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1. Nicole Denier Long papers
2018.128.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-circa 2000
bulk: 1918-1948
… French government selected Nicole to help care for concentration camp survivors in Switzerland. Nicole worked in Geneva, Saint Martin and Davos for six…
2. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2003.319.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.4
Date:
use: 1944-before 1946 September
manufacture: 1944
… March 1939. In the summer of 1942, under the fear of arrest and deportation, the family submitted a declaration for admission to Switzerland. Although…
3. Francie Alpert papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.274.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1949
… Switzerland, and she survived as a refugee on a farm in Neuchâtel. Francie’s mother and sister survived the Holocaust, and the three were reunited in Paris…
4. Fannie Stern Selig diary
1991.A.0003 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 52
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-19.012.01
Date:
creation: 1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… France, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Palestine. The diary focuses on topics such as her daily experiences, emigration of Jews to…
5. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
… reunited in Marseille. By December 1942 the extended family had fled France for Switzerland. They were interned in a refugee camp in Saint Cergue from spring…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
6. Marcel Zauberman collection
2018.625.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2018.625.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1950
… zone, settling in Challes-les-Eaux. Marcel’s father arranged for Marcel and his sisters to be taken to Switzerland with several other children in…
7. Records of the Geneva Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954
Document | Accession Number: 2016.144.1 | RG Number: RG-68.188M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1954
…Bern (Switzerland)…
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 … SW1 390 Countries + Regions SW Switzerland Files SW 1‐13 SW2 391 Countries + Regions SW Switzerland Files SW 15‐20, 24‐35 SW3 392…
8. Olga Klein Astrachan papers
1996.A.0215.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0215.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1998
… she was raised in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. She studied fine arts in Berlin, moved to Paris in 1933, and married Lazar (Loca) Astrachan (1903…
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 …) and Bronislava (Flexor, b. 1877) Klein. Her family escaped Russia during the revolution, and she was raised in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany…
9. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
…. Although Switzerland had a tradition of wartime neutrality and helping refugees, the threat of a German invasion led them to limit the number of foreigners…
10. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
…. With the help of a priest, they eventually made their way to the Swiss border, and crossed near Geneva on October 11, 1942. Although Switzerland had a…
11. Street scenes in Paris during the peace conference
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.325 | RG Number: RG-60.1959 | Film ID: 4233
Film Title:
Film 1, Section 3 -- David Boder -- home movies
Date:
Event: July-September 1946
Duration:
00:40:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… during the expedition. Boder's itinerary included four countries—France, Switzerland, Italy, and German—and sixteen different interview sites. On most days…
12. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
… September 1943, Helene was released from Gurs and went to Le Chambon before going to Switzerland where she stayed until the end of the war. Helene immigrated…
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 …, Helene was released from Gurs and went to Le Chambon before going to Switzerland where she stayed until the end of the war. Helene immigrated to the United…
13. Paris Peace Conference, 1946
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.325 | RG Number: RG-60.1957 | Film ID: 4233
Film Title:
Film 1, Section 3 -- David Boder -- home movies
Date:
Event: July 29-September 1946
Duration:
00:03:16
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… during the expedition. Boder's itinerary included four countries—France, Switzerland, Italy, and German—and sixteen different interview sites. On most days…
14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-021 : France Office
Document | Accession Number: 2016.233.1 | RG Number: RG-67.060
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
…, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Trieste; 12 procurement offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and later Peru, Cuba, India, Mexico…
15. Maria Segal photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.160.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1955
… surviving family members and wrote to the International Red Cross in Switzerland. After a few months she was able to locate a cousin who survived in the USSR…
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 … family members and wrote to the International Red Cross in Switzerland. After a few months she was able to locate a cousin who survived in the USSR…
16. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Germans, Henriette Meyerhoff was sent to Switzerland as a resettlement volunteer and spent the remaining war years there. After the war, she immigrated to…
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 …. Max Meyerhoff died there of starvation. In a deal with the Germans, Henriette Meyerhoff was sent to Switzerland as a resettlement volunteer and spent…
17. Annette Krygier papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.157.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1949
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 …, stamped that the passport is valid for travel to Switzerland (dated June 30, 1948) and Italy (dated July 30, 1948); contains visas and entry stamps from…
18. Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.320.1 | RG Number: RG-67.065M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
Alternate Title:
Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
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 … their headquarters for two days, where she was tortured, but she did not give away the rabbi’s hiding place, saying he’d escaped to Switzerland. The…
19. A recent immigrant to Palestine returns to Paris on a special mission for the government.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 43264
Date:
1950
… children to smuggle over the border to Switzerland. After their parents consented, Kurt and Gertrude joined the group and arrived in Switzerland in…
20. Two boys practice book-binding in La Forge, an OSE children's home in Fontenay-aux-Roses.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 71276
Date:
1945 - 1947
… his parents had escaped into Switzerland. Father Bertrand Jollivet took Andre across the border to Switzerland in the summer of 1942, and Claude…