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Children and mothers getting off buses on arrival in the camp. Tracking shot of "camp garden," people working with hoes. Men in hospital beds; sick people arriving from Gurs camp. People eating in dining hall. Mail passed out. Elderly men and women walking outdoors.

Watercolor created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1994 depicting the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked for Suisse Secours aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children] as a nurse in 1941-1942. The Vichy regime, which governed unoccupied France, interned thousands of refugees in detention camps. By spring 1942, Rivesaltes was a central transit point for the frequent deportations of Jews to killing ...

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; ...

General views of men working in unidentified internment camp, tracking shot of men hoeing. Wounded men pose. Infirmary with wounded men (matches photo from Récébédou). Women moving into barracks (probably Rivesaltes). Women sewing and washing. CUs of faces. Mail distribution. Children peeling potatoes. Elderly men at camp, CUs. Elderly couples walking (maybe Rivesaltes). Eating in large dining room. ...

Simone Lipman (1920-2011) was born Simone Margaret Weil in Ringendorf (Bas-Rhin) to Abraham and Jeanne Weil. She moved to Strasbourg at age three with her parents and her brother, Roger. In 1941, Lipman began relief work with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) at the concentration camp at Rivesaltes. When Rivesaltes closed at the end of 1942, she began working at the Poulouzat children’s home near ...

Collection of documents pertaining to Shlomo Reutlinger's family who escaped Pforzheim, Germany to Cuba. Shlomo was sent from Germany to Belgium and then to Palestine in 1940. Included in the collection is Shlomo's grandfather's passport and documents from Gurs and Rivesaltes which include description of life in these camps. List of inmates in Rivesaltes, postcards and handwritten manuscript giving ...

Bernhard Goldlust (1896-1943) was born in Łopuszno, Poland to Rifka and Leib Goldlust. He married Manja Biederman (also known as Malka, born in Łopuszno, 1894-1942), daughter of Perel and Ziskind Biederman. Bernhard was a tailor and owned a clothing business in Konstanz, Germany. He and Manja had two children, Leo (b. 1924) and Paula (later Paula Blue, 1930-2008). During Kristallnacht in November 1938, ...

Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, ...

Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00132 at Kazerne Dossin

Contains letters written between December 1940 and September 1942 by Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss in concentration camps in France, addressed to Clara's sister and her husband, Recha and Wilhelm Reutlinger, in New York City. The letters contain information about the conditions in the camps; the Dreyfuss's experiences in Gurs, Les Milles, and Rivesaltes; and their unsuccessful quest to leave Europe. Each ...

Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer, 1924-2016) was born in Freiburg, Germany to a Jewish family. She fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 where she remained for the duration of the war. Her parents were interned in the French Nazi concentration camps of Les Milles and Rivesaltes. After the Holocaust, she worked as a research analyst for the American military during the International Military Tribunal ...