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  1. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Vosges

    Contains documents concerning “Jewish Affairs,” arrests and round-ups on March 6, 1943 and March 14, 1944, the transfer of Jews to the Ecrouves internment camp near Nancy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Aryanization and later restitution of Jewish property and belongings, foreigners, the loss of French citizenship concerning the deputy to the National Assembly, Camille Picard, registers showing entries to the Epinal prison, documents concerning accounts held by Jews at the local branch of the Banque de France, lists of Alsatian-Lorrain refugees, and list of prisoners released from the prison...

  2. Solomon Baicovitz collection

    Consists of typed testimony, 10 pages, written by Solomon Zalman Baicovitz, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. He describes pre-war antisemitism, the establishment of the Kovno ghetto, and life in the ghetto, including witnessing several aktions. He created a hiding place and managed to hide his mother and daughter from an aktion in March 1944 before successfully placing his daughter in hiding outside the ghetto in May 1944. In July 1944, he was deported to Dachau. In April 1945, he was sent on a death march from which he escaped, and was liberated on April 29, 1945. He reunited with ...

  3. Selected records of the Romanian Ministry of Interior, Cabinet of the Minister (Cabinetul ministrului)

    Contains excerpts from records concerning Iron Guard activities, surveillance of Jews, interment of Jews in camps, deportation of Romanies and Jews to Transnistria, notes concerning the ghettos in Transnistria, and forced labor in Ragat. It also includes postwar documents on the confiscation of property and on war criminals.

  4. Selected records of the Romanian Ministry of Cults and Arts (Inv. 2720)

    Contains records relating to the status of various Jewish communities from the old kingdom (Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, and Banat); correspondence of these communities with the Ministry; damages to synagogues and other religious property; the Iron Guard rebellion, conversion of Jews to Christianity including to Catholicism; and name lists of converts. Also contains records of the Ministry of Cults and Arts, including correspondence regarding the freedom of Catholics, Baptists and Jews, and sending of priests to Transnistria.

  5. Selected records from collections of the Constanţa branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains wartime records of the Prefecture, the Regional Inspectorate of Police, the Police HQ, the Legion of Jandarmerie, and other organizations, and postwar records of the local Jewish Democratic Committee (Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc, CDE), including activity reports, personal files, and other reports (1946-1952).

  7. Selected records from collections of the Hunedoara branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains prewar and wartime records of various local police organizations, including reports on Jews and other minorities, treatment of Jews, Ayranization, and deportations to Transnistria. It also includes postwar material on emigration to Palestine, measures to prevent further killing of Jews, Jews under forced labor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Deva Jewish Democratic Committee’s (CDE) correspondence with Jews, with the Joint, and with central Jewish authorities.

  8. Selected records from collections of the Braşov branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committee (CDE) of Braşov (a.k.a. Stalin), containing reports of meetings, name lists of members of the CDE, and name lists of Jews who returned from Transnistria. Also contains wartime records of local Braşov governmental organizations such as the prefecture, police, and the Legion of Jandarmerie. These include correspondence about the Iron Guard rebellion, name lists of Jews forbidden to return to Romania during the war, and correspondence concerning control of Jews and Roma, for example, case such as the confiscation of a radio. Also cont...

  9. Census of Jews in Arad, Romania, 20 May 1942

    Contains two series: 1. List of Jews christened or considered to be Christian per the law of 9 August 1941; 2. List of Jews of mixed marriage.

  10. Leo Bach collection

    The Leo Bach collection consists of an untitled memoir (326 pages) and copies of photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Leo Bach (born Leo Silberbach), originally of Krakow, Poland. In his memoir, Leo Bach gives extensive descriptions of the history of Poland, his family, his memories of pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion of Poland. He describes life under the German occupation, his experiences in the Krakow ghetto, Płaszów concentration camp, Starachowice, Auschwitz concentration camp, a death march to Buchenwald concentration, and his liberation from Dachau concent...

  11. Eugene Shelton collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Corporal Eugene Shelton, who participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Includes a photograph of corpses, a one-page testimony written by Cpl. Shelton about his experiences, and a large hand-drawn map of the movements of the 355th Infantry Regiment, which participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf.

  12. Selected documents and photos from the private collection of Raoul Cohen-Addad

    This collection comprises the records of Raoul Cohen-Addad (1916-2003), an Algerian-born Jew. Conscripted into the French army in 1939, he worked with the resistance to liberate Algeria in 1942. He was then deported to a forced labor camp under the Vichy regime. The collection includes personal and family papers, photos, documents pertaining to the judicial procedures Cohen-Addad instigated in an attempt to receive reparations for damage to his career, documents concerning the association of former North African resistance fighters from 1947-1949, the activities of the “Association of Frenc...

  13. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cher

    Contains documents concerning the internment of Jews and foreigners, as well as border crossings between the free and occupied zones by Jews and foreigners in the Cher.

  14. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Belfort Territory

    Contains documents pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property in The Belfort Territory during the war and restitution and indemnification issues after the war. Also contains the diary of Henriette Bloch, a Jewish school teacher whose son, Julien, was captured as the Bloch family attempted to escape into the Jura.

  15. Oral history interview with Hildegard Lee

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Gers

    Contains material concerning measures taken against Jews, foreigners, and Freemasons in the Gers. Includes files on expropriated property, name lists of refugees and prisoners, antisemitic legislation, and Monsignor Saliège, the Archbishop of Toulose.

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Hautes-Pyrénées

    Contains material related to the use of forced labor, expropriation of Jewish property, exclusions preventing Jews from practicing medicine or dentistry, antisemitic legislation, and measures taken against Freemasons in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

  18. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Indre

    Contains records from local offices including the Prefect’s office and the Police Department dealing with foreigners, the “Jewish question”, the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones, and refugees, including those from Alsace-Lorraine. Documents from the sub-prefecture of La Châtre (3 Z) are also included, as well as the “Internernent Administratif” section dealing with the camps of Pellevoisin and Douadic. Also contains information on an OSE-created clandestine center to place Jewish children in non-Jewish families in the “chef-lieu, Châteauroux,” lists of arrests and ...

  19. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes concerning Palestine

    Contains a collection of diplomatic dispatches sent to all French diplomats during the period 1938-1949 concerning Palestine. Various subjects discussed include: illicit immigration to Palestine in 1939 (the exodus of Polish Jews toward the Levant); surveillance of the activities of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in October, 1939 and his "escape"; Zionist politics; a letter from the French Ambassador to Turkey in 1942 to the Admiral of the Fleet under Vichy in 1942 on the "Strouma Affair" [Struma]; "Jewish Terrorism in Palestine," dated November 9, 1944; the evolution of the Palestinian econo...

  20. Circulo Israelita in Bolivia records

    Contains photocopies of various documents and newspaper clippings related to immigration of Jewish people to Bolivia and creation of Jewish community in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.