; attends a French school; French citizenship. Vichy government rise to power and restrictions in Tunisia, 1940; witness is denied the right to attend naval officer school; work as a hairdresser; passes on photographs of airfield plans to the French underground; arrest; German occupation, November 1942; move to Tunis; capture by the Germans and deportation to Kasserine; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French

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File Number : 997

Type of Material : Food Voucher, Biography

Language : French

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon

Memoirs of Henri Ejnès, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1921, about his experiences under a false identity in Reims, Montluçon, and Lyon Father, Laïzer Ejnès, born in Grabowiec in 1893, and mother, Haya Léa (Edelstein) Ejnès, from Lubartów; brothers: Moshé Maurice and Salomon Serge, bon in Lublin. Life in Lublin; emigration to France in 1932; staying in Paris and moving to Reims in 1933; life in Reims before the war; economic hardships; witness drops out of school and works with father in uncle's and aunt's knitting plant; moving to Paris and living with uncle, André Rak, and Aunt Fanny, in 1937, and doing sewing...

File Number : 12520

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

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Postcards from The Hague to B. Färber in Tel Aviv, 1939–1940; memoirs and documentation of Jacob Färber Gavan, born in Düsseldorf in 1935 - memoirs of Jacob Jacques Gaven né Färber, born in Düsseldorf in 1935, recounting his experiences in the Holocaust: Kristallnacht violence in Düsseldorf; witness exfiltrated to France with brother, Joseph; Jacob stays with relatives in Metz (the Hoffnung family) and Josef with relatives in Lille; parents, Bernard Dov and Cyla (Kluger) Färber, the latter born in Kraków, escape with younger sister, Mina, from Germany to family in the Netherlands in April 1939 and immigrate...

File Number : 5582

Type of Material : Identity Card, Personal Documents, Certification, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Biography, Postcard, Letter, Speech, Death Certificate, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German

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File Number : 5501

Type of Material : Letter, Biography

Language : French

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein

Memoirs of Gaston Lévy, born in 1902 in Mutzig, about his work for the OSE in France and his exfiltration to Switzerland in 1944, and the experiences of Renée Lévy née Klein About the town of Mutzig; history of the family; World War I; moves from Mutzig to Strasbourg in 1923 in order to go to medical school; military service; marries Renée Klein in 1930; moves to Paris; Annette born in 1934; Jewish social circles, including that of Paul Recht; induction into the French Army in 1939 (discharged in July 1940); the Exode: moves with the family to Paul, Luz-Saint-Sauveur, and Bézieres; visits the Agde camp to...

File Number : 680

Type of Material : Memoirs, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Biography

Language : French

Correspondence of Léo Cohn in Algeria, France, in detention in Toulouse and in Drancy camp in 1944, and letters and documentation related to Léo Cohn and the EIF

- letters and postcards written by Léo Cohn in Algeria during his service in the Foreign Legion, in various places in France in the years 1938-1944 and in prison in Toulouse and in the Drancy camp in 1944; - letters to Léo Cohn in France and letters concerning the Cohn family; - correspondence between Noémie Cassuto, other people in Israel, and pastor A. Maynadier in Lautrec in the years 2017-2020; Documentation concerning Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, his wife Rachel (Schloss), born in Hamburg in 1915 and their children Ariel and Noémie, issued in France, Algeria and Germany in 1930-1991: --...

File Number : 5200

Type of Material : Biography, Telegram, Announcement, Personal Documents, Personal Records, Certification, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Invitation, Memoirs, Legal Documentation, Medical Documentation, Birth Certificate, Postcard, Letter, Newspaper, Poems/songs, Declaration

Language : Hebrew, French, English, German

File of refugees from the Kleerkooper family, born in Amsterdam, from the Swiss Federal Archives, containing documentation from Switzerland dated 1942-1945

File of refugees from the Kleerkooper family, born in Amsterdam, from the Swiss Federal Archives, containing documentation from Switzerland dated 1942-1945 -- lists of Dutch refugees who entered Switzerland illegally in September 1942, including the names of family members; -- list of Dutch refugees who were transferred to a refugee camp in Cossonay on 15 October 1942, in which the name of the family appears; -- protocols from investigations of family members by the Swiss military police; -- statements by family members regarding their experiences: living in Antwerp; escape to France in 1940 and stay...

File Number : 44

Type of Material : List of Refugees, Letter, Certification, Medical Documentation, Personal Documents, Protocol, Declaration

Language : Italian, French, German

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