Le Vernet d'Ariège concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564183
• English
• 1939-1947
• 28,060 digital images, JPEG 21 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year 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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501990
• English
• 1940-1944
• 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm digital images,
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains alphabetically arranged files on individuals interned in the Vernet camp.

1. Vera Lechtman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37082
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Identification tag issued to four-year-old Marcel Lechtman in 1944 while in the care of a children’s home in Switzerland run by Margaret Locher, after escaping France with his mother, Tonia, and sister, Vera. The tag is engraved with his name and birthdate, the name of his foster parent, and the address of the home. Marcel was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France, to Russian and Polish parents, who had immigrated to France from Palestine as a result of being forced out for their communist activities. His father, Sioma, fought for the Communist International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, ...

1. Vera Lechtman collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37081
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Identification tag issued to six-year-old Vera Lechtman in 1944 while in the care of a children’s home in Switzerland run by Margaret Locher, after escaping France with her mother, Tonia, and brother, Marcel. The tag is engraved with her name and birthdate, the name of her foster parent, and the address of the home. Vera was born in Paris, France, to Russian and Polish parents, who had immigrated to France from Palestine as a result of being forced out for their communist activities. Her father, Sioma, fought for the Communist International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and was subseque...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1838
• English
• 1942-1943
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital contentThis collection contains Julius Essinger's correspondence (including translations) sent to his family whilst he was interned at Camp de Noe and Camp de Vernet d'Ariege in occupied France in 1942/1943. He was later deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where he perished.Correspondence in which Essinger writes about the conditions in the camps and the scarcity of food; his gratitude for clothing, food and money sent by relatives; the fate of other inmates; family matters; his fear of deportation; and hopes to ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502038
• English
• 1940-1944
• folders 7
• Updated 1 year ago

The Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence consists primarily of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Margaret Klein from her parents and sister in Heidelberg and then Gurs, Les Milles, Nexon, and Masseube. The correspondence documents the family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States, money and parcels received by the family members in the camps through Quaker and Swiss relief agencies and an uncle in Switzerland, daily camp life, and news of family members and friends. Additional letters and postcards are addressed from Heinrich Klein in Masseube, Gurs, Noé, and le Vernet to Dr. ...

1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum oral history collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504606
• English
• 3 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

1. Oral history interviews of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516926
• English
• 3 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90259
• English
• 1943
• 5,568 digital images, JPEG 4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The papers of René Hirschler consist of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from the office of the chief chaplain. Included are letters to the network of regional chaplains and auxiliary chaplains, individuals interned in internment camps, hospitals, in the Groupements de Travailleurs Etrangers (foreign labor battalions). Also included are letters to individuals involved in the effort to provide assistance to foreign Jews in France during World War II; to Vichy government officials and to Jewish and non Jewish organizations. The collection is fragmentary and covers only the last nine m...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1018
• English
• 1940
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

Report on conditions in Camp du Vernet, Ariège , France, written by Francois Bondy. This typescript report about life in  Camp du Vernet, Ariège , France, is in French and dated 2 August 1940, Geneva. It has been annotated 'Not for Publication', 'Confidential'. Bondy also adds as a postscript that the facts contained in the report can be confirmed by the 'six Swiss who were repatriated with him'.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn512947
• English
• 1940-1946
• 18 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains records on internees in the Noé, Récébédou, Vernet, and Brens camps. Records include name, date and place of birth, and (occasionally) date of internment. The collection also includes information about the administration of the camps; arrests and deportations; the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs; and legislation concerning Jews and Freemasons.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn507424
• English
• 1885-1967
• 39 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains police records, including files on national security, the General Secretariat of the Police, the campaign against “terrorism” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin), the personal records of various public figures, newspaper clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents. More specifically, the ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522454
• English
• 1938-1946
• 8 microfilm reels, 16 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains records pertaining to the administration and functioning of the Saint-Suplice, Tarn, and Bren internment camps together with documents related to prisoner transfers to and between Gurs, Graulhet, Noé, Récébédou, Eysses, Septfonds, Nexon, and Le Vernet internment camps. Also includes documents pertaining to French Freemasons, Nomades (i.e. Roma-Sinti), and refugees in Tarn.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514976
• English
• 1913-1970
• 46 microfilm reels, 16 mm 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains administrative records related to the internment camp in Le Vernet, France. Also contains records related to German war crimes committed in France and records related to Jews seeking refuge in France after 1936.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90258
• English
• 1939-1945
• 3,906 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection relates to the situation of the Jews in France during German occupation. The collection pertains number of subjects including: anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps, religious, cultural and everyday life in the camps, the resistance movement, protests against anti-Jewish persecution, clandestine press, legal press, identification cards including the production of false identification documents as part of the resistance movement.