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1. Oral history interview with Salomone Koen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.50 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0050
Date:
interview: 2009 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… escape to Albania; crossing into Albania in 1941 with his brothers (Abraham and Mois) using Muslim names and being arrested; deciding to confess he was…
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 … group of people, acquaintances and family members. They were hidden in a brooms’ truck (which Yugoslavia would sell to Albania) They crossed the border…
2. Oral history interview with Tina Pardo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.65 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0065
Date:
interview: 2011 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… partisans and taken to Albania; being shot at by Germans as they escaped with the partisans; adopting new identities and getting false papers; passing as…
3. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
… granted limited freedom. Following the Italian capitulation and the German incursion into Albania, the Mandils moved to Tirana, hoping to find safety in…
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 … of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of…
4. Oral history interview with Gertrude Scarlett Epstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.312 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0193
Date:
interview: 2011 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… necessary to lie; her father’s arrest and later release from jail in Czechoslovakia; the family’s move to Albania by train; help provided to the family by her…
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 … Jewish queen in England. Q: That’s good news. Ok. Let’s go back to Yugoslavia and how you fled cause we need to get to Albania. That’s the important part…
5. Oral history interview with Boza Rafajlovic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.135.2 | RG Number: RG-50.459.0002
Date:
interview: 1997 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Albania.…
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 … Italians… Q: Into the prisons? A: … into the prisons. The Yugoslav Army went into Albania, but it had to withdraw. Most of them surrendered even before…
6. Oral history interview with Franz Fuchs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.364 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0364
Date:
interview: 2000 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and being part of the transportation corps; volunteering for the British commando; operations in Yugoslavia and Albania; being posted in Egypt; his…
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 … Yugoslavia and Albania, in which he participated. Franz was later posted in Egypt. He discusses his marriage and life in Palestine, and the fate of his parents…
7. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.402.1 | RG Number: RG-90.103.0001
Date:
interview: 1980 November-1981 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Greece in the 1930s; the beginning of the war for Greece; the Italian occupation; fighting in Albania against the Italians; the German occupation of Greece…
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 … black market. When Italy declared war on Greece in 1940 Salvator was back in Salonika working with his father as a shoemaker, He did fight in Albania…
8. Oral history interview with Johanna Neumann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.357.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0170
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her family’s decision to leave Germany as anti-Jewish measures intensified; obtaining visas for Albania and leaving Germany without many of her…
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 … their three daughters, uh no, three children. Sorry. Two daughters and one son. One of the daughters, ______ . The Meyers immigrated with us to Albania…
9. Oral history interview with Alegra Koen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.49 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0049
Date:
interview: 2011 September 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… truck to Tirana, Albania, which was occupied by the Italians; not having any false documents like many other refugees there; how her older, married…
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 … truck belonging to some smugglers came to take them away to Tirana, in Albania, occupied by the Italians. They needed to go by boat. Alegra did not have…
10. Jas̆a Altarac papers
2002.438.1 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.438.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1964
… was waiting for them in Tirana, Albania. On September 9, 1941, the family fled to Skopje, Macedonia (now North Macedonia), a former province of…
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 … again to Pristina, under Italian occupation. They were imprisoned in Pristina and eventually deported to Kavajë, Albania, in June 1942, where they had to…
11. Oral history interview with Marko Menachem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.195 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0195
Date:
interview: 1994 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Skopje and hiding in the attic and basement of his father's home; his sister's friend providing him with a Bulgarian passport and a job in Cërrik, Albania…
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 … and informed his father that he would go to Albania. In Tirana 2.55 lived Marko's sister's fiance, Telo Conforte, whose family operated a money ex…
12. Oral history interview with Albert Nahmias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.171.1 | RG Number: RG-50.426.0001
Date:
interview: 1996 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…) and the German arrival in Skopje in April 1941; heading towards Tirana, Albania on March 22, 1942; being imprisoned as a communist in Tirana; being…
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 …. His family moved to Thessaloníki during World War I. At the beginning of World War II, Albert left for Albania, where he was imprisoned as a Communist…
13. Oral history interview with Lily Sasson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.788 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0788
Date:
interview: 1990 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to a concentration camp in Durrës, Albania and the conditions there; their subsequent transfer to the camp in Ferramonti, Italy and the relatively good…
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 … occupying, occupying Greece and Albania at that time, and a part of Yugoslavia, the southest part of Yugoslavia. So we thought that the Italians, it's really…
14. Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania
Document | Accession Number: 2007.140 | RG Number: RG-79.001
Date:
inclusive: 1712-1950
bulk: 1930-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Selected records pertaining to Jews in Albania…
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 …RG-79.001 RG-79.001 Selected Records Pertaining to Jews in Albania, 1712-1950 (1930 -1944) 1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding…
15. Oral history interview with Solomon Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.171.8 | RG Number: RG-50.426.0008
Date:
interview: 1996 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Lycee Francais and graduating in 1938; going to Skadar (possibly Shkodër, Albania) in 1938 for two years; joining the army and fighting the Italians from…
16. Oral history interview with Lily Sasson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1258 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1258
Date:
interview: 1985 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to a concentration camp in Durrës, Albania and the conditions there; their subsequent transfer to the camp in Ferramonti, Italy and the relatively good…
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 … not the south end but on the very south1 south part of Yugoslavia. Now near Albania lets say not 10 too far.jt was five six hours train ride to Albania…
17. Oral history interview with Marcelo Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.14 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0014
Date:
interview: 2010 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s family move through the fields, despite the Germans’ dogs pursuing them; staying for a night in an abandoned church and moving in the direction of Albania…
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 …, despite Germans’ dogs pursuing them. After a night in an abandoned church they moved on the direction of Albania, after crossing a lake by boat. Rumors…
18. Oral history interview with Rafael Abarbanel and Rachel Abarbanel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.1 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Sofia, Bulgaria; being caught and interned in Albania; forging documents; escaping by boat in February 1944; landing in a British camp for refugees…
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 … without documents ("but the leather jacket helped!") There he joined his family and other refugees. 4:16-4:23 Organized groups to leave for Albania, three…
19. Oral history interview with Sara Alkalaj
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.135.10 | RG Number: RG-50.459.0010
Date:
interview: 1997 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… capitulation of Italy; the German offensive on Tirana, Albania in 1944; returning to Belgrade in 1945; the fates of her family members; and her life after the…
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 … survived the Holocaust. In the summer of 1941 she ran away from Belgrade and moved to Pirot and from Pirot to Macedonia and from Macedonia to Albania. Her…
20. Oral history interview with Armando Aaron and Rebecca Aaron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0562.3 | RG Number: RG-50.443.0003
Date:
interview: 1996 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the fortress for five days before being taken to Skadar (Shkodër, Albania); being taken to Patras, Greece, where he met a local man, Georgio…