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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Gurs (Concentration camp) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2273
Abstract

This is a constructed collection of items related to the internment and concentration camps in France in operation during World War II. The bulk of the materials relate to the Gurs camp and stem from 1940-1942. Other camps mentioned are St. Cyprien and Vichy. Materials include correspondence, photographs, personal accounts, lists of prisoners, a death certificate, clippings, reports and minutes of relief organizations, poems and songs, and reproductions (photographs, photocopies, and slides) of artwork depicting Gurs.

Dates: 1940-1989

Ingrid Decker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11676
Abstract

Three essays by Ingrid Decker are bound together into one illustrated typescript. They all report about Jewish German survivors of the Holocaust and their emigrations to Mexico and to the Dominican Republic.

Dates: 1910-1984

Jacob Barosin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25275
Abstract

This collection documents the academic, professional and private life of Jacob Barosin (1906-2001), a painter and artist of Russian-Jewish descent. Barosin was raised in Berlin, but he fled to France in 1933 and in 1943 survived a stint in the Gurs concentration camp. The collection primarily contains correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, official documents, personal papers, and photographs.

Dates: 1892-1999; Majority of material found within 1926-1973

Levy - Mayer - Scherman family collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25634
Abstract

This collection documents the survival of Alfred, Meta, Marlyse and Theo Levy during the Nazi regime in the Saar, Luxembourg and France. Amongst others it encompasses the voluminous correspondence between the Levy and the Scherman families during World War II and their restitution papers. The register of surviving members of the Jewish community in Saarbrücken after 1945 is one of the remarkable documents in this collection.

Dates: 1928–1981; Majority of material found within 1940-1971

Lina Rosa Braunthal Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25176 / MF 1013
Abstract

Official documents, correspondence and photographs (photocopies) pertaining to Lina Rosa Braunthal and her deportation to Camp Drancy and to Auschwitz.

Dates: 1917-1960

Rosa Traub Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25900
Abstract

The collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Rosa Traub and some of her extended family members. Included are Rosa Traub’s diary from Camp de Gurs, a photocopy of her identity card, her handwritten last will and testament, and other items, such as documents pertaining to her nephew Max Liebmann and photo negatives of Albert Einstein.

Dates: undated; 1920-1950s

Seidenberger-Sondhelm Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10520
Abstract

The collection contains primarily documents pertaining to Carl (Karl) Seidenberger (1882-1943), such as vital and other official records and correspondence. Also included are papers of his wife, Else Seidenberger née Sondhelm (1897-1996).

Dates: 1872-1987