Gurs concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507327
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of a copy of "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942" written by Roswell McClelland, a representative of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), in 1942 or 1943. The "Unpublished chapter..." is McClelland's personal account of the round-up of foreign Jews in France during 1942 under the direction of the Germans, including a deportation from the Les Milles camp in August 1942. Included in the piece are descriptions of various French concentration camps, the treatment of Jewish children, the division of age groups for depor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn95169
• English
• 2008
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "As I Recall," written in 2009 by Albert Erlebacher, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, deportation in 1940 to Gurs, transfer to Rivesaltes, and being removed from the camps by the OSE. He describes life in the Villa Mariana and Chateau de Chabannes OSE homes, crossing the Swiss border on foot, and his life in Switzerland. Also includes information on his post-war emigration to the United States and later educational, personal, and professional experiences.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500141
• English
• 1940-1944
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

An English translation of Rosa Mayer-Murr's German language diary, "Meine Campzeit, 1940-1944," 29 pages. Author describes her experiences in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502749
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500381
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Contains a typescript copy of a memoir written by Eva Bamberger Stahl's father, Curt Bamberger, entitled, "A Chemist in the Internment Camps of Vichy-France," which described how he used his skills as a chemist (he worked for IG Farben until 1938) to assist inmates at Gurs and St. Cyprien concentration camps.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610274
• English
• 1916-1960
• folders 8
• Updated 2 months ago

The Abraham family papers contain documents and photographs pertaining to Walter and Ruth Abraham, a German-Jewish family, as well as their siblings and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of identification papers such as birth and marriage certificates and identity cards for the Abraham family. Also included are post-war identification material for Walter’s mother Elsa Abraham, and a declaration of death for Ruth’s mother Henriette. Other documents include documentation for Ruth’s sister...

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1344
• English
• 1979
• 1 folder
• Updated 9 months ago

This report is described as a translation of a report to the Director of the VAD. The original is thought to have been in German. It is not known what the VAD is. Paul Loebl spent time in Belgium and in the concentration camps of St. Cyprien and Gurs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514422
• English
• 1971
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Aerial photograph of Camp de Gurs, France. There is a map and caption in German handwritten in pencil on the verso. A stamped caption reads: "Cimetiere des Deports / De Gurs (France) - Vue générale. / Deportationsfriedhofs Gurs / Frankreich - Gesamtansicht."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44181
• English
• 2011
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The Albert Garih testimonies consists of two testimonies written by Albert Garih in 2000 and updated in 2011. The first testimony describes Albert Garih’s personal experiences as a hidden child in France. The second testimony describes the experiences of Benjamin Garih, Albert’s father, who was sent to a forced labor camp on the Channel Islands.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44159
• English
• 1926-2010
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International Tracing Service, the Red Cross, and various attorneys, the latter including both personal compensation claims and the class-action suit against the French national railway, the SNCF.

• Wiener Holocaust Library
• WL1811
• English
• 1980-1989
• 1 folder
• Updated 9 months ago

This collection consists of the personal account of Alix Preece, a German Jewish refugee who had been living in France since 1927 and spent most of the duration of the Second World War there. She was interned for several months at Gurs before moving on to Marseilles where she was hoping to get a Brazilian visa to join her family. As her visa extension was refused she eventually managed to go to Portugal and from there to Algiers where she met her future husband. In her eyewitness account she provides a detailed description of the conditions at the camps in Gurs and Pompart, Marseille. Also ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564183
• English
• 1939-1947
• 28,060 digital images, JPEG 21 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 2 months ago

Records of the Kehillat Haharedim (Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews). Consist of correspondence, letters, list of refugees and internees, lists of students, lists of members of Kehillat Haharedim in Paris, bulletin of the organization, financial records, questionnaires, statistical reports, and minutes. Most of records constitute of correspondence with children's homes, internees of camps, rabbis, with the organizations as: the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF), Hias-Ica Emigration Association (HICEM), World Union OSE (OSE), Federation de ...

1. Gert Wollheim collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn403
• English
• overall: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 12.375 inches (31.433 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Man in peasant dress giving bread to a woman with 2 small children through a barbed wire fence drawn by Gert Wollheim while a prisoner in Gurs internment camp in late 1940. The French established Gurs, the largest internment camp in France, in April 1939 to hold political refugees. In early 1940, about 4000 German Jewish refugees were interned as enemy aliens. Wolheim, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, was arrested by the French in spring 1940 as an enemy alien. France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. Northern France was controlled by the Germans and southern France, where Gurs w...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50732
• English
• overall: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50745
• English
• overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.625 inches (37.148 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50744
• English
• overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50743
• English
• overall: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 14.125 inches (35.878 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50741
• English
• overall: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50740
• English
• overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

1. Jacob Barosin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn50739
• English
• overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)
• Updated 2 months ago

Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...