Marius Fiche
Engaged as a volunteer in the Foreign Legion, Marius fought during the First World War and was wounded three times. He was naturalized French in 1938, then denaturalized in 1941.
During the occupation, Marius, Catherine, their daughter Marie and her husband and three daughters took refuge at 22 rue de L'Harmonie in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis). All are arrested and interned in Drancy.
Marius Fiche was arrested and interned at the Drancy camp on 8 December 1942. He was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 11 February 1943 by convoy 47.
Catherine Fiche, Marie Zélinsky, her husband
On January 25, 2019, Sylvain Briano, great-grandson of Marius Fiche, presented to the Memorial two paintings by his great-grandfather, including one depicting a scene of agricultural work in the commune of Drancy and completed on August 14, 1941.
By researching the letters written to Birkenau,
To read the article dedicated to this discovery and the transcription of H. Strasgogel’s letter click on this link.
Mathilde Gosset was born on 5 March 1916 in Sofia (Bulgaria). She is the daughter of Aaron and Suzanne Samuel, all three living in Constantinople. In 1923, they moved to Bucharest due to the Greek-Turkish conflict. Mathilde began her medical studies there, but the wave of anti-Semitism forced her to interrupt them and leave Romania for France.
In Paris, she meets a medical student, Jean-Robert Gosset. They married in 1938 at the French consulate in Romania, then returned to France. Their daughter Françoise was born in 1940. They reside in the 15th arrondissement. Following the census, Mathilde receives two yellow stars. A commissioner informs her of the danger that she is now in. Mathilde does not wear her stars. The couple and their daughter move to Versailles at the home of Jean-Robert’s mother, then in the 16th arrondissement.
As a medical student, Jean-Robert worked at the railways and in various hospitals; he was part of a network that made up lung x-rays to avoid the Service du Travail Obligatoire for some French people. It is this group that has disguised the identity papers that Mathilde Gosset, mother of Jean-Robert, had declared as lost to make them available to Mathilde Gosset née Samuel, wife of Jean-Robert.
After the war, Mathilde returned to her building in the 15th arrondissement and learned from the concierge that in July 1942 the police had come to arrest her during the raid on the Vél d'Hiv. Mathilde and Jean-Robert also have a son, Christian born in 1944, and a daughter, Geneviève born in 1948. Mathilde brings her parents to Paris in 1948.
Geneviève Dulau née Gosset donated to the Holocaust Memorial in early January 2019 yellow stars from her mother (photo) that were never worn.
Born in Ukraine in 1909,
At the end of November 2018,
Preface to the journal by Henri Burg
To the Health on 18 February 1943
Preface
Today, after more than two months spent in the prison of the Health of Paris, I feel the need to write my impressions and my reflections. Solitude, so conducive to thought, invites me to this work. Occupied until today by the worries of daily life, I have hardly had time to think. The struggle for existence was hard and left me with no leisure. It took imprisonment, isolation from the outside world, to put my ideas in order. Not very talkative by nature and even less inclined to confidences, I would like to fill this gap by putting in these pages a little of myself. So I dedicate this journal to my beloved wife, who fights with such dedication for my release and helps me through this very painful time. It is to her that I owe my courage and my willingness to overcome obstacles. Faith in her and our love is the stimulus of my life.
The journal will not be simply a daily account of my stay at La Santé; it will also provide an overview of my past, the balance of my life. And finally I will note my thoughts and feelings about the people who are dear to me and also about the people around me.
Could I crystallize my character by studying my past activity and reactions to events and people?
This will indeed be my desire to be able to give a purpose to my life.
Born 22 February 1912 in Paris,
Rudolph Grinberg was born in 1922 in
Jacob Knobel
The family is arrested on 5 December 1940.
Rifka and Bernard were interned at the Vauban fortress in Besançon until 7 February 1941, the date of their release and that of other British subjects. They are arrested again in January 1944 and interned at Drancy then at Vittel.
Jacob, after his arrest in December 1940, was interned at the fort of Romainville until the end of 1940, then at Drancy from 30 December 1940 to 25 July 1941, finally at the barracks of Saint-Denis, because of his British citizenship, until the liberation in August 1944.
In November 2017,
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On 22 January 1944,
In 2010, during a move to the Lycée La Fontaine, letters and a photograph of Louise were found in a cupboard. With the help of a journalist, a teacher from the school recreates Louise’s story. On 3 March 2017, in agreement with the school, all the documents are handed over to the Shoah Memorial to ensure their conservation.
