Drancy concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524395
• English
• 2007
• folder 1 , 1 CD-ROM,
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech Brigade and spent the war fighting with the British Army, while his mother, Chaja Sklovsky, was deported from Drancy in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust. In 1947, Mr. Sklovsky immigrated to...

1. Bernard Nissenbaum collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502874
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, ...

1. Jean-Louis Steinberg collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522996
• English
• 2004
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of 55-page memoir entitled "Out of four, only one returned: The destruction of a family, 1940-1945," written in French by Dr. Jean-Louis Steinberg and Daniel Périer and translated into English by Madeleine Steinberg. In the memoir, Dr. Steinberg, originally of Paris, France, describes his family history, experiences in the occupied zone of France, resistance activities, deportation to Drancy, and then to Auschwitz in 1944, resistance activities within Auschwitz, experiences on a death march to Dora, and life after liberation. The original French memoir was published in 2004 as "De...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5263422
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 66 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Alain Raoul Mosse, born in Paris, France, 1920; details regarding his activities in the Jewish underground in France during World War II Employed as director of the Savoie District Governor's office; dismissal from his job following anti-Jewish legislation by the Vichy government; volunteers to serve on the OSE (Children's Aid Society) board; OSE activities in Montpellier, Chambery and Aix les Bains; provides forged documents to Jews without French citizenship; help from bureaucrats in government offices; arrest in Chambery with OSE members, 08 February 1944; transfer to prison; interrogati...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5263408
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 10 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Alice (Levi) Salomon, born in Paris, France, 1890; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Marseilles; Jewish underground activities, 1943; directs the La Verdiere OSE (Children's Aid Society) children's home; deportation of a group of children to Drancy; volunteers to accompany the children to the camp; deportation on Transport 62 to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943; perishes in Auschwitz. In the file: - Photograph of Alice Salomon; -Testimonies.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501995
• English
• 1940-1944
• 35 microfiche,
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

1. Waldman family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn619222
• English
• overall: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Armband worn by George Waldman while he was held in Compiègne internment camp in France, from December 1941 to July 1943. George, Betsy, and their teenage son John were American citizens who lived in Paris to manage their paper import-export business. On September 3, 1939, in response to the German invasion of Poland, France declared war on Germany. In May of 1940, Germany invaded and quickly defeated France, occupying the northern half of the country. Despite their Jewish heritage, the Waldmans were left alone by the Germans due to their American citizenship. In response to the attack on P...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5222522
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 20 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Aron Kremer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1904; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Life in Paris including medical studies for six years; work as a journalist on the "Pariser Haint" newspaper; closing of the newspaper, 1940; Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) and Colonie Scolaire (The Summer School Camp) activities. German occupation; continuation of organization activities; help to children; transfer of forged documents and ration cards to Jews in hiding; arrest in Dijon, 1942; identification as a Jew; deportation to Pithiviers; transfe...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5265869
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Ernst Ascher, born in Liebemuehl, Germany, 1921; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities in the Dutch underground, from 1944; smuggles inmates out of Westerbork; smuggles Jews and persecuted non-Jews into Belgium, France and Spain; arrested 19 July 1944; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Buchenwald, 17 August 1944; liberation by the Allies. Return to the Netherlands, May 1945. In the file: - Summary of his activities.

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5222394
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 16 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Aurelie (Polturak) Gottlieb, born in Lwow, Poland, 1892, known as Rella; details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II FSJF (Federation of Jewish Societies in France) activities in Lyons; arrested in the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) office by the Gestapo, 09 March 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz; murdered in Auschwitz. In the file: - Photograph; - Letter; - Documents; - Excerpts from testimonies.

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5222425
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 7 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Danielle Bainvelzweig, born in Lyons, France, 1920: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Dismissal from work in the educational system; work as a kindergarten teacher in the Aide aux Meres day care center in Saint Etienne until 1942; joins La Sixieme (the Sixth) of the EIF (French Jewish Scouts); arrest, October 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz, 20 November 1943. In the file: - Photographs; - Excerpts from testimony.

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5222510
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 31 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Dr. Abraham Bantchewsky, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1890, details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Work as a physician; evacuation from Paris with his family, June 1940; escape to Marseilles; life in Marseilles; maintains contact with the local resistance movement and the Comite Rue Amelot (Amelot Street Committee) in Paris; arrest in Marseilles with his son, Victor, 1943; deportation to the Compiegne camp with his son; transfer to Drancy with his son; transfer to Sobibor; murdered in the gas chamber in Sobibor with his son. In the file: - Photog...

