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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material describes, in the main, the fate of Polish Jewry during the Nazi era. It was extracted from Polish archives in London. In addition there is an extract from a captured German archive and a typescript account of a French ...

Consists of one memoir, 24 pages, in French, entitled "When there is life, there is hope," by Marcel Chagnac, originally of Nancy, France. Mr. Chagnac was arrested in an attempt to escape to Switzerland in 1942 and was sent to Drancy. He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 and was quickly sent to the Goleszów (Poland) labor camp. He was forced to participate in a death march to Oranienburg ...

15:51 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Mrs. Alice Arnault, née Zohar, to the stand; the civil party presents herself to the court 15:52 Mrs. Arnault describes her arrest in July 1944, by a member of the Gestapo; he explained to her that she had been denominated by someone called 'Le Boiteux,' and that there was a 5,000 franc prize on her head; she was quickly transferred to Montluc, and then ...

The Simon Drucker memoir consist of a single typed page relating Drucker’s arrest during the Velodrome d’Hiver roundup; his internment, escape, and re-internment in nearly a dozen prisons and concentration camps in France, Poland, and Germany; liberation; fighting in the first Arab-Israeli war; and beginning his life again in Paris.

17:03 President Cerdini resumes the hearing 17:05 Cerdini deposits into the record a magazine article written by Vergès in 1987, presented to the court by the prosecution 17:05 Cerdini calls another witness, Srul Kaplon, to testify, and he presents himself to the court; Mr. Kaplon is a civil party in the suit against Barbie 17:06 On March 23, 1943, the witness was taken by two Gestapo agents to the ...

Traces the story of 44 Jewish children hidden in Izieu up to 1944 when they were deported to Auschwitz through Drancy. Recalls that it was the initiative of Pierre Laval of the Vichy government to deport the children under 16 years of age. Describes the activities of Sabine Zlatin, of Polish-Jewish origin, who rescued these children from various camps and hid them in Izieu. In April 1944 the children ...

This fonds includes correspondence of the Chief Rabbi of Belgium during the Second World War (as representative and head of the Vereniging der Joden in België – Association des Juifs en Belgique) including a list of Jewish teachers in Brussels, a list of Jews from Ghent, and correspondence with imprisoned Jews in internment camps in Limburg. This fonds also includes documents such as activity reports ...

Memoirs of a French Jew (b. 1937 in Avignon), who was granted access to the local archives in Le Pontet, Vaucluse in 1990. There he discovered that French collaborators were responsible for the arrest and subsequent deportation of his mother, Sarah (b. Goldstein, 1904). Lewendel's mother was transferred via Drancy to Auschwitz with transport 76, and perished in the gas chambers. His father, Meijlech ...

Marcel Pierre Lob (1902-1990) was born on 12 May 1902 in Paris, France to Gaston and Lucie Levy Lob (1872-1944). He had two siblings: Mathieu (b. 1898) and Stephanie. His brother Mathieu married Gilberte May and they had two daughters, Francine and Huguette. His sister Stephanie (b. 1905) married Ernest Carrance (b. 1894), and they had three children, Jacqueline (b. 1929), Jean-Jacques, and Bernard. ...