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Online Memorial to the Jews Deported from France

User Guide

The online version of the Memorial of the Deportation of the Jews of France consists of a free, bilingual website (French/English), with an interactive search engine. This tool enables to search by any combination of criteria among all fields. Based on the latest published Memorial (Serge Klarsfeld, 2012), its periodic updates offer new complements, corrections and references to other online resources. For more details, read below.

How to search the database?

To search the database, go to the search form here, fill in the fields, then click the Search button. You may type in with uppercase or lowercase characters, with accents and diacritics signs or ignore them all, i.e. typing LEVY or Lévy will yield the same results. If there is no answer, broaden your search criteria and try again. When one or more people match your selection, a table is presented in another window of your browser, with one person per row. To get all the details about a person, click the link on the last name of the person (first column on the left). These details are brought in a separate window, from which you can access the links to the different sites (French Journal Officiel lists, Gedenkbuch, civil records, etc.).

Tips

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The search engine uses the Daitch-Mokotoff soundex (D-M soundex) and the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM) techniques, which allow you to find a person, even when its name, first name and localities are spelled differently from the database. It is also possible to search by filter including convoy, place or date of birth, by last address, etc. By default, the search of surnames uses the BMPM technique, the search on maiden names and birthplaces uses the D-M soundex and the search on given names uses exact spelling. Choose the 'sounds like' and 'is phonetically' options (which respectively use the D-M soundex and the BMPM phonetic matching, to locate the spelling variants of the names, given name, localities or regions.

Description of the database content

The information on each individual person may contain the following details:

