A collection of forged IDs and various documents forged by underground activist jew Raymond Heiman for Jews in France, as part of his role as chairman of the MLN department of the French Resistance that worked to smuggle Jews out of occupied France through forged documents and financial aid.
* 17 forged identification cards (apparently with false names) and preparation cards for forged registration with ink stamps designed by Hyman which were prepared for Jews in the years 1942-1943, and were intended to save them.
* 18 different personal notebooks of Hyman himself: ID cards, membership cards in the Zionist youth movement in France during World War II, his membership card in the French “RENE” group, his membership cards in the Red Cross, and other certificates as a member of various organizations and his many roles.
* An armband of Hyman while active in the Red Cross emergency rescue team.
* About 50 different documents from the time of Nazi rule: a temporary night pass in the occupied French provinces dated 12/19/1943, various documents from the Refugee Aid Committee for Jews at the end of the war, various pages in stencil printing as part of Hyman’s role as rescue center in France at the end of the war, Notebooks with name lists of Jews, and many more.
Raymond Heiman [1919-2009] Born in Strasbourg, France. In his youth he worked in his father’s factory for the production of shoes. Before the war he served as president of the JNF in Strasbourg. During the German occupation of France, Heiman joined the French underground and worked with Raymond Winter to hide Jews. As the Nazi ring tightened, he tried to flee to Spain With Raymond Winter and Andrew Bloom hoping to reach England, but without success, and remain in France. During the great deportation to the Drancy camp in the fall of 1942, Hyman hid and watched it from his hiding place, At the same time he strengthened his observance of the mitzvots in light of acts of devotion of Jews he witnessed. In those months he joined the Zionist youth movement MJS which alongside the EI managed to save many families, in various places of Hiding, especially children, while he was the head of the organization’s finance department, and many Jews survived by him. In those months, Hyman joined the French underground and was involved in countless rescue operations with immediate danger of death hovering over him if caught. In light of his experience in forging documents, in March 1944 Hyman was appointed head of the MLN department for forging documents of the National Liberation Movement in Paris. As part of his dangerous job, Hyman provided to countless Jews forged IDs and forged documents, He created them with ingenious use of the various pronunciations of the European languages in which he was proficient, as well as thanks to his direct acquaintance with the world of European registration, through which many Jews crossed the borders of the Reich-occupied lands into freedom. This is what Hyman did until the final liberation of France by the Allies.
About 86 items in total. general condition very good.
