From Paris to Tsuri, WWII started 1939, September 2nd. Phoney war ended in May 1940 when Hitler invaded Belgium, Nederlands then France (Blitzkrieg, May 10th - June 14th). On June 14th, Nazis entered

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Hi from Paris, Dear detectives, This forum is a very powerful tool and when you have a question, always ask you if there isn't already a reply somewhere... Use hashtag or key words to recover past ans

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Hi from Paris, Daniela, Concerning Paul, I can add these facts : he was Austrian : thus he was citizen of a foe when WWII started on 1939, September 2nd he was surely obliged to register and be detain

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Hi from Paris, Dear Andrew, Lodz was a large industrial and modern city mostly involved in textile manufacturing to Russian market. This market was lost after WWI (due to German occupation, 1916, then

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Hi from Paris, Dear Joelle, A search on "Charleville" with Wikippedia gives 3 results in France: · Charleville #1, a very old town (established 1606) of Ardennes (Department, Dpt, 08), melted in Charl

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Hi from Paris, Dear Oliver, As soon as I read about Jewish German refugees in Marseille in 1941 who could board a ship to Portugal, then USA, I ask myself this question: was Varian Fry involved in the

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From Paris, to Judi Missel, Hi Judi, Hirschfeld isn't a so common name in France. So I check for living descendants in France with our official white pages : https://www.118712.fr/ I get 12 persons na

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Hi from Paris, Searching Michnel Beserglik for Deborah According to my previous answer, point 1.1.1., I attach copy of the two pages of "French Journal Officiel (JO)" edited on July 3rd, 1938 where na

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Hi from Paris, Dear detectives, As I have told often on this forum, privacy is very well protected in France : no hope to enter a name as we do on "Ancestry" for USA and then discover data registered

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Hi from Paris, To be sure you are aware of all possible books, Brody's Yiskor Bukh has been translated in English and printed by JewishGen YB project in June 2018. Full title is :" An Eternal Light :

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Hi from Paris, According to various French genealogical web sites, "Lajous" is a rare name, only 560 persons born since 1890, mainly in South West counties near Pyrennées mountains and Spanich border.

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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:/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 .

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