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1. Herbst family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.133.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-circa 2000
bulk: 1940-1955
… and other Jewish refugees boarded a ship to Haifa, Palestine in October 1940. They were denied entry by the British authorities, and deported to…
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 … States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit…
2. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.183.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2007
bulk: 1922-1947
… place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on lathyrism and became the director of the Allergy…
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 … survived by going to Bucharest and moving from one place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on…
3. Oral history interview with David Eiger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.11 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0011
Date:
interview: 1984 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of 1935 in Palestine; his father’s role as the president of Kerem Kayamet L’Yisroel, a Zionist organization; attending a Jewish day school and a…
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 …… A: …Palestine at that time. I’m the product of an elementary Jewish day school and a Catholic high school in Poland. Q: Ah. How was it possible for a…
4. Oral history interview with Alfred Virski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.746 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0746
Date:
interview: 1990 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his journey with the Army through Iran, Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt; his unit's alliance with the United States Army; his experiences fighting in Egypt…
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 … Russia into first Iran and then Iraq, then what was at that time Palestine. Then we took part in the end of the Egyptian campaign around Tobruk and El…
5. Oral history interview with W. Louis Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.14 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0014
Date:
interview: 1984 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, which were buried in the yard; losing all his family except his sister and his uncle’s family; going to Palestine, where he worked on a kibbutz and helped…
6. Korant and Schwalbe families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.367.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2019
bulk: 1888-1988
… Berlin. He lived in Tehran and tried to open a dental practice before moving to Palestine in 1935. No longer having his dental equipment, he worked as a…
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 … Korant), Herbert Schwalbe, and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, and Palestine as well as their immigration and settlement in the United States…
7. Oral history interview with Arieh Pinchuk, Dan Hiram, and Daniel Dagen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.22 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0022
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Palestine--Personal narratives.…
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 … for spelling or accuracy. Jewish people tried to find ways to help the British Army. Being under British dominion, Palestine was considered a mandate…
8. Oral history interview with Ernst Freudenheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.20 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0020
Date:
interview: 1989 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… savings; visiting Palestine for three months in 1936 and reporting on his visit to a large Jewish group closely monitored by the Nazis; planning to…
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 … representative of the Gestapo or whichever authority would send a representative. I recall, I was, in 1936, I was in Palestine. And I came back and gave to a large…
9. Oral history interview with Ruth (Renee) Hartz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.40 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0040
Date:
interview: 1982 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth (Renee) Hartz (née Kapp), born in 1937 in Palestine to German-Jewish parents, describes moving with her family to Paris, France in 1938; the…
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 … Palestine. But my uncle then later, he’s the one who went to the Saar and eventually was able to save us all. NL: And what were some of the early signals that…
10. Oral history interview with Irma Benjamin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.795 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0795
Date:
interview: 1989 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Nazi Germany in 1933 and her and her husband's conviction that they would be safe only in Palestine; their fact-finding trips to Palestine; sale of…
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 … country. Her brothers ignored her fears saying, "Don’t talk to Irma, she is crazy." On October 1, 1933, Irma traveled to Palestine on a train to obtain…
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 … Breslau and emigrated from Breslau to at this time Palestine. TO PALESTINE Yeah. Now to Tel Aviv which became Israel in 47 or 48. It was somehow then Israel…
11. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
12. Oral history interview with Ervin Belik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.158 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0158
Date:
interview: 1988 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… movement; being part of the Czech Army in Poland from May 1939 to May 1945; his various assignments in Tarnopol, Ukraine and Palestine (via Alexandria) to…
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 … command in Palestine and other countries in the Middle East, and took part in an attack on three French Army units suspected of being Nazi collaborators. He…
13. Oral history interview with Herbert Prauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.148 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0148
Date:
interview: 1986 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… released from the camp and going to Palestine for several weeks; going to the US; settling in Chicago, IL; and joining the congregation of Ezra-Habonim…
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 … the quota process. He and his wife were able to get permission to go to Palestine. They family was made to give up the shoe factory. Herbert and other…
14. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… move to Pilsen. Emil and Olga feared that Egon was at risk of being taken because of his young age and decided to send him to Palestine so he could leave…
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 … Palestine so he could leave Czechoslovakia as soon as possible. They planned for Egon to join them in America once they received their paperwork. Egon…
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15. Fischl and Gerstmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… assistance of the Youth Aliyah organization. That was the last time she saw their parents. Alice took a train to Italy and sailed to Palestine where she lived…
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 … Czechoslovakia and Palestine after Alice was sent to Palestine in 1939 by her parents, as well as Eli Gerstmann and his family in Germany and their immigration to…
16. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…. Klestadt in 1935, and they honeymooned in Palestine, then returned to Düsseldorf. Fred was born in Düsseldorf on March 15, 1909 to Moritz and Rahel Aenne…
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 … honeymoon in Palestine in 1935 and letters exchanged between Fred and Thea after they arrive in the United States. There is also one brief letter from the Red…
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17. Margosis family papers
2018.209.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.209.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2015
… Iran where he gained citizenship. Schendel joined him in Iran and then they went to Palestine before returning to Europe and settling in Brussels…
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 …, Portugal, from Anna and Willy in Barcelona, Spain (1944) and Palestine (1944-1948); correspondence and writings regarding Isaac’s journalism career…
18. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and the ship broke in two off of a deserted island under Italian control. The passengers and crew were…
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 … from Vienna in 1938. In 1940, they booked passage on the SS Pentcho, a boat illegally sailing to Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and…
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19. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration of Jewish refugees stranded in the Far East.” In July 1941, he served as member of the…
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 …, Leon traveled to Shanghai, China to establish the “Far Eastern Committee representing the Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration…
20. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… drawing and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Most of her family emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and Esther joined them there. She worked with…
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 … Royale des Beaux-Arts. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1934. At the beginning of the war, while visiting her sister, Muta, in Lithuania, Esther was…