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1. Oral history interview with Johanne Eva Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.444.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0133
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Lignon, France until 1943, when she obtained false papers and crossed into Switzerland; discovering that her mother had died in Auschwitz; getting married…
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 … experiences were horrendous. It is not -- I would not say Gurs was Auschwitz, but it was what they called “the Little Hell before the Big One,” meaning…
2. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father's business contacts in Switzerland for the rest of the war; finding out that his parents had died in Auschwitz; and in 1946, immigrating to the…
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 … program afoot in France, Germany and so forth to deport Jews, deport them to Poland or east to extermination camps. The name Auschwitz, I hadn't heard of it…
3. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
… became a nurse. Theodor and Selma were deported in 1942 and killed in Auschwitz. Eva’s brother Hans Lifschitz (1922-1958) was sent to a Kibbutz in…
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 …. Theodor and Selma were deported in 1942 and killed in Auschwitz. Eva’s brother Hans Lifschitz (1922-1958) was sent to a Kibbutz in Palestine in 1938 and…
4. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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… in a round-up of Jews by the French police. They were deported via Le Vernet and Drancy to Auschwitz where they were murdered. Peter was protected from…
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 … Par-delà les barbelés: lettres et écrits des camps et des prisons de France, lettres jetées des trains de déportation, écrits d'Auschwitz, créations…
5. Rudy Appel papers
1991.209.7 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.209.7
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… was supposed to have been in was sent to Drancy transit camp, and eventually went to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland. Instead, Rudi…
6. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
… was supposed to have been in was sent to Drancy transit camp, and eventually went to Auschwitz killing center in German-occupied Poland. Instead, Rudi…
7. Oral history interview with Johanna Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.72 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0072
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interview: 1992 March 28
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …,190 Now, Heinrich and Paula were eventually brought-- 160 00:08:00,190 --> 00:08:04,390 Heinrich and Paula were deported from Gurs to Auschwitz. 161 00:08…
8. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0002
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interview: 1997 June 04
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … transport to Auschwitz and is very comprehensive and one day we, when it came out, of course we acquired it as soon as possible and as, when it arrived, I…
9. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.11 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0011
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interview: 1992 March 07
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … will never believe that, but we never heard of Auschwitz, we never heard of any, any, any, any camp or gas chamber or cremator--we never heard of that…
10. Oral history interview with Pierre Sauvage
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0202
Date:
interview: 1990 November 19
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … was going to be staying with a cousin of mine, uh who happens to be a survivor of Auschwitz. To compound the irony, a rather prominent gentlemen at that…
11. Oral history interview with Magda Trocme
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.26 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0026
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interview: 1984 October 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
12. 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
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interview: 1998 June 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … from Auschwitz or any of the other camps. No. That it wasn't. It was tough, nevertheless. Once you're a prisoner, you're a prisoner. So we didn't have to…
13. Unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship certificate issued to Rose Appel (b. September 30, 1896 in Ludwigshafen) and her son Rudi Appel (b. May 5, 1928 in Ludwigshafen) by George Mandel-Mantello, First Secretary of the Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland and sent to their residence in Chambon sur Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 85888
Date:
1944 March 14
… inform the world about the deportation of Hungarian Jews and the mass murder taking place at Auschwitz. He was the son of a well-to-do orthodox Jewish…
14. Rene and Germaine Brunschwig pose on a balcony holding their two young daughters, Arlette and Silvie, on their laps.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66143
Date:
1940 April 19
… captured. They were sent to Drancy and on October 28, 1943 were deported on convoy 61 to Auschwitz, where they perished.…
15. Rene and Germaine Brunschwig pose together on the balcony of a building in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66142
Date:
1939 - 1940
… captured. They were sent to Drancy and on October 28, 1943 were deported on convoy 61 to Auschwitz, where they perished.…
16. Two Jewish refugees from Alsace pose for a family portrait shortly after the birth of their second daughter.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66144
Date:
November 1939
… captured. They were sent to Drancy and on October 28, 1943 were deported on convoy 61 to Auschwitz, where they perished.…
17. Germaine Brunschwig holds her newborn daughter Sylvie in her arms while her older daughter Arlette sits on the side of the bed.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66141
Date:
November 1939
… captured. They were sent to Drancy and on October 28, 1943 were deported on convoy 61 to Auschwitz, where they perished.…
18. Claire Brunschwig-Metzger holds her newborn baby son Daniel in her arms outside a large building in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 66140
Date:
September 1939 - October 1939
… captured. They were sent to Drancy and on October 28, 1943 were deported on convoy 61 to Auschwitz, where they perished.…
19. Group portrait of children staying at the Les Grillons home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 81679
Date:
1943 August 01
… to Auschwitz and killed. In January 1943 Peter was moved to a children’s home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire) under the guidance of Daniel…
20. Private journal kept by Klaus Peter (later Pierre) Feigl, an Austrian/German Jewish refugee child living in France during World War II.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: N09365.07
Date:
1942 August 02 - 1943 January 20
…, then to Drancy, and finally to Auschwitz. (The convoy left Drancy on September 4 and arrived in Auschwitz on September 6, 1942.) Peter was told of his…