Discover the webdoc by Stéphanie Trouillard,
Abram Korenbajzer
Liba and Aline are arrested on
Liba and Aline are interned in
In September 2017,
Transcript of letter from Liba Korenbajzer
My dear brother and sister-in-law.
We are talking about sending the children to public assistance, please have mercy on my beloved child, claim it and take it with you she will be safe because you are French, and we mothers talk of sending us to Poland, I probably won’t survive it but Aline at least will live, do not refuse me, Aline is my only reason to live. Please I beg you, here there are all kinds of diseases that she will catch. I am already exhausted, 5 nights that I do not sleep so much I think of Aline. My yellow face is pitiful to everyone, but they can do nothing, because they have no order. Aron and Bella you love her, protect her like a mother because you have children and you understand what it is for a mother. If she goes to public assistance, she will die and this thought makes me crazy. She sleeps on the floor not on wood in the morning she asks for a bottle of milk and imagine my pain when I do not have one. Do something for her, claim it. I can’t write anymore, I’m too weak. I kiss you and my little doll.
Regine and the kids are with me.
Kisses
(As part of the
Georgette Bensaid recipe book
Jules Bensaid
Following anti-Jewish
All are deported
Left alone, Marc is welcomed by a neighbour, Germaine Combecave, until the
This document was discovered in Toulouse as part of the
Adolphe Gottschak
In September 1939, he was on duty at the time of mobilization. He was wounded in December 1939 and was hospitalized in Rambouillet (Yvelines). He was demobilized in September 1940 in Lectoure (Gers).
He goes to different cities (Montluçon, Montpellier, Toulouse, Toulon, Nice...) where he looks for a job and plans to enroll in the faculty. He uses false papers made out in the name of
On 28 October 1943, he left France via Spain and was
He returned to Paris in January 1945 where he met his wife
Adolphe Gottschak’s niece,
In 2016
On this object it is written «To my dear niece Rosette, from your uncle who loves you and always thinks of you. Simon».
On the second pen holder, which remained in the possession of Mr. Hanoune, the inscription is almost the same, only the first name changes. These feather holders had to be made in the camp of Pithiviers by
Claude Ungar
pen holder: it could be
Drawing by Guy Stern, commissioned by Sylvie Ottié at the Memorial
Born on 30 August 1918 in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne),
After being enlisted in the army at the beginning of the war, Guy and his future brother-in-law Jacques Frombaum called "Jif" left France via Spain. Guy invents a false name, Stervan. Guy and Jacques separate. Guy is part of the army of General de Lattre, participates in the landing of Provence, the campaign of Italy, and the arrest of Romel’s son in Germany.
On his return, he will be reunited with his parents, his fiancée Colette and Jacques Frombaum. Nathan Frombaum (father of Jacques and Colette) was deported from
Guy was a cartoonist. His daughter,
Drawing by Guy Stern, commissioned by Sylvie Ottié at the Memorial
Drawing by Guy Stern, commissioned by Sylvie Ottié at the Memorial
Karl (Charles) Michel was born on 22 December 1891 in Edeheim (Germany). In 1922 he married Georgette Caen. Their daughter, Hilde, was born in Cologne in 1923. Karl is the director of a department store in Darmstadt.
After his first arrest, he fled Germany in 1933 and joined his parents-in-law, Edmond and Mathilde Caen, in the Moselle. In 1934, he moved to Marcq-en-Barœul (Nord) with his parents-in-law. His wife and daughter joined him. He ran a department store. He asks for French citizenship in vain.
Arrested in 1939 as a German national, he was interned in Haubourdin and then released because he married a French woman.
During the occupation, the family fled to Limoges. They obtained false documents in the name of Maret.
Hilde is interned in the camp of Gurs, then released after two months. Karl is arrested and interned in Saint-Germain-les-Belles (Haute Vienne), then at the camps of Nexon and Gurs. Transferred to Drancy, then deported by convoy 51.
At the end of 2015, Hilde’s daughter, Carole Malapert, entrusted to the Shoah Memorial the original documents concerning her grandfather Karl’s story, including a request for naturalization, a letter from the city of Limoges asking to leave the city, a false identity card, a letter written by Georgette and Hilde addressed to Karl during his internment in Gurs and a label sent by Karl to Georgette from Drancy.
In June 2016, Perle Librati-Dechentinnes, sister of the survivor Maxi Librati, entrusted to the Memorial de la Shoah a drawing by Etienne Rosenfeld made at the Drancy camp dated 1 April 1942 and representing his wife Annette Mann. This drawing was discovered by Madame Librati-Dechentinnes in a flea market.
