From Paris, Hi Ilya, "Memoire des hommes" (Keeping memory of soldiers, resistants, deportees,..) is the official service of French Ministry of Defense (Army) in charge of history and archives. https:/

#france

From Paris, Hi Simon, You could ask Auschwitz camp archives : http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-prisoners/ With this advice, available for Arolsen archives : these two institution display onlin

#general #holocaust

Hi from Paris, Before giving my point on death certificates in Gurs camp, I ask you this question: even in our democratic nations, how many deaths will be really referenced as Covid victims? As our st

#germany #france

Hi from Paris, As I wrote recently on this forum, there is a lot of historical papers concerning Jews' fate around Nice during Shoah. Unfortunately (nobody is perfect !) most of these documents are in

#france #holocaust

Hi from Paris, I reply in English to be understood by most of our fellow detectives. When persons lived in France for some decades, as Daniel Stenberg did, there is a high probability they became Fren

#france #romania

Hi from Paris, Two days ago, you had the perfect answer in post #643578 by Jenny Schwartzberg : May 28 #643578 "A lot of these phone books are searchable at: https://genealogyindexer.org/ A list of th

#poland #warsaw #belarus

Hi from Paris, Dear Shelley, A French investigation journalist reported on "Jewish white slave trade" in Argentina (1927). To be compared to Joseph Pulitzer, Albert Londres (1884 – 1932) was a French

#latinamerica

Thank you Megan, thank you Howard for your quick answer. But I must be more precise : I know these ID cards of ghetto workers have been indexed by a team of JRI-Poland and we can get a person's card o

#lodz #holocaust

Hi from Paris, You may know Lodz ghetto's Jewish administration left 800.000 pages of archives. These archives have been microfilmed (ca 700 reels) and are available at USHMM where I discovered them .

#lodz #holocaust

Hi from Paris, Hello Ellen, hello Krzysztof, You can get a much easier access with our alphabet to same Polish index by using this link to one of Stephen Morse's portal, thanks to his work : https://s

#russia #poland

Hi from Paris, Dear Fred, In France, each new publication, newspaper, book,... must do a legal deposit of one or two items to French National Library. It was a way to get free a sample of any new publ

#yiddish #usa

Hi from Paris, Dear Melissa, I have checked some French archives before answering you about Moses GOLDSTEIN's dramatic fate between Nice and Auschwitz and I will try to be clear for foreign researcher

#france #holocaust

Hi from Paris, Dear Margalit, Concerning DP's camp in Germany, I am sur you will find answers by contacting Bad Arolsen archives. In this place, Allied forces collected every piece of paper found afte

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Hello Joanne from lockdown in Paris, Concerning names spelling, always remember that our ancestors left Yiddishland countries to other places : there, their name was phonetically transposed from Russi

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I reply in English even both of us are in France, nobody is perfect... Dear Sandrine, My first point is about your "naturalization record" : do you mean only reference of the "decree" published in our

#names

Hi from Paris, Dear Solomon, If your unfortunate uncle died in a Displaced Person camp (DP's camp) in Germany, I am almost sure Bad Arolsen (former International Tracing Service) archives should have

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Hi from Paris, I agree with Pieter, but you must also check when this researcher had logged for the last time : date is written in the box. I should say that if a date is too old, hope of a reply is s

Hi from Paris, At least a detective searching Rottersman family ! This is a quite rare name and I couln't find any parent to "Hirsch Rottermann" who is in my tree. I opened your file and you have some

Hi from Paris, dear Alberto, I used twice Yad Vashem "page of testimony" to reach the author and share with him some informations about one of our "Losts". Each time, I sent a letter with my own data

Dear Evelyne, More than 6000 pictures about former daily life of Jews living in Paris area have been collected by the French association "Mémoire juive de Paris" , now located at Memorial de la Shoah