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1. Manski family papers
2016.304.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.304.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-circa 1965
bulk: 1938-1941
… Railway to Vladivostok where they boarded a ship to Japan. On 6 May 1941, they sailed to the United States on the Heian Maru. They arrived in Seattle…
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 … Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards. Languages: Polish, English, Japanese Administrative Information Access…
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2. Oral history interview with Leo Hanin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0026 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0036
Date:
interview: 1999 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working with textiles across Asia and Europe; his pre and postwar experiences in Shanghai, China and Japan; the Shanghai ghetto; Communism in China after…
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 … starting a family; working with textiles across Asia and Europe; his pre and postwar experiences in Shanghai, China and Japan; the Shanghai ghetto; Communism…
3. Oral history interview with Margaret Bendahan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.753 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0753
Date:
interview: 1991 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… through Nazi-occupied Poland and Russia; arriving in Okinawa, Japan and trying to get on a boat that would eventually take her to Panama and being denied…
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 … war going on, in case you don't know. I said, well, how do I go to Panama then? Well, you have to go the other way through China, Japan. No, I said, I…
4. Oral history interview with Leo Hanin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0322 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0090
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Japan to do work for a textile firm; assisting the Joint Distribution Committee in New York to arrange for funds to be sent to Japan to support refugees…
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 … from England, Japan. And uh in 1936, I got married. In 1937, my...I think it was '36. Uh, the...my firm decided to send me to Japan. Kobe, Japan. That is…
5. Oral history interview with Myra Davis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.205 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0205
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents buying visas for Curacao through the Japanese consul; traveling via train to Moscow, Vladivostok, and Japan; staying in Japan for approximately nine…
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 … immigrated to Japan with transit visas and visas for Curacao, which were not used. Instead, they went to Shanghai, in 1941, after a year in Kobe, Japan, where…
6. 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
…, China from Genoa; leaving with her father from Austria at the age of four in 1941; taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok and a boat to Japan…
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 …, obviously, off the train. And we ended up going by boat to Japan, going south in Japan. And my father and I arrived in Shanghai by boat from Japan. Wow. So I…
7. Oral history interview with Irene Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.681 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0681
Date:
interview: 1994 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family life; her journey via the Siberian railway with her mother to Japan in 1937; the increasingly difficult conditions she lived under during the war…
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 … a very well known physicist. And she just didn't want to leave. Even when I was in Japan, I used to write to her and say, why don't you come here? You…
8. Leo Melamed collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.157.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1941
… Jewish refugees to ecape to Japan. Although the family lacked destination visas, they left in December aboard the Trans-Siberian railroad, travelling from…
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 … Melamed) of Białystok, Poland. Also included are blank postcards from Japan; a notebook kept by Leo Melamed containing Lithuanian words and their Yiddish…
9. Anatole Ponevejsky papers
1999.107.100 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 1999.107.100
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1953
bulk: 1940-1942
…, where they began a business of importing woolens from Japan. There he married Gita Preisman whose family had also come to Manchuria from Irkutsk. In 1935…
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 … consist of photographs documenting Ponevejsky’s work on behalf of Jewish refugees in Kobe, Japan in the early years of World War II and correspondence…
10. Oral history interview with Robert Mills Donihi
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0063
Date:
interview: 1994 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Tribunal in the Far East; serving before the Tribunal in Tokyo, Japan as a prosecutor of Japanese war criminals; returning to the United States in August…
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 …, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1915. Q: What I would like to do is to get into that period of your life where you were about to go to Japan. Tell me how it is that you…
11. Oral history interview with John Sato
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.33 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0033
Date:
interview: 1987 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to the Hawaii Air Force Base for nine months; being sent to Guam; going on a bomb trip to Japan with scientists; and his life after the war.…
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 … scientists, and went with them up to Japan on a research mission. This is before the great mass of the occupation troops moved in, although there were some…
12. Oral history interview with Fred Meibergen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.714 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0714
Date:
interview: 1989 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Yokohama, Japan and then to the United States in 1941. He describes his United States Army service beginning in 1942 and his experiences on the European…
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 … medium brother worked in Germany in an export company, in an export company, and they had dealings with Japan. And the Japanese in those days were not…
13. Oral history interview with Helmut Bates
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.660 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0660
Date:
interview: 1995 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s attempt to immigrate to Australia or Palestine and their successful immigration to Kobe, Japan in April 1939; his experiences in Kobe; the conditions for…
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 …. So he went out already to America. But they went to Japan to open business. The reason he went to Japan, I figured that out later on by myself, was I…
14. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.402 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0065
Date:
interview: 2000 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… restitution from Germany for slave labor; his views on contemporary Germans and antisemitism; segregation in the United States; being stationed in Japan; his…
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 … that just on the sideline. We go further. When I came from -- back from Korea, and I was in -- actually, before moving to Japan, I was on teedeewhy, in…
15. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
… August 2, 1940. He traveled from there to Kobe, Japan, arriving on February 13, 1941. Though his Japanese permit was only valid until March 16, 1941, he…
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 … Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in…
16. Oral history interview with Enrique Kaczor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.43 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0043
Date:
interview: 2011 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; avoiding bombings and going to Bialystok, Poland, to a relative’s home (the wife of the city’s mayor); receiving a visa for Japan from Chiune Sugihara; going…
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 … Bialystok, to a relative’s home (the wife of the city’s mayor.) They spent a few days there. Receiving a visa for Japan from Sugihara. Arriving to…
17. Oral history interview with Frank J. Catz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.308 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0308
Date:
interview: 1997 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Pearl Harbor in December 1941; becoming a prisoner of war in 1942 and being sent to Japan, where he spent several years in prisoner-of-war camps in…
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 … sent to Japan. He was put in a POW camp for five and a half years. He remembers this time as not being bad but different from the lifestyle he was used…
18. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs
2016.545.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2016.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1952
…, Russia where they took a boat to Japan. They remained in Japan for around 4 months, then sailing to Seattle, Washington in March 1941 from Kobe. The family…
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 … Hie Maru, the ship that Ola, Aleksander, and Sylvia sailed on from Kobe, Japan to Seattle, Washington in 1941 after obtaining Japanese visas from Chiune…
19. Oral history interview with Jack Ring
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.77 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0077
Date:
interview: 1992 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the provision of exit visas by the NKVD; his travel with his portion of the Yeshiva to Vladivostok, Russia, and on to Tsuruga, Japan; the provision of…
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 … transits. So it just happened that Japan-- they never had it before in the city of Kowno, which was the capital in those days from Lithuania. They never had…
20. Oral history interview with Charlene Perlmutter Schiff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.47 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0068
Date:
interview: 2003 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Japan; how the memory of her experiences during the Holocaust has affected her daily life; the Vietnam War; going to Israel; meeting with other…
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 … stationed in Japan; Judaism; how the memory of her experiences during the Holocaust have affected her daily life; the Vietnam War; going to Israel; meeting…