1. Norbert Orgler collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn560462
• English
• overall: Height: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Edition of the Belgian Official Gazette from January 8, 1950, recording the legal declaration of death for Norbert Orgler, a Jewish German shop owner. Norbert, his wife Auguste, and son Siegfried fled Cologne, Germany, for Antwerp, Belgium, days after his store was destroyed during Kristallnacht in early November 1938. Three of Norbert’s brothers, Leopold, Israel Jacob, and Josef, also fled to Antwerp with their families. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, and Norbert and his brothers were considered enemy aliens and were arrested by Belgian authorities. They were deported to Saint C...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5223347
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 11 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Berthe (Weyl) Hirsch, born in Strasbourg, France, 1907: details regarding her activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Activities as a social worker in Paris in the Les Hospitalieres-Saint Gervais school and a clinic on Deux Ponts Street; joins the resistance movement, 1941; membership in La Sixieme (the Sixth); activity as an intelligence agent within the Armee Volontaire; arrest by the Gestapo at Saint-Michel in the Tarn et Garonne region, 18 October 1943; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz on Transport 62; awarded the Medaille de Guerre, Medaille de la Re...

1. O.89 - Collection of Personal Files of Jewish Underground Fighters in France

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5247906
• English, Hebrew
• xerox 5 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Georges Bloch, born in Strasbourg, France, 1922; details regarding his activities in the French Jewish underground during World War II Agricultural studies in Paris; membership in EIF (French Jewish Scouts) in Strasbourg; EIF membership in Bordeaux; joins a farm near Angers, 1942; arrest at the farm, 16 July 1942; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Auschwitz on Transport 8, four days later; death in Auschwitz. In the file: - Photograph of Georges Bloch; - Excerpts from a testimony.

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, יולי 1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5655276
• English, Hebrew
• Original 10 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing information from various sources regarding the experiences of the Jews in Europe during the war and afterwards, July 1946 Bulletin issued by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee containing: - Excerpt from a letter written by a survivor in France regarding his experiences during the war, dated May 1945; - Testimony of two women regarding their deportation to the Drancy, Ravensbrueck and Auschwitz camps, reported in Paris, April 1945; - Information regarding the fate of the Jews on the island of C...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, יוני 1944

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5656236
• English, Hebrew
• Original 27 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the German occupied countries of Europe, June 1944 Murder of Jews in Belzec; the number of Jews deported from Poland, 1943; information regarding the Jewish partisans in Poland; information regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania during the war; reports regarding the situation of the Jews under German occupation; testimony given by Spiegel, 20, a young man who escaped from Krakow, September 1943, regarding the "A...

• Mémorial de la Shoah Fondation
• COH/0005
• French
• 1941-1944
• 18 boîtes
• Updated 6 years ago

Le fonds est surtout constitué de correspondance entre la préfecture, le commandement du camp et les autorités d'occupation pour le transfert des internés d'un camp vers un autre, de notes internes émanant du commandant juif du camp de Drancy, d'ordres de déportation ainsi que de listes provenant du ministère des Anciens combattants. Il comprend aussi un organigramme des services du camp de Drancy au 23 juillet 1943 et des correspondances échangées entre des prisonniers de Stalag et des internés de Drancy.

1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616385
• English
• overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Unused set of handwoven buttons brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. The buttons were likely from one of Herta’s family member’s clothing businesses: either lingerie made by her parents, Arthur and Pauline, or children’s clothing made by her sister, Hilda. Herta lived in Vienna with her parents, and four siblings: Hilda, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. In August 1914, Arthur was selected to fight in World War I, and three months later, he died of tetanus. As a result, Pauline closed the business, Hilda began making childr...

1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616387
• English
• a: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) c: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) d: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) e: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Partial set of handwoven buttons brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. The buttons were likely from one of Herta’s family member’s clothing businesses: either lingerie made by her parents, Arthur and Pauline, or children’s clothing made by her sister, Hilda. Herta lived in Vienna with her parents, and four siblings: Hilda, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. In August 1914, Arthur was selected to fight in World War I, and three months later, he died of tetanus. As a result, Pauline closed the business, Hilda began making child...