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Personal documentation belonging to the Levin family

Personal documentation belonging to the Levin family Family life in Gent, Belgium; escape to Vichy France; family moves from Bagneres de Bigorre to Cauterets; concentration of the family in Cauterets before deportation; life in Cauterets under house arrest, 1940-1942. Also in the file: - House Arrest orders; - Letter with directions for traveling from Pau to the Spanish border and to Portugal; - Work permit in the name of Henri Levin; - Letter which offered the possibility of escaping from French territory with longings for Sofia; - Two postcards written by Dr. Jacques Levin from Paris to...

File Number : 520

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : French

Testimony of Noah Avraham Neuman Neeman, born in Breslau, 1922, regarding his experiences on a farm in Bruguieres, in Lautrec and activities in the French underground

Testimony

Testimony of Noah Avraham Neuman Neeman, born in Breslau, 1922, regarding his experiences on a farm in Bruguieres, in Lautrec and activities in the French underground Life in Germany before the war. Forced transfer to Toulouse; life in Toulouse; restrictions on movement and life on a farm in Bruguieres; labor for a farmer; deportation of his mother to Auschwitz; joins the Jewish Scouts movement, E.I.F.; life using a false identity; life on a farm in Lautrec; move to an artists center in Revel; escape from a deportation train en route to forced labor in Germany, October 1943; joins the Maquis underground;...

File Number : 10790

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Booklets with documentation regarding the manhunt and deportation of Jews from Rieumes, France on 26 August 1942

The booklets include the following information, among other things: -- Jewish refugees in Rieumes and the Haute Garonne department during the war; Vichy Laws; deportations to concentration camps; draft for forced labor in GTEs (Groups of Foreign Workers); -- experiences of Jacob Lakser, his wife Rebecca Rywka (Blum) born in Biała, and their daughter Evelyne born in Vienna, 1937; escape from Vienna to Belgium in 1938; escape to France in May 1940 and stay in Toulouse; deportation of Jacob to Saint-Cyprien and Gurs camps in 1940; transfer of Rebecca and Evelyne to forced residence in Rieumes; life in Rieumes;...

File Number : 927

Type of Material : Booklet(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Biography

Language : French

The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, who perished in Auschwitz camp on 28 December 1944

The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck in 1913, who perished in Auschwitz camp on 28 December 1944 - The experiences of Rabbi Léo Cohn, born in Lübeck on 15 October 1913, during the Holocaust; His experiences were written down by André Maynadier: His parents were Wilhelm and Miriam (Carlebach)Cohn; move from Hamburg to Paris in 1933; establishment of Jewish Scouts movement in France by the Éclaireurs Israélites de France or EIF, by Robert Gamzon, in 1923; Léo's activities within the EIF; his marriage to Rachel Schloss in 1935; aliya of Léo's parents to Eretz Israel; move to Strasbourg in 1938;...

File Number : 648

Type of Material : Biography

Language : French

Letters from Jewish refugees in the south of France to the Comité d'Assistance aux Refugiés in Nîmes, France, 1940–1942

Letters from Jewish refugees in the south of France to the Comité d'Assistance aux Refugiés in Nîmes, France, 1940–1942 Pamphlet titled "Souviens toi" (Remember), published in France in 1993, including: - letters, cables, and postcards sent to the Comité d'Assistance aux Refugiés (CAR, Refugee Relief Committee) in Nîmes, France, 1940–1942: -- HICEM in Marseille, committee in the Gurs camp; -- Organisation Reconstruction Travail (ORT) in Nice; -- CAR in Marseille, Perpignan, and Montpellier; -- non-Jews in France concerning aiding and donating to CAR; -- Jewish refugees in several departements: Gard,...

File Number : 4954

Type of Material : Reports, Letter, Postcard, Excerpt(s), Telegram

Language : French, English, German, Yiddish

Correspondence of members of the Schaap and Davids families in the Netherlands, Belgium and Great Britain during 1940-1945, and documentation concerning the members of the Schaap and Silbiger families, born in the Netherlands and Belgium - Suicide letter written by Nel Schaap née Frankenhuis in The Hague to her mother, May 1940; - Letter of threat of delation, sent to the Schaap family in Brussels, Belgium on 10 October 1942; - Letter of Maurits Schaap in Brussels to Mr. and Mrs. Bricoult, 24 December 1942; - Letter sent from Dresden to Mr. Stevens (false surname of the Schaap family), 23 July 1943; -...

File Number : 5014

Type of Material : Identity Card, Birth Certificate, כתובה, Telegram, Personal Documents, Certification, Memoirs, Letter

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

Last postcard written by Samuel Akerman on a deportation train in France to his mother-in-law in Thônes in 1943, letter written by Samuel in Thônes, from 1942, forged documents and experiences of the Akerman family Letters: - Letter written by Samuel Akerman and his wife Gitta in forced residence in Thônes, France to their relatives Rachel and her husband Roman in Australia, 02 June 1942; - Last postcard written by Samuel Akerman on a deportation train in France to his mother-in-law in Thônes, France on 27 February 1943. The postcard was thrown from the train in Montréjeau; Forged documentation of...

File Number : 4811

Type of Material : Biography, Postcard, Personal Documents, Certification, Membership Cards, Identity Card, Letter

Language : French, English, German

Correspondence between Hilda and Anny Krieser in Pringy, and Perla Krieser at the Rivesaltes camp and on the deportation train near Toulouse, and Salomon Krieser in the GTE Battalion in France; documentation pertaining to the Krieser family

Correspondence between Hilda and Anny Krieser in Pringy, and Perla Krieser at the Rivesaltes camp and on the deportation train near Toulouse, and with Salomon Krieser in the GTE Battalion in France; documentation pertaining to the Krieser family Translations into English and Hebrew of letters regarding the Krieser family (Also a few postcards in German): Letters written by Hilda and Anny Krieser in the children's home in Pringy: - To their mother, Perla Krieser, in the Rivesaltes camp, 16 November 1941-17 May 1942; - To their father, Salomon Krieser, in the Agde camp, 25 August 1942; the postcard was...

File Number : 4315

Type of Material : Certification, Biography, Postcard, Letter

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Declarations written by Jewish Holocaust survivors in France, Switzerland and Germany, 1946-1947, regarding their having been smuggled from France to Switzerland by Max Grumbach from Annemasse; documentation issued in 1943 pertaining to Max Grumbach; a list of Jews rescued by Max Grumbach Declarations regarding Max Grumbach and Mme. Alter: - Declarations written by Jewish Holocaust survivors in Mulhouse, Sierent, Paris, Belfort, Vichy, Strasbourg, France, Osthoffen, Germany, and Fribourg, Switzerland, 20 April 1946-06 August 1947 regarding their having been smuggled across the border or the smuggling of...

File Number : 10013

Type of Material : Declaration, List of Jewish Survivors, החלטה, Letter

Language : French

Documentation of the members of the Praport family born in Częstochowa and the Cohen family born in the Netherlands who were deported from Berchem, in Antwerp and perished; genealogies for the Rosenberg-Mas, Praport and Rozenblum families containing the names of family members who perished, and more Documentation regarding Hendla Praport and her fate during the Holocaust: - Registration card in the name of Hendla Praport, born in Częstochowa between 16 and 29 August 1913, attesting to her transfer from Berchem in Antwerp to forced residence in Zepperen, 11 January 1941; Hendla emigrated from Poland to...

File Number : 1916

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Genealogy, Application, Form, Documentary, Letter, Personal Records

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, German

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