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Internment camps -- France

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6668
Abstract

This collection consists of photocopies of memos and reports of the German occupying forces in France concerning deportations and other measures against Jews living in France. The documents were compiled by the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporain and sent to the American Joint Distribution Committee.

Dates: 1941-1944

Ernst Scheuer and Rosi Moses-Scheuer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25281
Abstract

This collection contains documents, diaries and personal correspondence of Ernst Scheuer and Rosi Moses Scheuer. They document their life in Paris and their imprisonment in French detention centers in 1939-40 and in Spanish prisons 1940-41. The documents illustrate the struggle for U.S. Visas and the subsequent emigration to the United States, as well as the efforts to establish themselves in New York. The collection also contains numerous manuscripts written by Ernst and Rosi Scheuer, a large number of them being autobiographical.

Dates: 1870s-1999

France (concentration camp) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3987 / MF 836
Abstract

The bulk of the collection is an assembly of various reports, amounting to a document of 907 pages in ten sections: the reports originate mainly from the "Comité de Coordination pour l'Assistance dans les Camps" (CCAC; also known as "Comité de Nîmes") and other organizations, such as the “American Friends Service Committee” (AFSC) and YMCA pertaining to foreign – particularly Jewish – refugees in unoccupied France during WW II.

Dates: 1938-1998

George H. Asher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6555/MF 766
Abstract

The collection holds the professional and private documents of George Harry Asher. The emphasis is on correspondence, writings and official papers. Advertising proofs reflect Asher's work and career. Prominent among the material is an autobiographical sketch and correspondence between Asher and his mother, shortly before her deportation in 1941. The collection also holds material, such as correspondence, manuscripts and articles about Oskar Maria Graf, a close friend to Asher.

Dates: 1907- 1996

Margaret Gabali Rosenfelt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25414
Abstract

This collection contains personal papers of Margaret Gabali Rosenfelt (1912-2005), including official documents as well as correspondence with family, German and French authorities, and her friend Rudolf Schneider, a Stuttgart architect. A diary and memoirs are also included.

Dates: 1912-1989, 2005, 2010

Philipp Auerbach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25383 / MF 1000
Abstract

Private and official correspondence as well as various writings pertaining to Dr. Philipp Auerbach

Dates: 1941-2002