Diary written by Max Przepiorka, born in Duesseldorf, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Belgium, Escou, Lasseube, Oloron Sainte Marie and other places, 1939-1942
Life in Belgium; social-philosophic problems.
Escape to Escou with his family; life in various places; work on a farm in Lasseube; transfer by the Oloron Sainte Marie police; transfer to Drancy, 13 September 1942; deportation from Drancy camp to Auschwitz on transport no. 33, 16 September 1942.
Letters, postcards and certificates regarding the experiences of Maurice Sebbane, born in Algeria, who was deported from France to Auschwitz, 1942-1961
Included in the file:
- Letters sent by Prosper Abecassis from Poitiers camp to his parents and from Drancy camp to his aunt;
- Last letter sent by Prosper Abecassis to his mother from a deportation train to the East, 22 July 1942;
- Letters from Rachel Polakewit [?] in the Vel d'Hiv (winter stadium for bicycle races) in Paris, 16-17 July 1942.
File Number : 1008
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Postcard, Letter, Personal Documents
Letter and postcards sent by Maurice Weiss at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris and in the Jawischowitz camp, 1942–1943, undated
- letter from Maurice Weiss at the Vélodrome d'Hiver (winter stadium for bicycle races) in Paris to Reine and Armand in France, July 17, 1942;
In the letter, Maurice writes about the grim conditions in the stadium and asks to update his father and wish him well;
- postcard from Maurice Weiss in the Jawischowitz camp to his father Bernard Weiss and his brother Jack-Jacques Weiss in Lyon, 1943, exact date not noted;
- information gleaned from the postcards: Maurice's mother and his...
Moise Judkowsky, born in the Vilna region; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II
Move to France before World War I; life in Toulouse including electrotechnology studies; early activities as part of the Comite de Coordination des Oeuvres Israelites de Bienfaisance (Coordinating Committee of Jewish Welfare Societies).
German occupation; drafted into the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) by Henri Rosenzweig; it would appear that he was arrested in the Velodrome d'hiver (Winter Sport Palace) hunt in Paris, 16 July 1942.
In the file:
- Excerpt from...
Correspondence regarding the establishment of the Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), activities of the organization and more, 1941-1942
The material was created by:
Andre Baur UGIF Vice-President to the Commissariat General aux Questions Juives (CGQJ- General Office for Jewish Affairs)
Correspondence regarding the dissolution of all Jewish organizations and the establishment of the UGIF, according to the law of 29 November 1941, and the UGIF's activities (budget, social welfare, opening of children's homes and equipping them).
Also in the file:
- Letter...
Testimony of Rachel Joffe, born in Paris, 1928, regarding her experiences hiding in Chateau des Morelles and a monastery in Moissac
Life in a tradesman’s family before the war; pioneer parents in Eretz Israel who emigrated to France; arrest of the men, July 1942; escape from Paris to Darmetz en Lorrenze; OSE hid the children in Chateau des Morelles; detention of the mother in Gurs camp; the witness was moved to a monastery in Moissac.
Return of the children to their mother who survived.
Memoirs of Georgette Gomès (maiden name: Rosenfarb) regarding her family’s experiences in Paris, in Lyon, in detention in Montluc, in Ravensbrück camp, in camps in Germany and on death marches from Markkleeberg camp
- memoirs of Georgette (Zette) Gomès (maiden name: Rosenfarb), born in Paris on 17 September 1924, regarding her family’s experiences in the Holocaust:
- her parents, Szyja Rosenfarb and Frymeta (maiden name: Malecka), were born in Warsaw in 1900 and 1904; the move of Szyja to Paris in 1919 and Frymeta's move to Paris in 1922; their marriage in 1922; her father worked with leather for shoes;...
Memoirs of Pierre Degenszajn, born in Paris, regarding the experiences of his family in hiding in France, a postcard and documentation concerning the Goldwasser family from Klimontów and their relatives from Poland
Memoirs of Pierre Degenszajn born in Paris on 11 January 1931, regarding his family's experiences in the Holocaust. Written in Paris in 2003:
family history; his parents: Israel Hersch Degenszajn born in Koprzywnica in 1909, and Devora Dworja (maiden name: Goldwasser) born in Klimontów in 1902. Her father Menachem Manes, born in Klimontów in 1858, and her brother Izhak Ascher Goldwasser made...
File Number : 11098
Type of Material : Genealogy, List of Jewish Survivors, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, Postcard, Biography