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Report by Dr. Kurt May on the deportation of 7000 Jews from Baden and Palatinate to Gurs, France, and the conditions of the camp, 1940-1942

Report by Dr. Kurt May on the deportation of 7000 Jews from Baden and Palatinate to Gurs, France, and the conditions of the camp, 1940-1942 One of the very few survivors has described the deportation to Gurs and the situation there: - Sudden deportation of the Jews on 21 October 1940; the deportees were allowed to take just 100 Reichsmark and hand luggage. -Transport by train and trucks; arrival at Camp du Gurs after a few days. - The conditions at Gurs: Half-decayed wooden barracks, leaky roofs, no electricity, no windows, no furniture, straw to sleep only after a few days, insufficient food...

File Number : 73

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : German

Correspondence between Francis Ehrmann in the GTE Group in France and Léonie Ehrmann in Millac and Bellac during 1940-1941, letters and documentation concerning the Ehrmann, Koch and Neuberger families Letters and postcards regarding the Ehrmann family: - Postcard from relatives in Frankfurt to Francis Ehrmann in Paris, 02 August 1934; Letters written by Léonie Ehrmann in Millac at Mrs. Gayer-Avril and in Bellac to: -- Her husband Francis Ehrmann in France on 01 and on 22 July 1940; -- Du Ruchard camp commander in the Indre et Loire Department on 08 August 1940, regarding the search of her husband...

File Number : 4823

Type of Material : Drawing, Letter, Marriage Certificate, Biography, Personal Documents, Envelope, Postcard

Language : French, English, German

Biography of Mathilde (Neuwahl) Wolff, born in Liebenau in 1856, who was deported from Mannheim to Gurs, where she perished in 1941

Biography of Mathilde (Neuwahl) Wolff, born in Liebenau in 1856, who was deported from Mannheim to Gurs, where she perished in 1941 The life of the Jewish community in Liebenau before World War I; move of the Neuwahl family to Gelsenkirchen; Mathilde's marriage to Samuel Wolff from Norden; Samuel Wolff's activity in the leadership of the Jewish community in Norden; his death in 1930; Mathilde's move to Mannheim to her daughter Frieda Michel; description of the events of "Kristallnacht" by her granddaughter Lotte Michel; Mathilde's move to Essen to her daughter Henny Fraenkel in December 1938 and her return...

File Number : 494

Type of Material : Biography

Language : German