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1. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
… refugee camp in Rotterdam. Frederic’s sister Lilian joined him in Rotterdam in early 1939. Frederic and his sister were sent to England on a…
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 … Jewish refugees. After spending about 10 days in Nijmegen, they were sent to a refugee camp in Rotterdam. Frederic’s sister Lilian joined him in Rotterdam…
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2. Oral history interview with Natalie Kent Kempner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.539.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0995
Date:
interview: 2018 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Natalie Kent Kempner discusses being part of a group of Quaker Friends that helped sponsor a refugee camp in Bad Aibling, Germany and her role as one…
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 … errors in spelling or accuracy. off at boot camp or training or something. 1091 00:51:39,470 --> 00:51:43,580 But it didn't affect us much at that moment…
3. Schillinger and Baumann family papers
2015.556.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2015.556.1
Date:
inclusive: 1845-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1986
… refugee camp near Rotterdam, The Netherlands in June 1939. With the help of Samuel’s brother Hugo, they were able to obtain permits to go to Ecuador. They…
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 … MS St. Louis from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba; their relocation to the Heijplaat refugee camp in the Netherlands; their move to Quito, Ecuador…
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4. Bernhard Wiesenfeld papers
2015.602.1 Box 3 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1946
… kept in the Kitchener refugee camp in Richborough, Kent from June-August 1939. He immigrated to the United States in 1940, and settled in Queens, New…
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 … refugee camp in Richborough, Kent, England where he fled after the Nazi annexation of Austria. Included are photographs and correspondence related to his…
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5. Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland
Document | Accession Number: 2017.458.1 | RG Number: RG-41.019
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Alternate Title:
Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany
…Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel…
6. Kenneth X. Robbins collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0265
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1998
… some Jews among the Polish refugee camp at Valivade in Kohlapur state and Balachadi in Nawanagar state.…
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 … the refugee camp for kids in Isfahan. It would be too much of a coincidence if there had been two mahajarahs who took in 1200 orphans from Poland in…
7. Margaret Iglauer collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0193 | RG Number: RG-10.241
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1937-1946
… Switzerland, the Iglauers were separated into different refugee camps. Margaret Iglauer stayed at a camp run by the Salvation Army in Lausanne for several…
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 … France where they were assisted by the French Underground movement. In Switzerland, the Iglauers were separated into different refugee camps. Margaret…
8. Oral history interview with Itzchak Shverzentz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.150 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0150
Date:
interview: 1992 October 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… September 1942; escaping Berlin through Schafhausen and arriving in Zurich, Switzerland in 1944 to a refugee camp, where there were also German army deserters…
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 …. Then Zurich, to a refugee camp where there were also German army deserters. 42.40 Visit of Natan Dror from Israel. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
9. Oral history interview with Theodore Feder and Herbert Katzki
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0336
Date:
interview: 1995 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… survivors in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and Romania; helping to gather food and clothing for the refugees; and…
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 … ____________ of France for the Jewish refugees who had come down into the unoccupied ____________. INTERVIEWER: Let me just stop you a second because I want to hear…
10. Oral history interview with Hedy Werner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1290 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1290
Date:
interview: 1986 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion; their journey to Switzerland; their internment in a Swiss refugee camp; their immigration to the United States in 1946; and her life in the US.…
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 … camp after 23 the other. So many people came so they had to expand. They took 24 old hotels or old big military places to fill with refugees and 25 they…
11. Toni Heller collection
1995.A.0176 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0176
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
… successful in reaching Amsterdam. Their stay was not long, however, and both were soon sent to Westerbork, which served as a refugee camp before Nazi…
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 … from the refugee camp. Other items include an interview with Commander Gemmecke of Westerbork, a testimony on life in the camp, and a brief biography…
12. Oral history interview with Theodore Feder
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0335
Date:
interview: 1995 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Austria.…
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 … enlarged map of Germany, showing the hundreds and hundreds of camps where DP’s and refugees were living. At that time, there must have been about seven…
13. Oral history interview with Felix Bauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.2 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0002
Date:
interview: 1992 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… border refugee camp; life in the camp, where he stayed for two years; his parents' imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp; going to the…
14. Oral history interview with Herr Sussman and Frau Sussman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.26 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0026
Date:
interview: 1975 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… movement; Frau Sussman’s escape to Switzerland and going to a refugee camp in Basel; Frau Sussman’s discovery that Herr Sussman was alive and living in…
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 … sent to a refugee camp in Basel. Had food and were sent to Montreux. Jewish delegates came with offers from Germany: exchange of prisoners. She refused…
15. Oral history interview with Seva Nemko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1246 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1246
Date:
interview: 1985 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… discomfort with continued antisemitism in Poland; leaving Poland for a refugee camp in Germany; and her immigration to the United States.…
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 … Nemko and my mother is concentration camp survivor and spent most of the years of 1939 through. 1944 in the Lodg Ghetto and then was taken to Auschwitz…
16. Oral history interview with Gertrude Goetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.15 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0015
Date:
interview: 1984 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a farm; being liberated in June 1944; living at a refugee camp for six years; her father’s depression; and meeting her husband, Sam, at a refugee camp…
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 … left with no supervision in which her only duty was school. 41:00 She met a man who organized refugee camps for children. It was difficult to obtain food…
17. Oral history interview with Willie Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.45 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0045
Date:
interview: 1983 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… celebrated his bar mitzvah; immigrating to Shanghai, China in 1938 with his fiancée and the two children of his first marriage; the refugee camp in the…
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 … his bar mitzvah. He emigrated to Shanghai in 1938 with his fiancée and the two children of his first marriage. He describes in detail the refugee camp…
18. Oral history interview with Heinz Bohm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.48 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0048
Date:
interview: 1989 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Belgium, then to Switzerland, where he was interned in a work camp; moving to a refugee camp in Switzerland; being in three refugee camps before getting a…
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 … were-- afterwards, I was sent to various refugee camps. And that internment camp, how were you treated? How we were treated? The same as the prisoners…
19. Oral history interview with Erika Reiss Kinel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0309
Date:
interview: 1995 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the refugee camp in Bari on October 9, 1944; and then immigrating to United States on March 14, 1949.…
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 … all refugees? A. Ja, it was a refugee camp. Q. Who were some of these people in Bari? How big a place was it? A. That was a letdown, the camp, 1500…
20. 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
… Brigade; the formation of the Jewish Brigade in 1943; their desires to be recognized as Jews and not as British soldiers; working in the refugee camps after…
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 … the brigade that was near Bari, Italy, and he recalls that they liberated some Jewish concentration camp inmates. Would you have any recollection of…