Born on 25 August 1920 in Budapest, Etienne Rosenfeld was arrested and taken to Drancy on 20 August 1941. He made many drawings during his internment. He was deported to Auschwitz on 14 September 1942 by convoy no. 32. During the evacuation of the Auschwitz camp, he participated in a “death march”. He survived and was repatriated to France on 15 June 1945.
The Shoah Memorial has just received four new archive collections from the
The Holocaust Memorial has signed
These acquisitions are part of a
We will soon receive collections from the State Archives of Pisa, Rome and Turin.
Overview of these collections
Liliana Bucci, known as «Tatiana», was deported on 29/03/1944 by the convoy n. 25T from the Risiera San Sabba (Trieste). On 04/04/1944, at the age of 7, she was in Auschwitz with her little sister Alessandra “Andra” Bucci (aged 5), her mother Mira Perlow, her grandmother Rosa Farberow, her aunt Gisela Perlow and her cousin Sergio De Simone. Tatiana and Andra are sent to the Kinder Block (children’s block) and kept apart for medical experiments because they are considered twins. The two sisters manage to escape without physical violence. Mira and Gisela Perlow also survive in the camp. On the other hand, little Sergio De Simone is murdered in Bullenhuser Damm, near Hamburg, after undergoing medical experiments in the concentration camp of Neuengamme. Grandmother Rosa, aunts Sonia and Paula, uncles Aron Ernesto and Giuseppe Yossi, and cousins Mario and Silvio Perlow also died in Auschwitz or Ravensbrück.
Released on 27/01/1945 by the Red Army, Tatiana and Andra Bucci were first placed in an orphanage in Prague, then in a Jewish educational reception centre run by Alice Goldberger in Lingfield (England). Finally, after a long search by their parents Mira and Giovanni, in December 1946 the family was reunited and moved back to Trieste.
It was in the 1980s that the Bucci sisters began to witness and actively engage for the memory of the Shoah in Italy, participating in commemorations and trips to Auschwitz organized by Italian institutions. Their story is recounted in the book by Titti Marrone entitled
Portrait of the Bucci sisters with their cousin Sergio De Simone (Fiume, 29/11/1943), ©Memorial de la Shoah/Coll. Bucci
From the archives of the Prefecture of Milan and Varese, this collection contains a very large number of documents (92,100 views) on
The period of deportations under Nazi occupation is also well documented: between December 1943 and January 1945,
The Jewish community in Milan has 896 deportees, of whom only 50 have survived.
This collection, which comes from the archives of the
Between December 1943 and August
From the union archives, this collection contains numerous documents (about 17,000 views) on the implementation of
There is also a very rich documentation concerning the activities of the Jewish assistance organization
All these documents are now available in the reading room of the Holocaust Memorial
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In 1975, Serge Mogère, author of comics, visited a house threatened with destruction in Choisy-le-Roy and discovered a beautiful album of old photos, apparently abandoned by former owners. Disturbed by these family photos, the faces and the period costumes he discovered in this album, he decided to keep it. A few months ago, Mr. Mogère handed over this photo album to the Shoah Memorial photolibrary.
A long research work by documentalists and archivists of the Shoah Memorial has finally revealed that these were in fact photographs of the Warsaw-born Punski family from the 1920s to1930, among which were those of a well-known actress, Franya Winter, performed by the Germans in 1942 in the city of Ashmyany (now located in Belarus).
Meryl Frank gives the daughter of Serge Mogère the earrings of Malka Punski
How could these photos have been abandoned in France, in this pavilion of Choisy-le-Roy and rediscovered 70 years later?
The documentalists of the Centre de documentation du Mémorial de la Shoah conducted the investigation and eventually found a member of the Punski family in the United States: Meryl Frank.
This woman, who is also the US ambassador for women’s rights at the UN, sent a family tree that allowed the documentalists to understand that one of Franya Winter’s brothers had emigrated to France in the 1920s and was unfortunately deported by convoy no. 5, leaving behind a woman and a child, To date, we have not found the trace.
Meryl Frank decided to make the trip from the United States to visit the Shoah Memorial for the first time on Thursday, February 18, 2016. On this occasion, she met Serge Mogère, the person who discovered the album of photographs. Both came accompanied by their respective daughters and Meryl Frank wanted to offer the daughter of Serge Mogère a pair of earrings that belonged to Malka Punski, the mother-in-law of Franya Winter, who was also a victim of the Shoah.