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Rabbi Samuel Stourdze, born in 1918, known as Samy; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Rabbi Samuel Stourdze, born in 1918, known as Samy; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Drafted into the French Army, 1939; completes an officers' training course in Saint Cyr, April 1940; distribution of Gaullist flyers and arrest, May 1941; completes his rabbinical studies at the Chamalieres Rabbinical Seminary; ordination as a Rabbi, 1941; joins the Aumonerie Generale Israelite (General Jewish Chaplaincy); appointment as Assistant Rabbi in Clermont Ferrand; participates in underground activities; escape to Moissac, 1942; joins La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the...

File Number : 205

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony, Photograph, Personal Documents

Language : French

Survey of the situation in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the neighboring countries as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by visitors with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, September 1943 Poland: Transfer of inmates from Auschwitz to camps in Germany and the bringing of new inmates; murder of Polish inmates by gas in Majdanek; central role of the Jews in the Polish economy; Caucasus Region: Mass murders of Jews according to an eye witness; Minsk: There were Jews and now they are not; Germany: The harsh situation of the Germans; rubble and the condition of the population in...

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943

Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943 Poland: Information from coded letters regarding the murder of Jews in Krakow and Warsaw; murder in Treblinka and Belzec; Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and small German company camps; deception of the inmates regarding their imminent murders; situation in Bialystok is still reasonable; demographic situation of the Jews of Lodz; the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva; Germany: Germany's strength has been...

File Number : 13

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew

Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts, speeches by leaders and by witnesses, with emphasis on the Jewish population, March 1943

Survey of events in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts, speeches by leaders and by witnesses, with emphasis on the Jewish population, March 1943 Poland: Warsaw: report on the devastation of the war from a Swedish merchant who visited Warsaw; division of services according to the population receiving the services: those for Germans and those for Poles; letters from Jews from Upper Silesia and Galicia; Poznan has been turned into a German city; Polish workers in the Reich; Polish libraries in the Generalgouvernement; the trains' administration in Poland; a call from...

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew