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Genealogical researches.concerning Jews deported from France (not only
French Jews but also the foreign refugees who were arrested in France
and deported) are not easy since some families have been entirely
exterminated. Nevertheless some sources are available to retrieve their
memory and facilitate research. The present page is condensed from the French version, where more details are given.
Summary France:declaration of jewishness, 1941, Marseilledeportees ans victims The french law of May 15, 1985 and the blog Died during deportation. The site of the Journal Officiel. The site Died in the Camps. The site of the French Shoah Mémorial (ex-CDJC) The site Memory of men. The Mémorial of GenWeb Other references including The Memorial of Deportation from Bas-Rhin. Lorraine: Camp of Ecrouves followed by: Usefull adresses NATZWILLER-STRUTHOF Camp Convoi n°50 from Drancy to Maïdanek Convoi n° 73 from Drancy to Auschwitz |
Summary Europe:JewishGenYad Vashem: the Joint. A Letter to the Stars (Austria) Holocaust.cz. Centropa followed by: Usefull adresses |
Declarations of jewishness
June 2, 1941, the Vichy government promulgated the second Jewish status. He orders the registration of Jews in the southern zone, unoccupied. In Marseille, 1621 declarations of the Jews were indexed.They only affect some individuals and families resident and refugees in this city.
DEPORTEES et other victims from FRANCE
The French law of May 15, 1985
After 1945, when it appeared that many deportees had "disappeared", read more
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The Journal Officiel
The death acts rectified according to the above mentioned law are published as nominative lists in the Journal Officiel. The corresponding Website is given by this link.
There is also another (non-official) website, operated on a voluntary basis, with the same information and more, in English : click here
The Website Mort dans les camps
Following a work iniated by Daniel Carouge, Patrick CHEYLAN made a
database with the same
basic informations but classified according to the birth countries :http://www.mortsdanslescamps.com/index.html
At present (march 2010), this site give the death certificate of 56.810 deportees (both Jewish and non-Jewish)
The French Shoah Mémorial (ex-CDJC)
An interesting database concerning the Jew deported from France has been made available since January 2005 by "le Mémorial de la Shoah", new name of CDJC : http://www.memorialdelashoah.org or directly on Click hereThis database contains essentially all information gathered by Beate et Serge Klarsfeld in their book "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" (Paris 1978). it is important to note that in its present state, this database online contains a great deal of errors. Many of these errors have been corrected in the database of the Memorial's library (accessible only on the spot). Unfortunately many of these errors subsist online and on the Memorial Wall: spelling errors, date errors and above all absence of the names of certain deportees (arrested under a false name). There are also the names of some people who for various reasons were not deported.
Other references
Le Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France (édited and published by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978)
Everybody knows this book in which Serge Klarsfeld collected copies of all original lists drawn up by the Drancy administration before the departure of each convoy. These lists mention the surnames and given names of the deportees as well as their birth dates and birth places.
Serge Klarsfeld has promised to publish a new edition of this book, correcting many mistakes and omissions, giving the addresses of the deportees. This new edition would also mention the victimes who died in camps in France or were shot. This new edition would also provide the married women's maiden names.
This new edition is beginning to appear:
The first four volumes of this new edition have been published since the end of 2006. The first one is a thick volume 21 x 29,7 x 3,5 cm, 600 pages, ca.1.700 kg.
Present price: 30 euros. It is published by the FFDJF, Paris, in common with the "Beate Klarsfeld Foundation". To see the cover page, click here
This new edition will comprise 8 volumes, i.e. 80 000 names :
Volume 1 : "Families from the roundup of the Vél d'Hiv", namely the convoys # 4, 5, 6, 13 - 16, 21 - 25.
This volume, as the following ones, is made of two parts with the same information : first the lists in alphabetical order (members of the same family being together) and the second part separately for each convoy.
In this new edition Serge Klarsfeld gives for each deportee : convoy number, surname, given name, maiden name (for wives), age, birth date and place, address (street, street number, city), internment camp.
The lists are preceded by a long explanation concerning the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv, since parents were separated from their children, members of the same family were dispersed and deported by different convoys and often with different spelling of their surname. S. Klarsfeld did his best to reunify these families in his list..
Volume 2 : lists of convoys 1, 2, 3, 7 à 12, i.e. the roundups of Summer 1942 in the "Occupied Zone".
Volume 3 : lists of convoys 17, 18, 19, 26 à 33, i.e. the roundups of Summer 1942 in the "Free Zone".
Volume 4 : lists of convoys 34 - 45, i.e. the roundups of Autumn 1942 in the "Occupied Zone".
Volume 5 : the 17 convoys of 1943
Volume 6 : the 15 convoys of 1944
Volume 7 : list of the people who died in Franc, in the camps and those who were shot ; list of survivors (between 2 500 and 3 000).
Volume 8 : general alphabetical of volumes 1-7 (80 000 names)
The volume already published are available from S. Klarsfeld and from the "Mémorial de la Shoah".
Le Livre-Mémorial des déportés de France arrêtés par mesure de répression et dans certains cas par mesure de persécution 1940-1945 edited by FMD (Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation)
The "Fundation for the memory of the Deportation (F.M.D.) http://www.fmd.asso.fr/ (not to be confused with the Fundation for the memory of the Shoah http://www.fondationshoah.org/), published in 2004 this "Memorial-book of the persons deported from France because of repression and in some cases because of persecution."
This work is totally independent from Klarsfeld's book. It has 1500 pages. An alphabetical index allows one to retrieve easily the name of a deportee and the convoy number and eventually the fate of the deportee, whether he came back or not, where and when he died.....
