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1. Oral history interview with Richard Seibel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0210
Date:
interview: 1990 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.…
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 … on, and when through Luxemburg and Belgium, France, Germany, into Czechoslovakia, a short distance and back out, and into Austria, and that's when we…
2. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
…Paris (France)…
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 … Regina Papierbuch, Paris, France, 1947. 35. Photograph of Franka Papierbuch, Lola Byron’s paternal aunt, Paris, France, May 1947. 36. Photograph of Zosia…
3. Oral history interview with Curtis Whiteway
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.402.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0253
Date:
interview: 1990 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; crossing into France with his division and participating in several skirmishes with the Germans; fighting the Third Panzer Division, which helped to push…
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 … took over; and we were assigned occupation, temporarily, uh, in the city of Cherbourg, France. And we had 200,000 German prisoners there. And at times…
4. Oral history interview with Harold B. Herbst
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0096
Date:
interview: 1992 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bataille de Normandie (Paris, France)…
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 … France in July, the first of July. And that's when we went across the English Channel and into the French territory. From there we were placed at first…
5. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution
Document | Accession Number: 2021.102.1
Date:
creation: 2020
… through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original…
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 … 1942) 32 Leaving France (September–October 1942) 35 Spain (October – November 1942) 40 Crossing the Atlantic (November – December 1942) 42 Arrival in…
6. Oral history interview with André Zalc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.168 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0533
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Joyce Mizrachi; his family’s eastern European background; how his family was able to flee to France; the train ride to southern France; his family…
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 … World War, where – when I went to France and everything, and then later I’ll talk about my parents, okay? Q: Start with your childhood. A: Yeah, yeah. I…
7. Oral history interview with Liny Pajgin Yollick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.371.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0264
Date:
interview: 1990 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1940; her mother’s plans to escape after her father died; spending six months with her mother and sister trying to escape through southern France by…
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 …. We had some friends who begged us to come to the Southern part of France be...after Hitler invaded Poland. My father thought now the Netherlands was…
8. Oral history interview with Ernest Loewenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.253 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0419
Date:
interview: 2001 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.…
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 … go to France? A: War time, and it’s war here. I knew -- I knew he had to leave, he had to go. Q: He wa -- but he wasn’t going to take you? A: No. Q…
9. Oral history interview with Barbara Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.211.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0200
Date:
interview: 2012 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … spelling or accuracy. 106 00:05:46,250 --> 00:05:50,030 the Germans crossed over into France, 107 00:05:50,030 --> 00:05:51,390 maybe a little before that…
10. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners in ghettos and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also…
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 … and camps in Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. This series also includes scrip from the Łódź ghetto and the camps at…
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11. Oral history interview with Joyce Mizrachi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.169 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0534
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joyce Mizrachi, born in 1941, discusses her birth in the Rivesaltes camp in southern France; her family, including her brother Andre Zalc and sister…
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 … was a big Catholic organization, and in France the nuns had very big headdresses. I don’t know the order, but I remember we used to get hot chocolate…
12. Morton N. Cohen collection
1990.297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.297
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-1945
… well as a typed manuscript of the history of the 95th Infantry Division. The photographs reveal scenes from the Division’s travel throughout France…
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 …’s travel throughout France, Germany, and Holland. Of particular note are photographs of the arrest of Franz Von Papen, former Vice-Chancellor of Germany…
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13. 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…
14. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.8 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0008
Date:
interview:  1992 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Bretholz discusses the underground resistance movement in France and its two parts, the Forces Françaises de l'intérieur (FFI) and the Francs…
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 … tell me 16 00:00:44,490 --> 00:00:47,065 what the underground was like in France? 17 00:00:47,065 --> 00:00:50,920 18 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,050 The…
15. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… II, he was a specialist in deactivating landmines with the 103rd Infantry Division. His unit helped in the liberation of France, and was among the…
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 … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…
16. Oral history interview with Rina Frankel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.392.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0951
Date:
interview: 2017 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… managed to survive, they were able to leave Poland in November 1948 for France, and finally, in 1949 they arrived in the newly created State of Israel.…
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 … 00:02:47,820 --> 00:02:49,110 No. 57 00:02:49,110 --> 00:02:55,500 I understand ancestors came through France. 58 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:58,730 And…
17. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… listen to music, and her religious feelings would be genuine. Following her graduation from high school in 1926, she studied in France at Nancy University…
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 … immigration files documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee…
18. Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0082
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1986
… offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
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 … offices in Marseille, and other locations in unoccupied southern France in 1940-41. Also includes clippings, exhibition catalogs, unpublished manuscripts…
19. Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin, Joyce Mizrachi, and André Zalc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.170 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0535
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their parent’s marriage in Belgium; leaving Belgium for France by train; their two week train trip; daily life in the Rivesaltes camp; life in Trets…
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 … France 128 00:06:48,590 --> 00:06:51,590 during the wartime, yeah. 129 00:06:51,590 --> 00:06:53,240 Where was your father from? 130 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06…
20. Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.167 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0532
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; fleeing to France with her family when war broke out; living in the internment camp Rivesaltes in Vichy France; her mother’s difficult pregnancy due to lack…
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 …, we decided to leave Antwerp, and we packed whatever we could in a – in a rush to leave, and – for France. And I was a little girl, I really didn…