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Chaim Menachem Teichtal, born in 1922 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, about escaping to Belgium and thence to France; internment in various camps including Saint Cyprien, and escaping

Family life; community; studies; personality of the witness's father, Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal; Slovakia given autonomy in October 1938; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party; anti-Jewish decrees and the yellow-star rule; escaping to Belgium via Vienna and Munich; a stay in Antwerp; Germans enter Belgium in May 1940; escaping to France aboard a refugee train; assistance from the Red Cross; reaching southern France; interned in various camps, including Saint Cyprien; religious life and starvation in the camp; escaping to Marseilles with two brothers after a stay in Toulouse; manhunt in the streets of Toulouse;...

File Number : 13333

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Nahum Hermann, born in Shargorod, Ukraine, 1899: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II

Nahum Hermann, born in Shargorod, Ukraine, 1899: details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in France; activities as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Keren Hayesod (United Israel Appeal); establishment of the CDJC (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center) with other people. Outbreak of the war; work as a foreign correspondent for "The Jewish Morning Journal" newspaper; work for newspapers from Eretz Israel; activities in the underground AJ (Jewish Army); taken captive in Limoges during an attempt to transfer money to OSE (Children's Aid Society);...

File Number : 35

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Survey Report, Letter, Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Official Documentation

Language : French, Yiddish

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) correspondence including copies in chronological order, 1963-1964

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) correspondence including copies in chronological order, 1963-1964 In the file: - Letters to newspaper editorial boards; -Correspondence with the WJC (World Jewish Congress), specifically with Gerhard Riegner; the CDJC (Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine), specifically with Isaac Schneerson; various Jewish Swiss personalities, for example, Georges Brunschvig, Georg Guggenheim, Alfred Goetschel; Jean Nordmann and Robert Wieler; Paul Vogt, the Protestant minister; Henry...

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation

Language : French, German

Correspondence of the director of Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud regarding being accepted to work in the UGIF offices, 1941-1943

Correspondence of the director of Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud regarding being accepted to work in the UGIF offices, 1941-1943 The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Sud, the General Manager, Special Secretariat In the file: Correspondence between Raymond-Raoul Lambert, director of the UGIF, Zone Sud with Maurice Dreyfuss, Jacques Helbronner, Pierre Rueff; Isaac Schneersohn; Raymond Marcus, Alphonse Blum, Salomon Posener and Theo Klein regarding being accepted to work in the UGIF offices; - Correspondence between Raymond-Raoul Lambert and...

File Number : 148

Type of Material : Curriculum Vitae (cv), Official Documentation

Language : French