Surname: When one name is listed, it is the surname from the 2012 Memorial or its correction. When several names are listed, separated by a vertical bar '|' (e.g. KOLCZEWAKS | KOLGEWAKS), the second surname is either a false identity alias, a suggested correction to the first surname or the spouse name for surviving women who married after the war. It is recommended to search a surname in is phonetically mode (BMPM).
Given name(s): Klarsfeld 2012 Memorial indicates a single given name only. Multiple given names can be found on other sources such as the Journal Officiel lists (see below). It is recommended to search a given name in sounds like mode (D-M soundex).
Maiden name: The surname at birth; occasionally, it may hold the surname of a divorcee spouse, as mentioned in a note.
Sex: male, female or unknown (for less than 200 persons).
Age: at deportation time or at death in France.
Date of birth is in the format DD-MMM-YYYY, e.g. 08-Aug-1915 means August 8, 1915. (note that the form in french uses the DD/MM/YYYY date pattern)
Place of birth: The full place of birth includes the name of the current municipality, its region and country, according to 2014 international borders (i.e. before the invasion of Crimea by Russia).
Clicking on the locality name displays its surrounding area on Google Maps with a Wikipedia description.
The reported region is the current administrative division the birthplace is located in: we used here the départment in France, land in Germany, voivoidship in Poland, county in Romania/Moldavia/Hungary/Lithuania, oblast in Ukraine, oblast or republic in Russia, region in Belarus/Morocco, state in Austria, province in Algeria, governorate in Tunisia, region (kraj) in Czech Republic/Slovakia, canton in Switzerland, etc.
For natives of Paris and Lyon, you can either search per district by indicating the place of birth is exactly "Paris 9", "Lyon 2", or search the entire city without precising the district, stating that the place of birth starts with or sounds like "Paris" or "Lyon".
Former/other name of birthplace: This searchable field indicates the former name(s) of the place of birth, e.g. Kichinev pour Chișinău. Large cities can be searched by their french name, e.g. Varsovie for Warszawa/Warsaw, Vienne for Wien/Vienna.
Town nearby place of birth: A larger town near the place of birth.
Hamlet/neighborhood of birth: Some recorded birthplaces are either small hamlets within a village, or became sections/districts/neighborhoods of a larger municipality, e.g. Borgerhout is now a district of Antwerpen, Caudéran became a neighborhood of Bordeaux, Praga is a quarter of Warsaw, Charlottenburg is now a borough of Berlin. Therefore, in order to search for a person born in Borgerhout, Caudéran, Praga ou Charlottenburg, you should specify in the search form Antwerpen, Bordeaux, Warszawa or Berlin as birthplace, then, using the text search of your web browser with Ctrl-F (Windows) and cmd+F (Apple) in the intermediate table of results the exact name of Borgerhout, Caudéran, Praga ou Charlottenburg. It is also possible that the exact place of birth was not recorded.
Place of birth in Klarsfeld 2012 Memorial: this place is always reported.
Father: To find persons whose name is unknown, or to distinguish between homonyms, an option offers to specify a given name or the surname of the father of the victim, e.g. "Chaim" or "MOSKOWITZ" or "Chaim MOSKOWITZ" or "Chaim Aaron MOSKOWICZ" or "Chaim Aaron". Therefore several search modes are available. The father's name (or any portion of it) is recorded in 20% of the cases.
Mother: To find persons whose name is unknown, or to distinguish between homonyms, an option offers to specify a given name or the maiden name of the mother of the victim, e.g. "Chaja" or "ZADEK" or "Chaja Dwojra" or "Chaja Dwojra ZADEK". Therefore several search modes are available. The mother's name (given name and/or maiden name) is recorded in 23% of the cases.
Spouse: To find persons whose name is unknown, or to distinguish between homonyms, an option offers to specify a given name or the surname at birth of the victim's spouse at the time of the deportation, e.g. "Aaron" or "Aaron Hirsch" or "GOLDMANN" or "Aaron Hirsch GOLDMANN". Therefore several search modes are available. The spouse name is recorded in 26% of the cases. If the father, mother, spouse, children, or siblings of the victim are also listed in the Memorial, a link provides direct access to their individual records. The first names of the children and siblings are listed with their year of birth, in descending order of age. This is a further step in reuniting families, particularly for married women and all those who no longer bore the exact surnames of their relatives. However, I have not included the names of children who were not deported to respect their privacy. The reconstruction of first-degree family relationships is still underway.
Address: Complete last known address in France. Clicking on the street name or the locality name displays its surrounding area on Google Maps.
Searching by street name: for example, "25, Rue de la République", "12 Avenue Gambetta", "Rue Emile Zola", "Pasteur".
Searching by town name: use today's name of the french commune, e.g. "Lunéville", "Châlons-en-Champagne", with or without accents.
