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FRANCE

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

Cercle de Genealogie Juive
    Claudie Blamont, President,
        14, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris, FRANCE
        Telephone & FAX: 33 1 40 23 04 90; Minitel: 3615 GENEALOJ
        E-mail: office@genealoj.org
        Web: http://www.genealoj.org

GenAmi, Association de Généalogie Juive Internationale
    Micheline Gutmann
        76 rue de Passy, F-75016 Paris, FRANCE
        Telephone: 33 1 45 24 35 40
        E-mail: michelinegutmann@free.fr
        Web: http://www.chez.com/genami

French Jewish Community Websites:
http://www.haruth.com/JewsFrance.html
http://www.col.fr

http://www.jewishgen.org/french is French Special Interest Group of JewishGen for research of French speaking countries of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Suisse Romande.

Possible Sources for French Jewish burials:
     Cimetieres de la Ville de Paris, Cimetieres de Paris, 71 rue des Rondeaux, 75020 Paris, France. Try to give year of death.
     French Laws Concerning ALL Cemeteries and "Abandoned Graves": see Paris
     Jewish Cemeteries in France: http://www.isjm.org/Projects/France.htm
     Archives of the Jewish Consistory [17 rue Saint Georges, 75009 Paris, France] has lists of people who had an official religious burial. The place of death (address) and the cemetery are mentioned but one must know the year of burial. Jean-Pierre Bernard: Jipbernard@aol.com contributed the postal codes after the town name. (French only).

THE CEMETERIES

MILITARY CEMETERIES IN FRANCE

Commonwealth War Graves Commission:   http://www.cwgc.org/
      "The Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917 ... to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead." Name searchable from the site. [March 2002]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Rue Angele Richard
62217 Beaurains
France
Tel: (03) 21 21 7700
Fax: (03) 21 21 7710
E-mail: france.area@cwgc.org


WORLD WAR I
The Australian Jewish Historical Society-Victoria Inc. has records of Jewish soldiers buried in Australian and overseas cemeteries maintained by the Australian War Graves Commission. Further information may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, Mrs. Beverley Davis, P.O. Box 255, Camberwell, Victoria 3124. Please enclose 3 International Postal Reply coupons.
     Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
     AIF Burial Ground, Grass Lane, Flers
     Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension
     Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension
     Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette
     Becourt Military Cemetery
     Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban
     Borne British Cemetery
     Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
     Cite Bonjean Military cemetery - Armentieres
     Cote 80, French National Cemetery, Etinehemv      Crouy British Cemetery
     Crucifix Corner Cemetery, Villiers-Bretonneux
     Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz
     Daours Communal Cemetery Extension
     Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extensionv      Ebblingham Military cemetery
     Erquinghem-Lys Chyd. Extension
     Etaples Military Cemetery
     FIndexedlloy Communal Cemetery (Somme)
     Franvillers Communal Cemetery, Ext.
     Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery
     Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres
     Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt l'Abbe
     Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension
     Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension
     Longueval Road Cemetery
     Longuinesse (St. Omer) Souvenir C.
     Mericourt l'Abbe Communal Cemetery Extensionv      Meteren Military Cemetery
     Mont-Huon Military Cemetery - Le Treport
     Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul
     Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Ste. Radegonde
     Prospect Hill Cemetery, Guoy
     Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy
     Querrieu British Cemetery
     Ration Farm Military cemetery - La Chapelle d'Armentieres
     Rosiers Communal Cemetery Extension
     Rue-du-Bacquerot (13th London) Graveyard, Laventie
     Sous-le-bois Communal Cemetery, Maubeuge
     St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Petit Quevilly)
     Suzanne Communal Cemetery Extension
     Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery
     Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck
     Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery - FIndexedlloy
     Warlencourt British Cemetery
     Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension
WORLD WAR I MEMORIALS
     Corner, Australian Cemetery, Fromelles
     Villers-Bretonneux
Headstones with Stars of David at grave sites are maintained abroad by The American Battle Monuments Commission 343(Source: Commission sheet entitled "Headstones Emplaced at Grave Sites (World Wars I and II)" dated 9 May 1994
World War I Cemeteries
     Aisne-Marne, 33
     Meuse-Argonne, 68
     Oise-Aisne, 100
     St. Mihiel, Thiaucourt, 45
     Somme, Bony (Aisne), 42
     Suresnes, 22
World War II Cemeteries:
     Brittany, St. James, 81
     Epinal, 116
     Henri-Chapelle, 139: in Belgium (East part of country, close to the German border). Source: Jean-LIndexeds Seel, Belgium jlouis.seel@skynet.be
     Lorraine, 200
     Normandy (see below for names) 148
     Rhone, Draguignan, 24
     Suresnes, 122
Source: Jonathan L. Eisenberg, Minnetonka, Minnesota; eisjon@email.briggs.com or c/o SEisenbrg@aol.com

THE CEMETERIES
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French towns N-Z

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