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1. Ilie Wacs family papers
1998.180 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1998.180
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1951
… United States entered the war, and in 1943 the Wacs were forced by the Japanese occupiers into a Shanghai ghetto. Following their liberation in 1945, they…
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 … Japanese occupiers into a Shanghai ghetto. Following their liberation in 1945, they learned that nearly all of their family who had remained in Europe had…
2. Oral history interview with Stephen Kalmar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.467 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0467
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… export business; the birth of his two sons; the fate of his family (two brothers fled to the Shanghai ghetto, one brother survived in hiding in France, one…
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 …,880 --> 00:06:27,230 Shanghai the ghetto. 82 00:06:27,230 --> 00:06:33,800 The eldest brother, Shandor, then went to New York. Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
3. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…, 1938, the family decided to leave Germany. They bought tickets for Shanghai, China, because it was an open port with no visa requirements. Peter left…
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 … documenting Peter and Berta Victor, their families, and their lives in Berlin, Vienna, Shanghai, and the United States. Languages: German, English, Japanese…
4. Oral history interview with Gertrude Leiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.158.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0918
Date:
interview: 2017 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… traveled to Shanghai, China and lived in the Shanghai Ghetto before coming to the United States; meeting her husband, who also escaped from Vienna; her two…
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 … 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,790 There was a ghetto. 1258 00:50:45,790 --> 00:50:49,780 And when they came to this country, she and her mother, 1259 00:50…
5. Oral history interview with Eric Bergtraun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.396 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0396
Date:
interview: 2002 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… they had in Vienna; living in a ghetto in Shanghai and being part of an underground boy scouts group; the arrival of the Americans; getting a job at a…
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 … would go to Shanghai, because he wanted there "to be an ocean between Hitler and our family." Before they left, Kristallnacht occurred. When the Germans…
6. Oral history interview with Al Buchler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Mr. Buchler describes his experiences in the Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, his feelings of community within his school, and deprivations caused by the war…
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 … worked out. They were finally able to get visas to go to Shanghai; this kept the family from being deported in 1940 when the Germans started rounding up…
7. Flusser and Rosenbaum families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.213.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1965
bulk: 1938-1965
…Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China.…
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 …) Wildflecken (Displaced persons camp) Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish ghettos--Shanghai--China. Refugees, Jewish--China--Shanghai. Displaced…
8. Oral history interview with John Friedmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the trash dumps; working for the Shanghai Bus Company; having to live in the ghetto; working for Citroën Motors; getting a job in the Toyota Company…
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 … letter in the hall and it says on that letter, the only way out is through the free port of Shanghai. That’s the only way you can go. So, O.K., so there…
9. Oral history interview with Leo Awin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.147 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0147
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Awin, born in 1919 in Vienna, Austria, discusses life in Vienna before the war; the Anschluss; fleeing to Shanghai, China via Italy in May 1939…
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 … Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, processing emigration papers for Jews. The family emigrated to Shanghai, going to Genoa, Italy by train then to Shanghai via the Suez…
10. Oral history interview with Joseph P. Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.376 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0376
Date:
interview: 1998 February 04
interview: 1998 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 …:21,050 --> 00:03:23,480 and you were in Shanghai. 51 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,210 Before we go on, I would like to just go back and ask 52 00:03:26…
11. Oral history interview with Susan Flusser Tausig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.153.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0965
Date:
interview: 2018 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Susan Tausig, born in 1937 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her family lived there until the late 1930s; her mother and brother sailing to Shanghai…
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 … now the word "ghetto," because that's exactly what it sounds like without barbed wire. It was called the ghetto area, the Shanghai ghetto. Some book…
12. Oral history interview with Peter Flusser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.405 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0405
Date:
interview: 2002 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 … wouldn’t stand for this, so in 1939 she took Peter and left for Shanghai, where a cousin already lived, leaving his younger sister Susan who was two years…
13. Solomon Bergstein papers
1995.A.0682.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0682.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1992
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 …‐‐China—Shanghai Pharmacists‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Pharmacists‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish ghettos‐‐China— Shanghai. Drugstores‐‐Austria—Vienna. Jewish…
14. Oral history interview with Leah Farber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1063 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1063
Date:
interview: 1991 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.…
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 … learned about Jewish émigrés to Shanghai, and she and her fiancé decided to get married and then leave Vienna. The couple left Vienna in 1939, and on…
15. Oral history interview with Helen Lilly Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.666 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0666
Date:
interview: 1998 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… life in Palestine and Israel from 1939-1953; her immigration to the United States; and the fate of her parents in a ghetto in occupied Poland and a…
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 … parents, they signed up for Shanghai, and the signed up. But that they didn't go. No, no, no, we don't. And they canceled it. And then, I signed up to go…
16. Oral history interview with Margit Shipek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.146 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0146
Date:
interview: 1995 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… losses; her husband’s being in the Warsaw ghetto, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen; immigration to the US; dynamics of nuclear family; Jewish identity and faith…
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 …. Who was going to employ them in England? So they had to go into the ghetto. INT: There was a ghetto in Vienna? MARGIT: There was a ghetto in Vienna…
17. Rothstern family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.3
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
… employees. In February 1939, Irma left Germany via the Brenner Pass into Italy, from which she travelled to China, arriving in Shanghai in March of that…
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 …, during the 1910s to 1930s, and then following their forced emigration due to Nazi persecution, in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1955. Included is a…
18. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
… certificate and a transport list, Łódź ghetto records, and AJDC records documenting Rosine’s and Ignatz’s deportation from Vienna to Łódź. Wellisch records…
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 … unsuccessful efforts to bring Frieda’s parents, Ignatz and Rosine Auerbach, to the United States, and the Auerbachs’ deportation to the Łódź ghetto. Languages…
19. 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
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 … France had fall and many refugees had come over from France into Portugal. And I found out or somebody else found out that you can get visas to Shanghai…
20. Oral history interview with Ernest Kolben
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0007
Date:
interview: 1994 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.…
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 … Shanghai but was unable to use them. 10.00 Ernest recalls when all the windows were broken and signs were painted, “Don’t buy from Jews” and the Jews had to…