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  1. Selected records from the National Resistance Museum, including the Leibovici collection

    This collection contains the personal archive of Raymond Leibovici, a French doctor of Romanian descent, who was instrumental in creating the wartime resistance network Comite Medical de la Resistance (CMR) in the highly conservative medical milieu. Included are biographical information; publications from the Comite national des medecins (1944-1948); the Editions de minuit; clandestine publications produced by the national front from 1941 to 1944; and documents concerning the Services de Sante des FFI and the FTPF, the Military government of Paris and Military Region of Limoge. A set of rec...

  2. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime

    Contains a variety of documents pertaining to the wartime experience in the Charente-Maritime including, but not limited to, the preservation of law and order, expropriation of Jewish property and businesses, suppression of Freemasonry, operation and placement of anti-aircraft batteries, operations of internment camps at La Palice and Saintes, German propaganda, resistance activities, refugees, civilian evacuations, war crimes, liberation, and the internment of Spanish, Jewish and Roma.

  3. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Hérault

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35834
    • English
    • 1936-1958
    • 41,779 digital images, JPEG 8 microfilm reels, 16 mm 7 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in. 33 pages of photocopies,

    Contains documents pertaining to the systematic persecution of Jews in the Hérault, the creation and operation of internment camps for foreigners at Agde, Ceilhes-et-Rocozolos, and Olargues; documents pertaining to foreigners, particularly Spaniards; the dissolution of secret societies, notably the Freemasons; name lists of laborers, including Jews employed by the Ministry of Labor; documents concerning forced labor of North Africans, foreigners, and Jews; roundups and arrests of Jews with expropriation of their property and Aryanization of their businesses; information on the Cambous child...

  4. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lozère

    Contains documents pertaining to the Rieucros camp and other camps in the Lozère used to house persons including foreigners, Jews, prostitutes, refugees, and Communists. Includes internee files and information pertaining to the operation of the camps.

  5. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Yonne

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35836
    • English
    • 1921-1947
    • 15,255 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels, 16 mm 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm 2 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 25 pages of photocopies,

    This collection contains records of the internment and forced labor of Roma in the rural area of the Yonne; the former Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes train station, used to intern refugees from the Spanish Civil War and subsequently Roma; the internment in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens of Jews, Roma, and foreigners expelled from coastal "zones interdites"; the internment in Vaudeurs of "subversives" and black-marketeers; the use of the jail in Auxerre as way-station for Jews being sent to Drancy; and the internment in the Caserne Goué military barracks in Auxerre of accused Nazi collaborators after...

  6. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Marne

    This collection contains documents concerning the Centre de rassemblement de Langres (Center for grouping together “enemy aliens” at Langres during the “drôle de guerre” 1939-1940); internment camp at the Fort of Peigney, for Roma; Camp de Chalons; and Camp de Germaines. Also included is the transfer of Roma from Peigney to Arc-en-Senans (Doubs), and when that was closed, to Jargeau (Loiret). It also contains documents from a Special Department concerning Jewish Questions including: census, special inquiries, mandatory wearing of the Jewish star, the Group of Foreign Workers (GTE), Aryaniza...

  7. Selected records from the Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais

    Documents on the expropriation of Jewish-owned property in the Pas-de-Calais; information on Jews living in the area, their businesses, the wearing of the Jewish star, and the confiscation of radios belonging to Jews.

  8. Youth Organization (Lwow Branch) (Hehaluta Haklal-Zioni), Fond 455, Opis 1

    The collection contains records related to cooperation with other Zionist organizations worldwide, records related to activities of the local branches of the organization and regional Zionist organizations across Eastern Galicia, including vocational and agricultural training for the Zionist youth immigrating to Palestine. This collection also includes a list of the members of the organization who completed agricultural and professional training before their immigration to Palestine.

  9. Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów branch (Fond 332, Opis1)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with immigrants residing in Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) regarding immigration to Palestine and preparation of immigration documents. These documents are organized alphabetically by surname of applicant or chronologically. The collection also includes correspondence with the Central Palestine Bureau in Warsaw and various Jewish and Zionist organizations worldwide regarding immigration, visas for immigrants, regulations and laws concerning immigration to Palestine. In addition, this collection also includes statistical information about i...

  10. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Réunion

    This collection comprises several administrative documents concerning anti-Jewish measures that the Vichy regime applied in the overseas department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

  11. Raymond Douglas Dopp collection

    Consists of one typed official report, entitled "Orientation Training" written before the end of the war after a visit to the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The report gives a physical description and a brief history of the camp, including prisoner arrival and death rates. Also includes information and incidents related by prisoners regarding daily life, torture methods, and medical experimentation. The collection includes a letter, with a copy, written by Raymond Douglas Dopp, who was part of the personnel group who wrote the "Orientation Report," after visiting Buchenwald ...

  12. "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler"

    Consists of an English-language translation of the Hebrew manuscript "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler", originally written and edited by Vered Shakhaf-Golan in 2007. The manuscript describes the history of the Bogler family, originally of Cieszyn, Poland, focusing on Willy and Orah Bogler, who spent the Holocaust in Russia and later immigrated to Israel. The book was translated (save for the last two chapters) by Dalia Frieder, the niece of the Boglers, in 2008. The Hebrew book is available both in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library, and a c...

  13. Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection

    The Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection consist of documents concerning Dr. Salczberger, a Jewish doctor in occupied France during World War II, and his claims against his former landlords in Paris, the Lavergne family, who had denounced him and confiscated his property while he was imprisoned by the Germans. The collection also contains digital images of documents and photographs concerning the love affair of the Lavergne's daughter, Georgette, with a German soldier, Erich Kahnt, and their post war life together. Among the materials related to Dr. Salczberger include testimo...

  14. John Heelan collection

    Consists of twelve photographs from the collection of John Hewitson of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of buildings and barbed wire fencing, as well as photographs of corpses found both in the buildings and on the so-called "Dachau death train."

  15. Staff Sgt. Bernard Kemper collection

    Consists of 51 photographs taken by Staff Sgt. Bernard Kemper, a member of the United States Army, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of reburial, of German citizens forced to tour the camp, and of corpses prior to reburial. The photos are described as having been taken in Leipzig at the “Tigler” concentration camp, though the images are of Buchenwald, near Leipzig. Also includes copies of Bernard Kempner’s honorable discharge and separation record.

  16. Lt. Albert Montenaro collection

    Consists of five photographs taken by Lt. Albert Montenaro, a member of the 4th Armored Division, after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses and of a pyre in which bodies were burned before liberation.

  17. Steinbach family collection

    Consists of one folder containing documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Walter Steinbach and his wife, Friederike Dicker Steinbach, both originally from Vienna, Austria, and their immediate families. Includes a large certificate acknowledging Heinrich Steinbach as a bank director, official documents they filled out prior to immigration, the passenger list for their December 1938 immigration to the United States, and wartime family correspondence.

  18. Herbert Steinhouse collection

    Consists of one photograph and photocopies from the collection of Herbert Steinhouse, who was in Europe working for the UNRAA and JDC after the war. The photograph depicts displaced persons in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp, and the collection also contains photocopies and descriptions of post-war Bergen-Belsen photographs and information about Mr. Steinhouse.

  19. Selected records from the Inspectoratul de Jandarmi Chisinau

    Includes correspondence between the General Inspectorate in Bucharest and the Inspectorate in Chisinau (Kishenev), Moldavia.

  20. Renée de Monbrison diary and Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore memoir

    The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. The memoir also includes copies of letters, documents, clippings, and post-war writings. Also included in the collection is one memoir typed in English by Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore, entitle...