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1. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
…). Her older sister was Helga Simon (1921-1998). In 1934 the family fled to Switzerland. They returned to Germany in 1935 so that Dr. Klau could liquidate…
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 … so- called “Lost Transport”; and Ursula’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland, immigration to the United States, and efforts to liquidate…
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2. Oral history interview with Rudolph Haas
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0333
Date:
interview: 1995 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rudolph Haas, born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1912, describes growing up in a religious family; leaving for Bern, Switzerland in October 1936 to finish…
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 ….D. degree elsewhere, I accepted that and went to Switzerland, which had reciprocity in those days, probably still now, with German medical schools and…
3. Oral history interview with Leo Diamantstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.7 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0007
Date:
interview: 1991 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s contact with the Italian underground; escaping to Switzerland through the Alps and their experience at the border; being sent to a labor camp in Lugano…
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 …, we were singing and kind of happy about long train trip. We went through Switzerland. And they gave us the OK just to pass through, of course, not to…
4. Oral history interview with Carmen Appel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1257.2 | RG Number: RG-50.322.0002
Date:
interview: 1984 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… grandmother; having a religious education; learning Hebrew; going with her father to the synagogue every Friday; moving with her family to Zurich, Switzerland…
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 … moved to Switzerland with his family, and he urged him to move because he saw great possibilities there. And so we moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where I…
5. Oral history interview with Judith Heimann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.254 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0643
Date:
interview: 2011 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Frankfurt where she and her older sister Ruth grew up as Protestants; various schools she attended in Frankfurt, Switzerland, and England, and jobs…
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 … ago in Switzerland. Q: This – this is his sister, right? A: Yeah, the – the sisters – my mother’s sister’s daughter. Q: Right. And her name is? A: Her…
6. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Lassers
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.38 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0038
Date:
interview: 1986 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in a Zionist youth organization and attending a public school until age 16; attending a school in Switzerland before returning to Frankfurt to become a…
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 … age 16. She then attended school in Switzerland before returning to Frankfurt to become a student nurse. She felt that nursing was an occupation that…
7. Oral history interview with Eva Sands
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.44 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0044
Date:
interview: 1985 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… age 14 and attending a finishing school in Switzerland; attending college at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and meeting her husband, Barry…
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 … school in Switzerland with my sister, Naomi. And here, we were-- You've been the three years in England and just about to finish and off you go to…
8. Oral history interview with Herbert Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0935
Date:
interview: 2017 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s textile business in Frankfurt; his family’s apartment and nanny; family vacations to Switzerland; seeing Nazis and Hitler Youth marching; getting stones…
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 … or yearly went on vacations. 208 00:08:43,270 --> 00:08:47,780 And we had been in Switzerland at one time. 209 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:52,700 And the…
9. Oral history interview with Peretz Leshem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.335 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0335
Date:
interview: 1998 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… refugees from Salonika to enter Spain and then continue to Morocco and Palestine; his dealings with Silberstein, head of the Joint in Switzerland; the Jewish…
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 … German army for one year. Peretz worked as an emissary during WWII, and worked to get Jewish refugees out of Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and other…
10. Oral history interview with Ina Rothschild and Elsa Jaeckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.120 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0120
Date:
interview: 1981 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after the war; being transported to Switzerland with 600 people in February 1945; and their immigrations to the United States (Mrs. Jaeckel arrived in…
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 … fever together with a Jewish doctor. The children survived and were adopted after the war. She was transported to Switzerland with 600 people in February…
11. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
… able to leave for Switzerland in 1942, and spent the war in Zurich. In 1946, he joined Gabrielle in the United States, but passed away shortly…
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 … Switzerland in 1942, and spent the war in Zurich. In 1946, he joined Gabrielle in the United States, but passed away shortly thereafter. René immigrated to the…
12. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers
1999.A.0163 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0163 | RG Number: RG-10.238
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1995
… upon his release. After the Anschluss, his parents escaped to Switzerland and he to Czechoslovakia, where he was imprisoned in Castle Špilberk in 1939…
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 … his release. After the Anschluss, his parents escaped to Switzerland and he to Czechoslovakia, where he was imprisoned in Castle Špilberk in 1939. He…
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 … he fled to Austria upon his release. After the Anschluss, his parents escaped to Switzerland and he to Czechoslovakia, where he was imprisoned in…
13. Oral history interview with Hans Eric Tausig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.170 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0170
Date:
interview: 1999 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …’s friends, a lady from Germany, had met my Uncle Paul when she was a young woman in Switzerland. It was crazy. INT: (Laughs) He knew everybody. HANS: Yeah…
14. Oral history interview with Max Liebster
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.34 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0034
Date:
interview: 1991 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … gave me a motorcycle, and by showing my number, I got gasoline from the Americans. I went to Switzerland and got instruction on the work of reorganizing…
15. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.17 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Switzerland to American prisoners of war in Germany. 129 00:10:19,070 --> 00:10:22,440 The war in Europe was now over. 130 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:27,830 These…
16. Oral history interview with Trude Plack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1023 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1023
Date:
interview: 1990 December 12
interview: 1991 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … an interesting experience dont know how it fits -- of course it all fits in together. My husband and landed in Zurich we went to Switzerland from…
17. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.354.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0169
Date:
interview: 1990 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … that had been sent from the United States during the war that were to be shipped to Switzerland. From there the International Red Cross would send them…
18. Oral history interview with T. Werner Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.958 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0958
Date:
interview: 1991 March 27
interview: 1991 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … dont know. But he geL out quite early to Switzerland had no problem getting into switzerland. The others would not be accepted by Switzerland or other…
19. Oral history interview with Eva Kristine Belfoure
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.31 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0138
Date:
interview: 2001 February 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … from southern France to Switzerland and they laid their arms at the Swiss border, and they were all interned for the duration of the war. Q: What – let…
20. Oral history interview with Ruth Borsos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.417.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0035
Date:
interview: 1990 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … our family had received through the auspices, and a wonderful deed, of an uncle – who was really a cousin – Max Weil. He lived in Switzerland. He was…