This book does not contain the lists of Jewish deportation contained in Klarsfeld's book.
Nevertheless, many Jews are found in this book if they were arrested as resistants, without the Germans knowing they were Jews.
About the deportation of Jews from Lorraine
Our member Françoise JOB has just published a new edition of her book "La déportation des Juifs de Lorraine, Le Camp d'Internement d'Ecrouves", Ecrouves is a small village near Toul , which was the equivalent of Drancy for Lorraine. More than 4000 people were interned there within three years.
The camp was created by the Vichy government to gather opponents such as communists, gaullists and Resistance fighters but later the Germans took the camp in charge and used it to gather arrested Jews before they were sent "for an unknown destination.... ".
The book is published by the "Fils and Filles des Déportés Juifs de France" and is prefaced by Serge Klarsfeld.
On the front page of the book, a picture shows a group of 25 Jews interned at Ecrouves. Only two of them have been identified up to now. The author urgently asks anybody who can identify other members of the group to inform her.
The memorial of Bas-Rhin
Daniel Fuchs, one of the two authors of the "Memorial of the Deportation of Bas-Rhin", that the CGJ has in his library, has posted his work with the cooperation of friendly and competent team of the Judaïsme Alsacien site.
Usefull adresses :
Camp de NATZWILLER-STRUTHOF
We have several times be asked informations concerning the Camp of
Natzwiller-Struthof, unique extermination camp situated in France,
about 50 km from Strasbourg.
The CRDP of Reims présents a very good presentation of this camp (in
French):
http://www.crdp-reims.fr/memoire/enseigner/Natzweiler_Struthof/01site.htm
On the other hand, Jewishgen has just put on line
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Natzweiler/nat001.html
a document (in English) extracted from the book "Die Namen der Nummern"
(The names of numbers), written by a German newspaperman, Hans-Joachim
Lang, who spent several years to identify 86 victims of experiments
which were found in this camp (where thousands of deportees died) at
the end of WW2, from the number tattooed on their arm and who wrote
their individual histories. The list of these 86 victims is found on
this site. They are mainly of Greek origin but a few came from other
countries, including a Frenchman. The site of Jewishgen gives a link to
the site of the book "Die Namen der
Nummern" where are given the
biographies of the 86 victims (in German) :
http://www.Die-Namen-der-Nummern.de/
The text published by JewishGen contains a few mistakes, which will
soon be corrected. The remains of these victims were first buried in
October 1945 in the Municipal Cemetery of Strasbourg Robertsau and
transferred in September 1951 in the Jewish Cemetery of
Strasbourg-Cronenbourg. Two plates have been officially inaugurated in
November 2005, giving the names of these 86 victims, one at
Strasbourg-Cronenbourg, the other one on the external wall of the
Anatomy Institute of the University Hospital of Strasbourg.
Moreover, the Great-Rabbi Abraham Deutsch was not present in November
2005 since he died in 1992.
Convoi n°50 from Drancy to Maïdanek
Our member Ernest
Kallmann obtained and exploited unpublished documents concerning the
preparation of the reprisal
convoy #50 that left Drancy on March 4, 1943 towards Maidanek.
These documents, once analyzed with the help of other members, bring
new information on what happened to foreign Jews in France during the
war. It
appears that out of the 920 people involved, the fate of 73 people,
still alive at that time, is unknown.
The result of this study is available on the site «
Un exil
ordinaire » devoted to the French internment camps (1939-1945)
at the
address http://www.jewishtraces.org/rubriques/?keyRubrique=le_convoi_50
Convoi n°73 from Drancy to Auschwitz
http://www.convoi73.org Courriel : webmestre@convoi73.org
DEPORTED et other victims from EUROPE
.Shoah on Jewishgen
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/Yad Vashem : the Pages of Testimony (Daf Ed in Hebrew)
Yad Vashem is an institution created by the State of Israel in 1953.
Since 1955, it gathers pages of testimony in Israel and all over the
world to save from oblivion the memory of the Jews who did not survive.The Pages of Testimony are sent to Yad Vashem by parents or friends of the missing people. They contain biographical details on the victims. Thirty thousand new Pages of Testimony are collected each year. About three millions have been collected since 1955.
The whole of these Pages of Testimony can be consulted on line on Yad Vashem's site. Several entries are available for a research: surname, given name, birth date and birth place, place of residence during the war.One can enter the site of Yad Vashem http://names.yadvashem.org/ or directly on the research page
Informations given in these Pages of Testimony are very interesting and also, quite often, those concerning the person who send the testimony, with his/her address.
The Joint website
The American Jewih Joint Distribution Committee has supported since 1945 the Jewish "displaced persons" involved in their resettlement when they did not want to return to their country of origin. This site is an online collection of documents concerning their emigration.
"A Letter to the Stars"
The site publishes a database of victims of the Holocaust in Austria.
The Holocaust.cz website
This site is an online collection of documents relating to the Holocaust in the Czech Republic, mainly concerning missing persons in Theresienstadt.
Centropa
This website Centropa collect testymonies about Jews from Eastern Europa. Choos for example a family name.
Yizkor books
The New York Public Library published many Yizko books.
Usefull addresses :
Yad Vashem :
P.O.B. 3477, Jérusalem, Israël 91034
Tel. : (0 )2 675 16 11
Fax : (0) 2 643 35 11
Website : http://www.yadvashem.org/
E-mail : info@yad-vashem.org.il