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501. Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.302 | RG Number: RG-58.030
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1950
Alternate Title:
Minutes of the Commission of Spain
…The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize…
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 … acquisition is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland. The original documents are kept in the Archives of ICRC in Geneva. Duplicate…
502. Sightseeing in Palestine, circa 1930
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.95 | RG Number: RG-60.7149 | Film ID: 4374
Film Title:
Palästina -- Carl Lutz -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1930-1951
Duration:
02:41:36
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the…
503. Willi Seitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.061 | RG Number: RG-32.008.01
Date:
creation: 1937-1990
…), transferred him to France and then Switzerland. Shortly after his son’s trial, Franz Josef Seitz, a Jehovah’s Witness, was arrested for distributing illegal…
504. Building the WWII defensive line; German aircraft
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1981 | Film ID: 4267
Film Title:
The Siegfried Line
Date:
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:10:42
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Switzerland. Adolf Hitler planned the line from 1936 and had it built between 1938 and 1940. In English, "Siegfried line" commonly refers to this World War II…
505. Porges family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1947
… 1942, he attempted to escape to Switzerland and was arrested by a French gendarme. The officer brought Paul to his home and handcuffed him while he ate…
506. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland…
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 …. Indexing terms Kann, Edmond. Kann, Friederike. Kann, Edith. Kann, Renée. Gurs (Concentration camp) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugee--Switzerland…
507. Eva Edmands papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.254 | RG Number: RG-10.413
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
… to leave the army and gave the family false identification. Eva's family tried unsuccessfully to cross into Switzerland. They went to Annecy, France…
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 … cross into Switzerland. They went to Annecy, France, and a Catholic priest settled them in his village. For three years, Eva’s parents hid in the parish…
508. Hans Garfunkel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.308
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1948
… Quaker head of the Secours Suisse aux Enfants in Toulouse. Hans escaped to Switzerland on Dec. 25, 1942, and, after the war, emigrated first to Brazil in…
509. Ilse Garfunkel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.309
Date:
1940-1946
… Hille, and Le Vernet, before escaping to Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 31, 1942…
510. Josef Kaufmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.233
Date:
1937-1944
…. 1921), was sent to England in 1939 on "Kindertransport," and his younger brother, Sigmund (b. 1929), survived World War II in Switzerland. Josef…
511. Political medal awarded for service in the partisan war and other military actions in Tito's army
1990.118.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.118.15
Date:
approximately 1938-1945 April
… communist regime of Yugoslavia. He worked in Zurich, Switzerland for two years before settling in Giessen, Germany, where he served as the president of the…
512. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… years in a displaced persons camp in Switzerland following the war before immigrating to the United States in 1946. She died in New York City. The…
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 … deported to Theresienstadt, where Berthold died. Rosa spent two years in a displaced persons camp in Switzerland following the war before immigrating to the…
513. Selected records from the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Document | Accession Number: 2016.535.1 | RG Number: RG-58.051
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
…Source of acquisition is the United Nations Office at Geneva. Library, Switzerland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the…
514. Falik family papers
2016.303.4 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 2016.303.4
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2000
bulk: 1930-1947
…. The “flower” album contains photographs of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, England, and Scotland. The light brown album contains…
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 … other German cities and parts of Europe. The “flower” album contains photographs of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, England, and Scotland…
515. Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0085 | RG Number: RG-58.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1950
…The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize…
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 … and location of originals and Copyright Holder: International Committee of the Red Cross 19 Avenue de la Paix Geneva CH 1202 SWITZERLAND Phone 011 41 22…
516. Ryan M. Cooper papers
2018.613.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.613.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2010
bulk: 1972-2010
… Kluger in Frankfurt, Germany, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Basel, Switzerland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
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 …--Switzerland. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Geographic Names Amsterdam (Netherlands) Basel (Switzerland) Genre Letters…
517. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… 1961 to 1961 the police captain Avner Less interrogates Adolf Eichmann in preparation for his trial in Jerusalem. In 1968 Less moves to Switzerland where…
518. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.22.1 | RG Number: RG-43.162
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1970
… of Jewish communities in Paris; he was also a lecturer in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland…
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 … in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland. He began writing poems in Vispe (Islet) in Kaunas (1922…
519. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… international plumbing supply company with a branch in Basel, Switzerland. Gerald had a sister, Margot, born in 1920. The family was somewhat observant Jews who…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
520. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… heated passenger train with sanitary facilities. They were sent to a collection center in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Jewish aid organizations had raised…