For addresses in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, you can either search per district by indicating the town is exactly "Paris 9", "Lyon 2", "Marseille 6", or search the entire city without precising the district, stating that the town starts with or sounds like "Paris", "Lyon" or "Marseille".
Searching by department: choose the French département's name as of today, e.g. "Pyrénées-Atlantiques", "Val-de-Marne"; it may differ from the départment name at war time.
Precedent Address(es): One or more former address(es) or the old street name during the war. For 18% of the individuals registered in this Memorial, one or more of their previous addresses were collected, preceding their last residence, which was already recorded by Serge Klarsfeld in the 2012 edition. These pre-war locations — sometimes a city, sometimes a complete address — trace the routes of refugees from Germany, Austria, or the Benelux countries; foreigners arrested in France while attempting to reach Spain or Switzerland; or Jews living in the area around Paris who were arrested in the south of France. The search form allows you to specify any portion (country, city, or street) of the previous address. Note: foreign cities are spelled according to their names in those countries, for example, Antwerpen, Frankfurt am Main, and Warszawa for Antwerp, Frankfurt, and Warsaw. Country names are recorded in English in the English interface (Belgium, Germany, Poland) and in French in the French interface (Belgique, Allemagne, Pologne).
Internment/Transit Camp:, one internment or transit camp in France or in Italy that the person went through, e.g. Noé, or Drancy.
Convoy or List Number: We reuse here the numeration used by Serge Klarsfeld in his 2012 Memorial.
Clicking on the number will bring the historical notice about this convoy or list, taken from the 1978 (french) edition of the Memorial.
- Convoys 1 to 79: 74 convoys, numbered 1 to 79 (skipped numbers: 41, 43, 54, 56, 65) including only Jews, from March 1942 to August 1944.
- List 80: This list is made of 4 sub-lists:
  - List 80A: 73 spouses of prisoners + children deported on May 2, 1944 from Drancy to Bergen-Belsen.
  - List 80B: 73 spouses of prisoners + children deported on May 3, 1944 from Drancy to Bergen-Belsen.
  - List 80C: 49 spouses of prisoners + children deported on July 21, 1944 from Drancy to Bergen-Belsen.
  - List 80D: 63 spouses of prisoners + children deported on July 23, 1944 from Drancy to Bergen-Belsen.
- List 81: 180 Jews, deported on July 30, 1944 from Noé to Toulouse then to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.
- List 82: 29 Jews, deported on August 20, 1944 from Clermont-Ferrand to Dachau.
- List 83: Jews deported in convoys of political repression (as opposed to the convoys of deportation for racial persecution). Among these convoys, are notably:
  - List 83a: Jews deported in convoy of political opponents I.42 also known as “convoi des 45000” from Compiègne to Auschwitz. 45000 is a reference to their inmate numbers.
  - List 83b: Jews in convoy I.74 “31000” including among others communist women, deported on January 24, 1943 from Compiègne to Auschwitz. 31000 is a reference to their inmate numbers.
- Convoys I, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXIIA, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI and Z1: Among these transports of deportation of the Jews from Belgium, 646 Jews from the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments were arrested in Northern France, transferred to Malines/Mechelen, Belgium, to be sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau together with their brethren arrested in Belgium. An exception, convoy Z1 was directed to Buchenwald (men) and Ravensbrück (women and children). 531 of the Jews arrested in Northern France on September 11, 1942, were transfered from Lille to Brussels then deported by convoy X from Malines/Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau on September 15, 1942.
  To obtain the complete list of these persons (formerly grouped by Serge Klarsfeld under the generic list 84), simply select "Malines/Mechelen" as origin of the transport. There are 36 known survivors.
  The historical notes about each transport from Belgium were written by Dr. Laurence Schram. They are extracted from the book Mecheln-Auschwitz 1942-1944, and presented here (in english) with the agreement of the publisher, éditions VUBPRESS Brussels University Press and of Kazerne Dossin, the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Malines/Mechelen. May they be warmly thanked here.
- List 85: 31 Jews deported individually.
- List 90: 2,000 Jews died in internment or transit camps in France (Gurs, Récébédou, Noé, Drancy, Rivesaltes, Compiègne, Lannemezan, Le Vernet, Nexon, etc).
- List 91: 1,217 Jews shot or executed summarily in France.
- List 92: We gather here the Jews who committed suicide before or during their arrestation in France while facing the persecution.
- List 641: List of 584 'half-Jews' or 'spouses of Aryans' deported from Drancy to Alderney (Aurigny in french), the northernmost of the Channel Islands. This list is an addition to Serge Klarsfeld's 2012 Memorial. It originates from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation.
- Convoys Ita-05, Ita-06, Ita-13 and Ita-14: These convoys of deportation of the Jews of Italy transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau some Jews who lived in France before the war. After fleeing to Italy, they were arrested and deported together with the Jews of Italy.
