Pages:
39 + 34 + 35 pages :
,
typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
1974
Keywords:
Gurs (Concentration camp)
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Jewish refugees.
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Photographers.
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Women authors.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
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United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Edited transcript and an English language translation of a memoir, originally written in German in 1941:
Abstract:
Recollections of the war years in France. Marriage with Rudolf Sachs in 1940 during the time of his internment as enemy alien. Yolla Niclas Sachs was taken to the Gurs internment camp. Escape from the camp to Oloron. Yolla lived in hiding with an elderly woman, whom she helped with the work on the fields. Search for her husband. Reunion with Rudolf Sachs at the "Centre des Isoles" (center for the dispersed soldiers) in Le Journet. Rudolf was transferred to another military camp in St. Antoine-Albi. Difficulties to obtain the exit visa to the United States, which permitted her husband to leave the camp. Yolla eventually succeeded in receiving the visa. They emigrated to the USA on board of the ship "Winnipeg", which left the harbor of Marseilles in May 1941. The ship was stopped in Martinque and all German and Austrian emigrants were taken to British internment camps in Trinidad. After their papers were checked they were permitted to continue their journey to the United States. Yolla Niclas-Sachs and Rudolf Sachs arrived in New York in June 1941.
Abstract:
Also included are photographs taken in war-time France.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German and English
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Synopsis in file
URL:
Photographs from Rueckblick und Blick in die Ferne
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