The papers consist of documents and materials relating to H.W. Katz, his wife Friedel (née Kramer), and their daughter, Eve. Includes identity papers, demobilization papers, receipts, letters of recommendation, safe conduct passes, visa information, and correspondence related to the family's escape from Paris to Marseilles, life in Marseilles, and escape in 1941 to Lisbon to await the ship that took ...

George Blau (Vienna, Austria, 17 Nov. 1911-1999) was born to a Jewish family. He left Austria at an unknown date and settled in Marseille, France, where the authorities picked him up and had him interned in Les Milles, France. Released on 18 Sept., 1939, he was interned again, from May to Aug. 1940. At the end of Mar. 1941, Blau fled to Martinique, then to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, ...

Issue 166, Part 3: Good aerial shots of American staging area of tents, equipment. GIs loaded into transport, then board ship in Marseilles for war in Pacific. Served food by Red Cross worker. Men line rails of ship. LS, ship pulls out.

Carel Sternberg was a Czech law student in France when the Germans took over the country. He fled Paris on a bicycle just ahead of the German Army. He was already a part of the International Relief Association when he partnered with Varian Fry and became a central player in the Marseille, France, operation of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Carel Sternberg continued a life-long association with what ...

Scope and content: Een jonge vrouw die in 1940 voor het Duitse fascisme vlucht, probeert vanuit Marseille naar Mexico City te ontkomen 208 p. ; 21 cm.

Collection consisting of 11 letters and one postcard received by Gertrude Rubin [donor's mother] while she was living in hiding in France, after she was able to leave the Rivesaltes internment camp with help from the French resistance. Collection includes letters and a postcard written by Selma Rubin [donor's grandmother] to her daughter, sent from Rivesaltes internment camp in France, June-July 1942; ...

The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in ...

Collection includes a hatbox, which Miriam Davenport Ebel (the donor) took to France with her in June 1938. At one point, she lived for five months using only what was packed in the box. Steamer sticker on box is that of the Companie Generale Transatlantique's SS Champlain. In addition, the collection includes a musical score written by Hans Sahl, 1938, Zurich, Switzerland and purchased by Miriam Davenport ...

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Funeral ceremony, including speeches, display of flags, parade, church scenes. Civilians and soldiers watch. Mr. Gassowski assassinated in Marseilles?

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls ...

Werner Goldsmith was born in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1928. Werner's father, a textile salesman, died in 1938, and Werner and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany. Werner's mother placed him in the Auerbach orphanage for safety while she lived with another Jewish woman in West Berlin. Werner's mother arranged for him to be placed on a transport to France, and she, as a widow, was able to travel ...

Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

The material pertaining to Hermann Seligman consists of: orders and instructions to the Jewish community in Germany which were distributed by the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; a letter from the American consulate in Hamburg; and information regarding their settlement of Jews in Terezín (a.k.a Theresienstadt). Additional material in this collection consists of a letter from the American ...

The collection consists of 91 sketches by Lili Andrieux depicting life in several internment camps and collection centers in France from 1941-1942: Camp de Gurs 1940 - 1941; Police Center Hotel Terminus du Port, Marseille - 1942; Les Milles - 1942.

In this interview Sauveur Eskenazi talks about: his youth in Marseille, France ; his family's arrest and their internment in the camps Royallieu near Compiègne and Drancy near Paris ; their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ; his life as a forced labourer in Auschwitz, Warsaw and Dachau ; his liberation in Plzeň (Pilsen) by the Soviet army and his repatriation to France ; his post-war family life in ...

The Walter Saunders papers contains correspondence with Walter’s parents while they were in Marseille and Les Milles. The documents contain reference letters, naturalization certificate, and an Austrian citizenship certificate. The photographs include portraits of Paul and Klara while at Auschwitz, a group photo with Paul at Camp Gurs, a young Walter with his brother Kurt, and a younger Paul while ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1940 Übertragung der von verschiedenen Dienststellen noch bei Kriegsbeginn wahrgenom‧menen Aufgaben eines Rundfunk-Abhördienstes auf den "Sonderdienst Seehaus" (benannt nach seinem Sitz im "Seehaus" in Berlin/Wannsee): zuständig für die Nachrichtenbeschaf‧fung und -auswertung durch das Abhören ausländischer Sender; ab 1941 Anschluss an die Deutsche Auslandsrundfunkgesellschaft ...

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