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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

Yehoshua Philippe Feist, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1890; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II

Yehoshua Philippe Feist, born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1890; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Move to France, 1928. Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation; detention; deportation to a camp for citizens of a hostile country; camp life until 1940; transfer to Roanne with his family; deportation to Gurs, August 1941; transfer to Les Milles; release from the camp, December 1941; receives an offer from Rabbi Zalman Schneurson, head of AIP (Association of Devout Jews) to manage a children's home, spring 1942; life in Marseilles including management of...

File Number : 81

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Personal Documents, Photograph

Language : French

Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud correspondence mainly with Chief Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn regarding the matter of the Seignebon Estate, the agricultural training center for religious youth, 1941-1944 The material was created by: General Director of the 2nd Department "Work" In the file: Correspondence mainly with Chief Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn and Ms. De Heredia regarding the matter of the Seignebon Estate, the agricultural training center for religious youth in Gers, in southern France.

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names, Circular, Reports

Language : French

Correspondence between Union Generale des Israelites de France (UGIF-General Union of Jews in France), Zone Sud, with UGIF offices in Paris, 1942-1944, regarding blocked bank accounts, exchange of information and cooperation between administrative committees in northern and southern France The material was created by: UGIF, Zone Sud; The General Manager for the President, UGIF Paris. In the file: Correspondence between UGIF, Zone Sud, with UGIF offices in Paris regarding blocked bank accounts, exchange of information; aid to Jews, inmates in the Drancy camp and cooperation between the UGIF...

File Number : 147

Type of Material : Reports, Telegram, Official Documentation, Names

Language : French

List of Jewish children who stayed in the Château du Manoir children's home in Saint-Étienne-de-Crossey in 1943

File Number : 1920

Type of Material : List of Jewish Children

Language : French

List of Jewish children who stayed in the Château du Manoir children's home in Saint-Étienne-de-Crossey in 1943, including the names of those who stayed in Château du Manoir and perished and those who survived, and a pamphlet regarding Rabbi Schnéor Zalman Schneersohn Documentation regarding Jewish children who stayed in Château du Manoir in Saint-Étienne-de-Crossey, France during the war: - List of Jewish children who stayed in the Maison d'Enfants Schneerson children's home in Château du Manoir in Saint-Étienne-de-Crossey, France in October 1943, including also the names of children who perished during...

File Number : 1920

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Excerpt(s), List of Jewish Children, Note

Language : French, English