En septembre 1940, Simon Hercenberg, juif d'origine polonaise, passe la frontière pour se rendre en Suisse. Il est arrêté à Genève, emprisonné, puis libéré par le caporal Fernand Demierre. Celui-ci l'accueille chez lui et le met en contact avec les services de renseignements suisses puis avec l' ( ). Basé en Suisse, mais opérant en France, Simon Hercenberg travaille aussi avec les réseaux Kléber et ...

Armband isssued to and worn by Julien Engel as identification for group of 60 children transported to the U.S.A. aboard "Athos II" leaving Marseilles September 1946 under the auspices of the French-Jewish aid organization, O.S.E. (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants).

Hierbij een fotokopie van een getypte lijst van namen van terugkerende Nederlandse gedeporteerden aan boord van de Monowai van Odessa naar Marseille. Deze lijst is opgenomen in de NIOD collectie, archief 250K

Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful ...

Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. ...

The collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Asna Hirschmann, born 1922, Pinsk, Belarus and Max Lutwak born 1922 in Dortmund, Germany. Collection documents their individual experiences during and after the Holocaust. Asna was interned in the Kovno Ghetto, the Vaivara camp in Estonia in August 1943, then Stutthof concentration camp in ...

Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful ...

De geïnterviewde (Essen, 1930) wordt bij de grote op 20 juni 1943 opgepakt, samen met haar zus en zwager, en naar kamp Westerbork gedeporteerd. Haar ouders zijn intussen vanuit Essen (Duitsland) naar Theresienstadt gedeporteerd en de geïnterviewde vertrekt (zonder zus en zwager) op 14 september 1943 met een transport, zogezegd richting Theresienstadt, maar (voorlopig) eindigend in Bergen-Belsen. Na ...

Consulaat-generaal te Vichy (Frankrijk) > INVENTARIS VAN HET ARCHIEF VAN HET CONSULAAT-GENERAAL EN HET OFFICE NEERLANDAIS, 1940-1942 > ALGEMEEN > Brieven, ingekomen van en uitgegaan aan de onder Vichy ressorterende Offices Néerlandais, het Nederlands Vluchtelingen Commissariaat te Marseille en het Centre d'Accueil te Lessac, betreffende de eigen organisatie,

Lena Fishman Fagen was born Lena Fischmann in Russia. Before World War II, she worked in Paris at the Liaison Committee for the High Commissioner for Refugees. She fled Paris when the Germans invaded, made her way to Marseilles, and found work with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. She escaped to the United States via Lisbon with Fry's help in December 1940 and continued her work for the ...

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XIII, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Joseph and Miriam Pressel, who, with son Philip, were originally of Belgium, and the experiences of their immediate and extended families. The Pressels fled Belgium for France in 1939 and survived the war in Marseille, Lyon, and Paris. Includes wartime letters from the Pressels to Eli Schwerner, an uncle of Miriam ...

Natan Lakhovitzky (born, Simferapol, 17 August 1902, died 24 August 1992) and Vera Lakhovitzky, nee Strachinsky (born Odessa, 1 February 1905, died 24 May 1973) left the Soviet Union in January 1927. Since they were unable to obtain a rabbinical wedding there in Russia, they were married in Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 June 1927, and immigrated to France the following year, arriving in Strasbourg in October ...

Tekening in zwarte inkt getiteld 'De avonturen van een Engelandvaarder'. In twaalf illustraties met onderschrift zijn de lotgevallen van een Engelandvaarder afgebeeld. Getekend door M. Appelboom in Londen, juli 1943. 1. Illegaal passeren Nederlands/Belgische grens. 2. Nederlandse diplomaat in Vichy-Frankrijk zegt "Had maar in Holland gebleven''. 3. Vrijlating uit gevangenis in Lyon door hulp Nederlandse ...

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler. He was the voice of Movietone News.

“American Friends Service Committee.” “Views of some of the activities in and around Marseille May 1942.” “France May 1940.” Flames engulf various buildings, with billowing black smoke. Various collapsed buildings. Civilians leave the city en masse, loaded into trucks or walking. People are carried on stretchers. Large crowds of people sleep in a large, crowded room. CU of various children sleeping, ...

Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued ...

The Czech finding help Nr. 1043 is online available under http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/813/