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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

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.

File Number : 7457

Type of Material : Diary

Language : French, Dutch

Letters, postcards and certificates regarding the experiences of Maurice Sebbane, born in Algeria, who was deported from France to Auschwitz, 1942-1961

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 : Letter, Official Documentation, Postcard, Personal Documents

Language : French

Moise Judkowsky, born in the Vilna region; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

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...

File Number : 67

Type of Material : Testimony, Personal Documents

Language : French

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

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...

File Number : 17

Type of Material : Names, Official Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Rachel Joffe, born in Paris, 1928, regarding her experiences hiding in Chateau des Morelles and a monastery in Moissac

Testimony

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.

File Number : 11035

Type of Material : Testimony

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;...

File Number : 10922

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

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 : List of Murdered Jews, Genealogy, Postcard, List of Jewish Survivors, Memoirs, Biography

Language : Hebrew, French, Yiddish

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democratic...

Documentation related to the Duvidovici, Tic and Gasmir families, issued in Paris, Chișinău and Odessa during 1916-1991, and newspaper clippings regarding the deportation of Solange and Simon Gasmir from Drancy camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Documentation related to the Gasmir family: - Declarations by Chaim Gasmir, born in Shepetokva on 22/12/1888, and his widow Ruhlea (Duvidovici) Gasmir, born in Chișinău on 20/12/1904, issued in Paris in 1935 and 1939 for the purpose of the submission of an application for French citizenship for their children Solange and Simon, born in Paris on 01/10/1935 and on...

File Number : 656

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Membership Cards, Diploma, Personal Documents, Marriage Certificate, Declaration, Certification, Birth Certificate

Language : French, Romanian, Russian

Memoirs of Hélène Kaminski, born in Paris in 1939, regarding her family's experiences in hiding in France and documentation concerning the Kaminski family

Memoirs of Hélène Kaminski, born in Paris in 1939, regarding her family's experiences in hiding in France and documentation concerning the Kaminski family - Hélène Kaminski's memoirs of her family's history in the Holocaust: Her parents: her father, Zvi Sasha Kaminsky, born in Berdichev, was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, tortured and blinded; her mother Rachel (maiden name: Marder), was born in Brody; Zvi’s escape from the Soviet Union to Paris in the twenties; Rachel's move to Paris in 1936; marriage of Zvi and Rachel in Rowne in 1936 and return to France; Hélène's birth in Paris in 1939; persecution of...

File Number : 11350

Type of Material : Marriage Certificate, Declaration, Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Birth Certificate, Membership Cards, Memoirs, Article, Personal Documents

Language : Latin, Hebrew, Polish, French, Russian, Yiddish

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