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1. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… personal diaries, an autograph book, and items Frank collected later in life such as photocopies of an article concerning the history of the Jews in Trest…
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 … Nazi policies towards Jews, the group left Czechoslovakia, settling in Denmark. Frank attended the Veterinary and Agricultural College at the…
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 … appearance, I eat and go out into the corridor to look out the window, and discuss serious matters with “father” Pincus. You know what happens when two Jews…
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2. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name. Photographs…
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 … regulations imposed in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name…
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3. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… of Review of the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, volume 3, 1990-1991, which contains the article "From Prague to the far East," by Joseph…
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 … Review of the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews, volume 3, 1990-1991, which contains the article "From Prague to the far East," by Joseph…
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4. Fannie Stern Selig diary
1991.A.0003 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 52
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-19.012.01
Date:
creation: 1947
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… France, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Palestine. The diary focuses on topics such as her daily experiences, emigration of Jews to…
5. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0197 | RG Number: RG-68.001M
…Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique…
6. Oral history interview with William Perl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10
interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Palestine for Jews in Vienna in 1936; the Anschluss in 1938 and the desire of many Austrian Jews to leave the country; meeting with Adolf Eichmann…
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 … beginning, when I knew that nationally, ethically I am a Jew, was an important issue in Prague, because Prague was the capital of Bohemia and there was a…
7. Oral history interview with Moshe Leshem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.620 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0491
Date:
interview: 2004 October 06
interview: 2004 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Moshe Leshem, born in 1918 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, describes growing up in a Zionist family; the relations between Jews and Gentiles before World…
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 … has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0491 5 A: Yes, because there were 12,000 J-Jews -- Jews in Brno. Q: Did you feel…
8. Gustav Spitzer letters
Gustav Spitzer letters
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0019
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
… in granting them affidavits so they may immigrate to the United States. The letters show the desperation and discrimination that Jews were facing at…
9. Oral history interview with Louis Bakay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.1 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0001
Date:
interview: 1990 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; antisemitism in Eastern European countries, especially in the lower classes in the cities; restrictions on Jews; the German occupation and the emergence of…
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 … antisemitism was inborn in all East European countries but was most virulent in the lower classes in the cities. There were restrictions on Jews mainly limiting…
10. Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká and Alexander Wrchovszky papers
2001.46 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.46 | RG Number: RG-10.218
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2001
… effects of anti‐Semitic laws on the Wrchovszky family in occupied Czechoslovakia, Alexander Wrchovszky’s internment at a camp for Jews of mixed parentage at…
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 … Czechoslovakia, Alexander Wrchovszky’s internment at a camp for Jews of mixed parentage at Bystřice, the deportation of Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká to…
11. HICEM-Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam, Zagreb (Fond 1430)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.393.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.52
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1941
Alternate Title:
Committee for Jewish Refugee Assistance "HICEM," Zagreb
Hilfskomitee für jüdischen Flüchtlinge
… Anschluss in 1938, when Austrian and German Jews tried to flee Europe, joined in smaller numbers by Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Jews. HICEM Zagreb registered…
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 … and German Jews tried to flee Europe, joined in smaller numbers by Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Jews. HICEM Zagreb registered and sheltered the refugees…
12. Oral history interview with Manya Mandelbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.19 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Manya Mandelbaum, on August 16, 1919, discusses her childhood in Debica and Kraków, Poland; the Jews' relationship with the Poles inside and outside…
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 … University, 106 00:07:35,180 --> 00:07:43,220 threw off the hat and call names like, you Jew, you Jew. 107 00:07:43,220 --> 00:07:45,380 Go to Palestine. 108…
13. Oral history interview with Irena Kirkland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0029
Date:
interview: 1996 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Prague before the Munich Agreement; returning to the city and learning she was Jewish; adapting to restrictions placed on Jews; her feelings about wearing…
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 …? 43 00:01:53,870 --> 00:01:57,540 Was it a mixed neighborhood of Jews and non-Jews? 44 00:01:57,540 --> 00:01:58,460 I don't think-- 45 00:01:58…
14. Żidovska Nabożenska Obec v Pradze (Sygn.102)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.70.1 | RG Number: RG-15.473
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Alternate Title:
Judische Kultusgemeinde in Prag
Gmina Żydowska w Pradze
Jewish Community in Prague
Židovská náboženská obec v Praze
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…), November 1939 to July 1940. The Jewish Community staff had to send copies of replies to the Head Office of Emigration of Jews (Zentralstelle fuer…
15. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers
1996.A.0383 Book Enclosure 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews stating that Eva received a food parcel. The collection also includes originals and…
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 … mother, pamphlets notifying Eva’s family that they have to leave their home and what they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews…
16. Oral history interview with Hana Bruml
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.355.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0043
Date:
interview: 1990 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… development of a romance with Bruno, who worked as an internist in the camp; the special treatment of Danish Jews and a few prominent Austrian and German Jews…
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 … in Czechoslovakia. Because, I remember so clearly, when I was about eleven or twelve, I read a book about the Marranos. These were the uh Jews in Spain…
17. Oral history interview with Oscar Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.4 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0004
Date:
interview: 1986 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hamburg until 1932; the rise of antisemitism in Czechoslovakia; the restrictions placed on Jews in Prague in 1939; returning to Prague and working at a…
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 … when other nationalities (Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians and Germans) joined the Republic, there was some discrimination against the Jews in certain areas, e…
18. Oral history interview with Henry Freier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.14 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0014
Date:
interview: 1985 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Sgersh, Poland; his mother’s death in 1917; his eight siblings; being raised observant Jews; attending services on Fridays; attending cheder and two…
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 … Sgersh, Poland. She died in 1917. Had 8 brothers and sisters, not named. Observant Jews, going to services on Fridays. Went to cheder and 2 years of…
19. Oral history interview with Hanna Seckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.20 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0020
Date:
interview: 1982 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… restrictions were imposed on Jews; being 14 years old in 1939 when she went to Denmark on a transport of children from Hashomer Hatzair, sponsored by the Danish…
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 … German occupation of Sudetenland including school closings and restrictions imposed on Jews. In October 1939, when she was 14 years old, she was sent to…
20. Oral history interview with Kurt Jilovsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.39 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0039
Date:
interview: 1996 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Liberec; studying Talmud at his paternal grandfather’s house; the relations between Jews and non-Jews; his father’s work as a landscape photographer…
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 … there Mother, Elsa, from a different part of Bohemia, also a German district known for hops and cucumbers Leibrach, 500 Jews, grandfather was religious…