Disappearance Certificates
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The French Ministry of Veterans and Victims of War issued this disappearance certificate for Mirel Goldman. Another certificate was issued for her husband, Wolf. The certificate confirms the date of her arrest and deportation. Wolf died on a death march and Mirel was murdered at Auschwitz. The certificates were used to establish that their son, René Goldman, was an orphan.
Donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by René Goldman. 2018.037.098.
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[Translated from the original French.]
Ministry of Veterans Affairs and Victims of War
Civil Service of the State
37, rue de Bellechasse
Paris (7)
French Republic
M. 8 bis
Paris, 18 July 1947
Disappearance Act
The Department of Veterans Affairs
and Victims of War,
Having regard to Article 88 of the Civil Code (Ordinance of 30 October 1945);
Having regard to the file of the interested party here under: 5I.300
Case:
The disappearance of Goldman maiden name Arenstein, Mirel
born on the 22 October 1907 in Kalisz (Poland)
under the following conditions:
Reportedly arrested at Lons le Saunier in 1942,
Internee in Drancy and deported
The family may, by a simple letter addressed to the Procurator of the Republic of residence of the disappeared, without a confession and without a charge, ask:
- for a declaratory judgment of absence pursuant to the law of 22 September 1942 validated and modified by the Algiers Ordinance of 5 April 1944.
On expiry of a period of 5 years from the date of disappearance, the declarative judgment of absence can be transformed into declarative judgment of death by application of the Ordinance of 5 April 1944 above.
- for a declaratory judgment of death pursuant to the law of 30 April
1946, if the disappeared is of French nationality and belongs to one of the
following categories: Mobilised, Prisoner of War, Refugee, Deportation or
Internal Political, Member of the Free French Forces or the Forces
French in the Interior. Required from the Compulsory Work Service or Resistant.
On the other hand, the act of disappearance can be transferred, at any time, to the
Directorate of Civil Status for granting a death certificate if the necessary conditions are
fulfilled.
For the Ministry of Veterans Affairs
and Victims of War:
By delegation, the Director of Civil Status and Research
P.O.
The Head of the Office
of the Civil Status of Deportees
Important Notes:
1: This act of disappearance is not an act of death. It must not be transcribed in the register of
death certificates at the Town Hall.
2: In case of the need to prove their rights, they can provide their copy or have a copy drawn up
and this copy must show that it has been certified by the Mayor or the Police Commissioner..