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1. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… succeeded in immigrating to America on her own in 1939.…
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 … biographical materials, camp documents, and emigration and immigration records documenting the Seligmanns’ journey aboard the SS St. Louis, return to Europe…
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2. Letter written from Gurs concentration camp
1995.A.1165 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1165
Date:
creation: 1940
… murder at Auschwitz in 1942. The letter, dated 15 November 1940, was likely sent to his cousin, Justin Adler, who immigrated to the United States in 1938…
3. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
… cards, correspondence, letters, immigration documents, and press clippings. Also includes an English translation of a book on the Neu family by Martin…
4. Klara Süss papers
2007.344.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2007.344.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… told to leave the country, and in 1937 they immigrated to the United States and also settled in New York. Erna was attending medical school in…
5. Oral history interview with Hans Salomon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.795 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0795
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… first in school, then in hiding with French farmers; receiving help from the French underground; going to Geneva, Switzerland eventually; and immigrating…
6. Oral history interview with Rosalia White
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.43 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0043
Date:
interview: 1983 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated…
7. Oral history interview with Ruth Steinfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1324 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1324
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in during the war; the kindness they experienced and the dangers they faced; their fear of separation; their immigration to the United States in 1946…
8. Rubel family papers
2016.168.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.168.2
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1942
… grain brokers. Most of his extended Rubel family had immigrated to Chicago in the mid-19th century. Ferdinand had been involved in ad hoc anti-Nazi…
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 … Else Rubel originally of Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany, who had immigrated to the United States and loved ones in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bulk of…
9. Oral history interview with Johanna Liebmann and Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0108 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0015
Date:
interview: 1998 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences living in a work camp; immigrating to the United States; being diagnosed with tuberculosis; trying to survive and raise their daughter in New York…
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 … legal because my family had obtained an immigration visa for me. So only my crossing was, in a way, illegal. But once I was in Switzerland I was a legal…
10. Oral history interview with Carmen Villalba
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.6 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0006
Date:
interview: 2000 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carmen Villalba, born in Asturias, Spain, discusses her personal background and her father prewar profession; her immigration to France in 1939 as a…
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 … and mentions Franco as a reason for her immigration to France; comments again on her route of immigration to France via Barcelona; talks about her…
11. Oral history interview with Ruth Wertheimes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.42 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0042
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation; learning of her mother’s death; immigrating to the US; living with relatives in Queens, NY; adjusting to the US; her friends within the refugee…
12. 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 Newport, Arkansas, the daughter of a German businessman who had immigrated to the United States in 1879. She traveled with her father to Europe…
13. Drawing of women sitting inside barracks by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.33
Date:
creation: approximately 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Interior of Women's Barracks
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
14. Drawing of men working and sitting outside of a building by a German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.55
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940: Spanish Refugees Manning the Camp’s Maintenance Teams
Artwork Title:
Spanish Maintenance Workers - Idling
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
15. Portrait of a seated woman drawn by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.8
Date:
creation: 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
The Crazy Alsacian
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
16. Drawing of people sitting on a bench by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.17
Date:
creation: approximately 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Group of Women with Visitor
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
17. Portrait of the head of barracks by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.13
Date:
creation: approximately 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Chef de Barraque
Alternate Title:
Head of Barracks
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
18. Drawing of a scene outside barracks by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.84 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.84
Date:
creation: 1940
Artwork Title:
Maintenance Crew in Gurs-1940
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
19. Portrait of a woman by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.80 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.80
Date:
1941
Artwork Title:
Carlota Reifen (Markus)
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…
20. Drawing of woman reading a book on a mattress (Version II) by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.18
Date:
creation: approximately 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Woman on Straw Sack Reading II
…’s brother, Peter, to immigrate to England in 1936 and find work in leather tanning and shoe manufacturing. In the 1930s, the other members of her family also…