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Personal documents belonging to Edith Croitoriu, born, 1932, and her family members, relating to their experiences in Paris during the war and following

Personal documents belonging to Edith Croitoriu, born, 1932, and her family members, relating to their experiences in Paris during the war and following - Invitation to a ceremony to award a prize for the best essay, given to Edith Croitoriu by the Government Secretary for National Educational Affairs, Abel Bonnard, in Paris, 30 January 1943; the prize was given by Bonnard, who collaborated with the Germans, without his knowledge that the prize was being awarded to a Jew; - Card issued in the name of Jean Claude Croitoriu (Edith's brother), born, 1940, entitling him to receive textile goods, 29 July...

File Number : 537

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : French

Testimony of Paul Pinchas Ben-Shaul Reichmann, born in 1934 in Lille, France, about his wartime experiences as a boy in hiding in France, the Champery refugee camp, the home of a Jewish family in Lausanne, etc.

German occupation ensues in 1940; family tries unsuccessfully to escape to the south of France (to Rue); escaping back to Lens in 1940; escaping to Paris; escaping to Piot in 1941; attempting to run the border with the family to the Free Zone of France; arrested by the Germans; trial and detention in a lockup in Biarritz in 1941; father detained separately; released and returns to Paris for several months; another attempt to escape to the south of France; escaping to Benejacoq in 1941; life in hiding there; transferred with help from the French resistance and the Jewish MJC organization to a convent in...

File Number : 13616

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Roger Avraham, born in Strasbourg, France, 24 March 1927, regarding his experiences in Clermont Ferrand, in the framework of the underground in Lautrec, in hiding in Ligny en Brionnais, and in other places Life in Clermont Ferrand, 1939-1942; life in a camp of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France (Jewish Scouts Movement in France) of the underground in Lautrec; life in hiding while hidden in the home of a French farmer in Ligny en Brionnais, until August 1943; escape to France; move to Morocco; life in the French Army in the context of the Allied forces in central Africa and in Italy; move to Lyon,...

File Number : 8285

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Marcel Oren Tanenbaum, born in 1932 in Strasbourg, about his experiences as a boy in Strasbourg, Vichy, an OSE children's home in Brout-Vernet, and in hiding in Longre Les Corps until 1944

Life before the war in parents' home; membership in the Adas Yisroel congregation; refutes from Eastern Europe arrive in 1938; city evacuated; witness escapes with family to Vichy; family receives a permit to stay there as refugees from Alsace-Lorraine; helped by the Jewish community; father inducted into the French Army in December 1939; French Army surrenders and Germans capture father; witness placed in an OSE childrens's home in theChateau de Morelles in Brout-Vernet; home managed by Dr. Alexandra Bass; attends school; father returns from internment in December 1941; German army invades French free zone in...

File Number : 13599

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana

Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana Personal documentation belonging to Fredji Sassi Zana, born in Sfax, Tunisia, 23 January 1921; arrest by German soldiers while en route to his home in the early 1940s; ordered to defuse a bomb under gunpoint by the Germans; miraculous defusing of the bomb; forced labor at defusing bombs; receives a letter of commendation from his superior officers; appointment as a team leader; death 22 October 2007. The documents were submitted to Yad Vashem by his daughter, Miriam Ben Dor.

File Number : 523

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : French

Testimony of Tzili Gold Dobrin Simon, born in 1925 in Berlin, about life under a false identity in Chambery, Grenoble, and Lyon

Life under Nazi rule in Berlin in 1933; reaching Paris with her family in 1938; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping and returning to Paris; hiding from deportation by the French police and escaping with family to the Free Zone in southern France in 1942; living in the La Bourboule resort town in 1942; assistance from residents and mayor; moving with a sister to Chambery in 1943 under a false identity with help from the French resistance and the Zionist movement; moving to a farm as part of a Zionist training pogram, Toulouse Lautrec, Grenoble; moving to a pension run by the French resistance in Lyon in...

File Number : 13574

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations

Testimony

Testimony of David Desider Steinmetz, born in 1925 in Satu Mare, Romania, about his experiences in Heide, Oostende, Marseille, the Les Milles camp, and other locations Life before the war; offspring of a Satmar and Sighet Hasidic family; emigration to Belgium in 1937; life in Antwerp; attending a yeshiva in Heide; German occupation ensues in 1940; escaping to Oostende; bombardment of Dunkirk; escaping to Gravelines in 1940; fleeing back to Antwerp; life under German occupation; escaping to Paris in 1941 after receiving a deportation order in Limbourg; escaping to Marseille (in the Free Zone) in 1941; life...

File Number : 13437

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dr. Robert Goldstein, born in Paris in 1933, about his experiences as a boy in Clichy, Paris, at a boarding school in Fontenay sous Bois, and in hiding in Neuilly Plaisance

Testimony

Testimony of Dr. Robert Goldstein, born in Paris in 1933, about his experiences as a boy in Clichy, Paris, at a boarding school in Fontenay sous Bois, and in hiding in Neuilly Plaisance Father is arrested and escapes from Hungary to France in 1924; father's activity in Béla Kun's Communist Party (1919); boyhood in Clichy in the 1930s; father volunteers for the French Foreign Legion and is sent to the front in 1939; father is wounded and taken prisoner, escapes in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1940; life under occupation; family changes its name to Goslan; escaping with the family to Paris; life in the...

File Number : 13458

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf

Testimony

Testimony of Dov Bene Weiss, born in Bekescsaba, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Bekescsaba Ghetto, Budapest, Auschwitz and Muehldorf Life in Bekescsaba. Deportation to the Bekescsaba Ghetto; transfer to Budapest; life in Budapest; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Muehldorf; camp life.

File Number : 13370

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Sapirstein Sapir, born in Paris, France 1933, regarding his experiences in Paris and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Sapirstein Sapir, born in Paris, France 1933, regarding his experiences in Paris and his aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship Life in Paris. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the "Exodus" ship [1947].

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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