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Betty-Prins Haytt Papers, 1900-1945

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Title: Betty-Prins Haytt Papers, 1900-1945

Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945

ID: RG-51/RG-51

Creator: Prins-Hyatt, Betty

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: Dutch;Flemish [dut], French [fre], English [eng]

Abstract

This Collection relates to the Holocaust-related story of rescue and aid rendered to Jews in Southern France in 1942 -- 1944

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection includes documents from the period of 1940 -1944, when the family of Betty Hyatt  found refuge in southern France. These documents comprise family documents and photographs, official documents and document related to to the Holocaust-related rescue and aid rendered to the families of Jewish immigrants in Southern France in 1942 -- 1944

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-51.01.01, Esther Prins (mother of Betty Prins-Hyatt passport) issued in the Netherlands with the marks of entering and living in France in 1942, 1942Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
The Dutch Passport issued to Esther Prins, mother of Betty Prins-Hyatt, 1942
Subject/Index Terms:
Esther Prins, mother of Betty Hyatt
Passports, Dutch
Netherlands (1940 -- 1945)
Emigration from the Netherlands to France, 1940 -- 1944
Prins Family, Belgium
Documents in Dutch language
France (1940 -- 1945)
Creators:
The Netherlands Consular Authorities (1940 -- 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-51.01.02, Food rationing stamps, France, 1940 -- 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Food rationing sheets, France, 1940 -- 1945
Subject/Index Terms:
Rationing of food, France, 1942 -- 1944
Food coupons sheets, France, 1942 -- 1944
France (1940 -- 1945)
Lamastre (France)
Prins Family, Belgium
Prins Family in France, 1942 -- 1944
Life under false identity
Life under false identity, France, 1940 -- 1944
Prins-Hyatt, Betty
Esther Prins, mother of Betty Hyatt
Nathaniel Prins, father of Betty Hyatt
Documents in French language
Creators:
Vichy France authorities of interior, 1942 -- 1944 (1942 -- 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-51.01.03, Letter from mayoral office of Lamastre certifying arrest and deportation of Nathan Prins, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.

In this letter, the Mayor of Lamastre, France, informs about the fate of Nathaniel Princ, father of Betty Prins-Hyatt.

Nathaniel Prins lived in southern France under false identity. He was arrested by Gestapo in 1943 and deported to the Drancy internment camp in Paris. From Drancy he was deported to Auschwitz. He did not survive.

Subject/Index Terms:
Holocaust in France
Lamastre (France)
Officials, French
Vichy France (1942 -- 1944)
Life under false identity, France, 1940 -- 1944
Deportations from the Drancy internment camp, France
Drancy internment camp (Paris, France)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
Police and security forces, French
German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945
German police and security forces in France, 1940 -- 1944
Rescue and aid rendered to Jews in Lamastre, France
French people, aiding Jews, 1940 -- 1944
Correspondence from France, 1940 -- 1945
Correspondence from France to the United States
France (1940 -- 1945)
Documents in French language
Creators:
Mayor of Lamastre, France (1945)
Officials, French (1940  -- 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-51.01.04, Letter of Nathaniel Prins from prison dated 31 January 1943, January 1943Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
This letter Nathaniel Prins wrote from the prison in Carcassonne, France to the Chambron Family, asking to pass it to his wife, Esther Prins, January 1943
Subject/Index Terms:
Correspondence from a French prison, Nathaniel Prins, 1943
Correspondence from prisons in France, 1940 -- 1944
Carcassonne (France)
Carcassonne Prison (Carcassonne, France)
Nathaniel Prins, father of Betty Hyatt
Chambron Family from Lamastre, France, aid givers
Arrests of Jews in Vichy France, 1942 -- 1944
Personal correspondence
Nathaniel Prins, personal correspondence
Courage and dignity
Courage and dignity, Nathaniel Prins
Vichy France (1942 -- 1944)
Documents in French language
Creators:
Nathaniel Prins, father of Betty Prins-Hyatt
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-51.01.05, Postcard, Lisbon, ca 1941, ca 1941Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Postcard, Lisbon, ca 1941
Subject/Index Terms:
Personal correspondence
Personal correspondence in France
Vichy France (1942 -- 1944)
France (1940 -- 1945)
Prins Family in France, 1942 -- 1944
Lisbon (Portugal)
Lamastre (France)
Family history, Prins
Documents in French language
Creators:
Betty Prins-Hyatt (1930s -- 1990s)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-51.01.06, Postcard, Lisbon, May 1941, 1941Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Correspondence from Lisbon to Lamastre, France, May 1941
Subject/Index Terms:
Personal correspondence
Correspondence from prisons in France, 1940 -- 1944
Vichy France (1942 -- 1944)
France (1940 -- 1945)
Family history, Prins
Lisbon (Portugal)
Lamastre (France)
Documents in French language
Creators:
Betty Prins-Hyatt (1930s -- 1990s)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-51.01.07, Biogrraphical ntoes witten by Betty  Prins-Hyatt, 1970sAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
Biographical notes and family history, narrated by Betty Prins-Hyatt
Subject/Index Terms:
Family history, Prins
Prins-Hyatt, Betty
Nathaniel Prins, father of Betty Hyatt
Esther Prins, mother of Betty Hyatt
Flight from Belgium, May 1940
Marseilles (France)
Vichy France, 1940 -- 1942
Vichy France (1942 -- 1944)
Jewish refugees in France
Jewish refugees in Vichy France
Rescue and aid in France, 1940 -- 1944
French Resistance Movement, 1940 -- 1944
Mr. Chambron from Lamastre, France, aid giver
Chambron Family from Lamastre, France, aid givers
Correspondence from a French prison, Nathaniel Prins, 1943
Carcassonne Prison (Carcassonne, France)
Drancy internment camp (Paris, France)
Deportations from the Drancy internment camp, France
Auschwitz Complex of concentration camps (Poland)
Postwar visits of the Holocaust milieu
Betty Prins-Hyatt, postwar visit to France, meeting with the family of aid-givers
Documents in English language
Personal memoirs and recollections
Personal memoirs and recollections, Betty Prins-Hyatt
The letter written by Nathaniel Prins to his family, Carcassone Prisone, Farnce, 1943
Correspondence in French language
Creators:
Betty Prins-Hyatt (1930s -- 1990s)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-51.01.08, Wedding photograph, Nathaniel Prins and Esther Prins, the parents of Betty Prins-Hyatt, ca 1930sAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
A wedding photograph of Nathaniel and Esther Prins, ca 1930s
Subject/Index Terms:
Family history, Prins
family photographs
Family photographs, Prins family
Nathaniel Prins, father of Betty Hyatt
Esther Prins, mother of Betty Hyatt
Wedding photographs
Wedding photographs, Prins Family
Belgium (1918 --1940)
The Netherlands (1918--1940)
Poland (1918--1939)
France (1940 -- 1945)
Creators:
Prisn Family (1930s)