Laisser-passer de circulation dans le camp de concentration attribué à Henry Kohn ("Der Jude Cohn")

Ensemble d'archives relatif à Henry Kohn, père de la donatrice, Madame Etiemble.
Arrivé au camp de Nordeney le 19 avril 1943, Henry Kohn s'en évade le 8 mai 1944.
Information trouvée sur l'internet (http://www.thisisjersey.com)

"In 1943 over 800 French Jewish slave workers were transported to Alderney. Many were married to non-Jews and under the warped Nazi racial rules had been thus selected for slave labour instead of extermination. Albert Eblagon, the President of the Alderney Survivors Association, described their arrival. 'We arrived at night and disembarked. In the darkness we were forced to run the two kilometres to Camp Norderney, while the German guards continuously stabbed into our backs with their bayonets whilst also kicking us all the time. There were many men among us over seventy years of age but nobody was spared. Work, hard physical work for twelve and fourteen hours a day, every day, building the fortifications. Every day there were beatings and people's bones were broken, their arms or their legs. People died from overwork. We were starved and worked to death, so many died from total exhaustion.
The French Jews were transported back to the European mainland in May 1944, destined for Neuengamme concentration camp. They owe their lives to the efforts of the Belgium Resistance whose members blew up the railway line and secured their release. The over 700 remaining ex-Alderney slave labourers were then cared for until Liberation by the residents of the town of Dixmude in a remarkable act of mass compassion. It was a great pleasure to welcome one of the survivors, Mr. Theodore Haenel, to a service in this synagogue only a few months ago.
The identities of only eight of the French Jewish slave workers who died on Alderney soil are known. They were:
Robert Perlstein, Lucien Worms, Wilfred Gordesson, Chaim Goldin, Seib Becker, Henri Lipman, Isaac Streskoski and Shmuel Kirsenblat."