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1. Oral history interview with Max Liebster
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.34 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0034
Date:
interview: 1991 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… very sick when they were liberated; having reunions with the people he was in the camps with; becoming a J.W.; and going to France and getting married.…
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 … as Jehovah’s Witnesses in a bathtub in the home of León Blum, the former premier of France. In April 1945, after the war, when Max reached Viernheim…
2. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to an internment camp in France; remaining with his mother and tracking down his father in the Pyrenees Mountains; living in the house of a French…
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 … internment camps - not concentration camps but internment camps in southern France - St. Cyprien, Gurs, Rivesaltes and there were several others. Now at the…
3. Oral history interview pertaining to the Bernays family history
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.295.3 | RG Number: RG-50.683.0003
Date:
interview: 1974 November 27-1975 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Simone Bernays Dessayer discusses in detail her family history beginning from the 18th century in Germany and France, including her grandfather…
4. Oral history interview with Frank Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.161.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1082
Date:
interview: 2020 June 24
interview: 2020 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…France.…
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 … spelling or accuracy. 738 00:33:48,090 --> 00:33:51,060 739 00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:55,740 We met a couple of girls from France, from Paris. 740 00:33:55…
5. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.354.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0169
Date:
interview: 1990 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… chaplain after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor; serving as the senior Jewish chaplain with the United States Army in the United Kingdom and then in France during…
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 … headquarters, and I was given the assignment of uh G3 © that is I was in charge of all religious supplies there and later on in France. Question: What did it…
6. Oral history interview with Herman Obermayer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.141 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0574
Date:
interview: 2010 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1943; landing at the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945; serving in France, Belgium, and Germany immediately following the end of World War II; spending…
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 …:16,550 until they had assembled 55 ships that 256 00:14:16,550 --> 00:14:22,700 in a unique formation crossed the ocean and landed in France. 257 00:14…
7. Benny Guinossar papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.270.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1948
… sons sent on a Kindertransport to France where her sister and brother-in-law, Esther and Paul Edelist, could care for them in Paris. The children…
8. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
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 … Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport…
9. Oral history interview with Katsugo Miho
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.18 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0018
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father; training until April 1944; visiting camps (possibly Japanese American internment camps); going to France and losing many men while trying to rescue…
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 … to France and lost many men trying to rescue the lost battalion from Texas. They were given a small break and went to Nice. They joined with the 7…
10. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… had a French passport from the prior year, when he studied agronomy and worked at a dairy in France. He escaped and fled alone to Soviet-controlled…
11. Mini Chazen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1942
…, Myra, and Karl were sent by their parents to France to live with a Swiss family. The siblings stayed with the family until 1941 when Germany invaded…
12. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
…The collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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13. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
14. Elfriede Schloss papers
1995.A.0368.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0368.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1980
… attend school due to anti-Semitic laws. Recha decided on France for Elfriede, as she believed that the widespread anti-Semitism would quickly blow over…
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 … orphanage in France and eventually immigrated to the United States along with other orphaned children with the assistance of the American Friends Service…
15. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… orphanage sent on a larger transport to Paris, France, organized by the orphanage. He and the other children who kept kosher spent a few weeks at the…
16. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family
2018.613.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.7
Date:
manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931
… in October, Herbert had left Germany and settled in Paris, France. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Under…
17. Oral history interview with Jay Frankston
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.212 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0212
Date:
interview: 1994 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… religious beliefs and fled to Germany; moving with his family in 1937 to Paris, France, where his father opened his own store that sold leather goods…
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 … an outcast because of his religious beliefs, and fled to Germany. Then in 1937 Joseph and his family moved together to Paris, France where his father…
18. Oral history interview with Ernst Valfer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.586 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0586
Date:
interview: 1996 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s release on condition that the family leave Germany; being put on a children's transport to Paris, France in March 1939; his experiences as part of children…
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 … ERNST VALFER -- Hell Hitler in Germany as in France where went to school later on where the teacher in the classroom the whole class got up and when…
19. Oral history interview with Fred Loewy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.460 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0501
Date:
interview: 2005 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fred Loewy (Löwy), born in 1925 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, discusses moving to Alsace, France after his father opened a business there; growing…
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 …-Alsatian and German. Q: So he spoke Alsatian and German, he never learned French? A: Not at that time, no. When he went to southern France, then he picked it…
20. Mini Chazen photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2004.463
Date:
creation: 1939
…, Myra, and Karl were sent by their parents to France to live with a Swiss family. The siblings stayed with the family until 1941 when Germany invaded…