For more details on the convoys from France, see Klarsfeld descriptions : 1978 Edition (french only), 2012 Edition.
Date of convoy departure: according to DD-MMM-YYYY format. For example Jul-1942 will filter the persons deported in July 1942.
Convoy origin: The place the convoy started from. One among these places: Angers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Cherbourg, Clermont-Ferrand, Compiègne, Drancy, Drancy/Compiègne, Lille, Lyon, Malines/Mechelen (Belgium), Noé/Toulouse, Paris, Pithiviers, Toulouse.
Convoy destination: One or more concentration or extermination camps this convoy was sent to: Aurigny (Alderney), Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Buchenwald/Ravensbrück, Dachau, Kaunas/Tallinn, Malines/Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Ravensbrück/Buchenwald, Sarrebrücken - Neue Bremm, Sobibor, Sobibor/Majdanek. Some convoys to Auschwitz-Birkenau stopped at Kosel in Upper Silesia (today Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Opole Voivodeship, Poland), where some men were selected for work in the Blechhammer camp. There is usually no information available to determine who got off the train at Kosel and who continued to Auschwitz-Birkenau. We indicate which convoys stopped in Kosel.
First prisoner number: When known, this is the first prisoner number assigned to those admitted in a concentration camp out of France (usually in Auschwitz-Birkenau). Otherwise, when the prisoner number is not recorded, we indicate 'selected upon arrival to enter the camp'. Deportees gassed upon arrival did not receive any prisoner number and we indicate 'gassed upon arrival to camp'. For many, even this mere distinction is unknown, in which cases this field remains empty.
Fate: According to the latest research, there were around 3,943 known survivors in 1945 ("Mémorial des 3943 rescapés Juifs de France", Doulut, Klarsfeld et Labeau, 2018). We follow their classification, indicating those among the survivors who escaped from the trains before the arrival to the camps. This figure now exceeds 4,000 survivors : on one hand, ten more survivors were identified since the publication of this book; on another hand, we now include the survivors from Northern France deported via Malines, Belgium who were not taken into account by the book.
Date of death: for persons whose death was recorded in the concentration/extermination camps or when they were shot or died in internment/transit camps in France. When unknown, we do not follow the ONACVG convention published in the Journal Officiel which sets arbitrarily the date of death as five days following the convoy left France. This date is recorded with the DD-MMM-YYYY format. For example Apr-1942 will filter the persons known to have died in April 1942 and 1944 will filter the victims of 1944. For survivors, we sometimes indicate their date of death after the war. (Partial)
Place of death or liberation (for survivors): when known.
Profession: This is the profession recorded in french in various deportation lists. Completion and translation to english is ongoing.
Photo: Pages and pictures from the French Children of the Holocaust Memorials (Mémorial des Enfants) books, published by Serge Klarsfeld in 1996 and 2016.
Journal Officiel Announcement: This hyperlink refers to the first page of the decree of the French Ministry of Defense and published online in the Journal Officiel de la République Française, stating that the person "died in deportation". These lists are established par the National Office for Veterans and Victims of War (Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, in short ONAC/VG).
Caveat: On recent decrees, you may perform a text search with Ctrl-F (Windows) and cmd+F (Apple); on older decrees with scanned pictures, there is no text search, so just review the images. Please note that a decree is usually composed of several pages and several successive lists, each of them been sorted alphabetically. So, if you do not see the name you search, keep on browsing down.
Other sources: Any references to other online sources that contribute to consolidate and extend our knowledge about each person : french and foreign memorials (national, regional, municipal, per convoy), concentration camps records, civil records in France and beyond, Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony, biographies, books, testimonies, etc. For links to Archives Départementales and to city archives, we indicate in the note the record number and the picture number in the digital register so as to get directly to the relevant page when the link brings only to the first page of the register.
Interface to Yad Vashem Central Database of Names of Shoah Victims: This link offers a direct search of the Yad Vashem relevant Page(s) of Testimony submitted for this person.
Notes: These notes usually indicate the rationale and the resources used to identify the birthplace of the individuals, and to complete and correct their identity. The most blatant contradictions detected between discording sources are also presented here. For references to online metrical records (Paris or Archives Départementales), the act number and image number in the digital repository provide a direct access to the record.
Permalink: a permanent URL address. Copy this address to create a hyperlink from your web site to the page of a person listed in this Memorial.