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1. Oral history interview with Pierre Sauvage
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0202
Date:
interview: 1990 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Pierre Sauvage, born on March 25, 1944 near Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, describes his mother who was a Polish Jew and his father who was a French…
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 … and uh Barbara Sauvage--whose maiden name is [Sucholosky (ph)]--were in Paris when France fell. My mother being a Polish Jew from Bialystok; my father…
2. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.23.1 | RG Number: RG-43.163
Date:
inclusive: 1964-1994
… to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the…
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 … was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the Second World War began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the…
3. Oral history interview with Hans Salomon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.795 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0795
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Mannheim.…
4. Oral history interview with Magda Trocme
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.26 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0026
Date:
interview: 1984 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust" held at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC.…
5. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his death on June 24, 1944; the propaganda she saw that blamed Jews for the war and rationing; losing some of her family members; liberation in August…
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 … Paris. Fink went to a private lycee and to boarding schools in Germany and the UK. Saw signs in Germany re “no Jews allowed” in thirties. Married 1/31/34…
6. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0111
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Austrian--France.…
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 … Jews, but we did not practice any religious rites, and we didn't go...have Jewish holidays. I went...from the time on I went to school, I had religion in…
7. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in a round-up of Jews by the French police. They were deported via Le Vernet and Drancy to Auschwitz where they were murdered. Peter was protected from…
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 …, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with…
8. Oral history interview with Johanne Eva Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.444.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0133
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
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 … really my first memories. One of my other memories is the boycott of April 1933 where our show windows were plastered with "Jew!" "Don’t go to the Jew…
9. Honorary certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
10. Oral history interview with Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.445.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0134
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Mannheim.…
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 … picked one I could handle. And from that moment on, there was peace, not only for me, but also for my other three Jewish classmates. We were four Jews in…
11. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 a-b open
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 a
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
12. Bifold document case for a certificate issued to Juliette Usach by Yad Vashem
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.2 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
13. Presentation box for medal awarded to a French children’s home director
1992.72.1 b top
Object | Accession Number: 1992.72.1 b
Date:
issue: 1989 April 18-1990 September 10
commemoration: 1941-1944
…, between ages 14 and 18. The group was comprised of adolescents from various European countries, and a mix of Jews, Catholics, and Protestants. Juliette was…
14. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Jews--Austria--Vienna.…
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 …, approximately 1942 Indexing terms Kaufmann, Fritz Kaufmann, Helen Kaumann, Peter Trocmé, André, 1907-1971. Trocmé, Magda, 1901-1996. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jews…
15. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…Jews--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …, Eva Lifschitz, Hans Lifschitz, Theodor Lifschitz, Selma Gurs (Concentration camp) Jews--Germany--Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Kindertransports…
16. Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.96.1 | RG Number: RG-58.050
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2016
Alternate Title:
August Bohny-Reiter papers
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.…
17. View of the village Le Chambon sur Lignon and the surrounding countryside.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 01306
Date:
1981
… thousands of Jews and political refugees found shelter during the Second World War. The residents of these villages heeded the call of Pastors André Trocmé…
18. The courage to care : rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust / Carol Rittner and Sondra Myers, editors.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D810.R4 R37 1986
Published:
New York : New York University Press, [1986]
©1986
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…The courage to care : rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust / Carol Rittner and Sondra Myers, editors.…
19. Tainted decency, goodness and a Nazi officer in France / by Philip P. Hallie.
Publication | Library Call Number: D804.7.M67 H35 1987
Author/Creator:
Hallie, Philip P. (Philip Paul)
Published:
Hamden, Conn. : Quinnipiac College, [1987]
©1987
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…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France--Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.…
20. "Ici, on a aimé les juifs" : récit / Philippe Boegner.
Publication | Library Call Number: PQ2662.O299 I26 1982
Author/Creator:
Boegner, Philippe, 1910-
Published:
Paris : J.C. Lattès, [1982]
©1982
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…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--France--Le Chambon-sur-Lignon--Rescue--Fiction.…