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1. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
…, Kurt went to the American consulate to obtain forms for Hennie, her brother, Moritz, Kurt’s parents, and himself. Everyone was officially registered on…
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 …, Kurt went to the American consulate to obtain forms for Hennie, her brother, Moritz, Kurt’s parents, and himself. Everyone was officially registered on…
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2. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…. In December 1947, the American Joint Distribution Committee assisted Peter in emigrating to America on the USNS Marine Adder. His paternal aunt…
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 … two American Red Cross First Aid textbooks, a book about Japanese prints, a Berlin map and brochure, clippings about the Holocaust, and picture…
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3. Hans Fischböck papers
2018.636.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1992
bulk: 1938-1967
… and photographs from Latin America including official documents issued by Latin American authorities, some of which bear fake names for Hans Fischböck…
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 … annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany; post-war papers and photographs from Latin America including official documents issued by Latin American authorities…
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4. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1984
bulk: 1912-1945
…. Correspondence consists of a 1941 letter to Lisbeth from the American Red Cross regarding the whereabouts of Alexander Gregor Rauch Lewandowski; wartime letters to…
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 … Lisbeth from the American Red Cross regarding the whereabouts of Alexander Gregor Rauch Lewandowski; wartime letters to Augusta from her friend Mizzi, along…
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5. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… war, Robert worked for the American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee. In 1948 he received a student visa and scholarship funded by industrialist…
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 … quit school in 1942 and worked in a weaving factory. He also took secretarial courses. After the war, Robert worked for the American Joint Jewish…
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6. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
… searching for ways to emigrate. In May 1939, Fritz was selected to be one of the "50 children" in Vienna for whom American couple Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus…
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 … Vienna, Austria including Fritz Haber (Fred), who emigrated from Vienna, Austria with Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, an American couple who negotiated the…
7. Oral history interview with Hedy Marmorstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.17 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0017
Date:
interview: 1987 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Pearl Harbor; learning later that her parents were deported to Riga, Latvia (Kaiserwald concentration camp); how when she arrived in the U.S., Americans…
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 … with American embassy and Viennessian both. When she was 14 or 15 interested in going to Israel. Mother lit candles and kept kosher. Synagogue on…
8. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Zierer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1295 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1295
Date:
interview: 1986 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… meal they continued to eat every Easter to celebrate this kindness; their liberation by Jewish American soldiers; being befriended and sheltered by an…
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 … many others we ate and cooked the bark from the trees as tea and that was the only nourishment we had. And that was the state in which the Americans…
9. Oral history interview with Estelle Kiefer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.716 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0716
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… recorded for the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in 1985.…
10. Oral history interview with Dr. Eisenschimmel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.24 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0024
Date:
interview: 1975 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… death march; his transfer by train to Ebensee; his health suffering and his weight declining; his liberation in May 1945 by American forces; and returning…
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 … to 48 lbs and he would have starved to death, but in May 1945 was liberated by Americans and went to Austria. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
11. Oral history interview with Bella Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.1 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection…
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 … involved with NKVD, involved with the American Consulate and involved here with me. And I said a lot of things once upon a time in Israel. They're having Yad…
12. Linhard family papers
2017.259.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2017.259.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-1993
bulk: 1938-1939
… members, and neighbors began to disappear. Food was scarce, but the family was able to get daily rations at an American relief organization kitchen. Alfred…
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 …, including birth, marriage and death certificates; and letters Bernhard wrote to American aid organizations appealing for their assistance in helping him and…
13. Robert Treuer family papers
1999.A.0282 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0282
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1997
… recommendations for Fritz and Marie Treuer, correspondence regarding affidavits and other requirements for American immigration, and a copy of the Treuers’ letter…
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 … them to leave Austria, letters of recommendations for Fritz and Marie Treuer, correspondence regarding affidavits and other requirements for American…
14. Oral history interview with Renée Schwalb Fritz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0346 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0076
Date:
interview: 1989 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending Boston University; and marrying an American man soon after she graduated from college.…
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 … do you remember about liberation? A: Well, I remember about liberation was where German headquarters were, we were liberated by, uh, by the Americans…
15. Oral history interview with Hans Heimann
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0091
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the American Joint Distribution committee after 1945 and helping to organize displaced persons camps; and his recollections of other various…
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 … British are coming. Not like uh uh in American history...the British are coming, the British are coming. But uh they were...I I was fluent http…
16. Oral history interview with Peter Parker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1752 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1752
Date:
interview: 1981 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Munich, Germany; the Allied bombings and resulting casualties among the prisoners; his liberation by American troops; his reunion with his aunt and sister…
17. Oral history interview with Josef Filipp
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.17 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0017
Date:
interview: 1990 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Italy and on the Western front; being severely injured and eventually captured by American troops and sent to Luxembourg for surgery; being sent to…
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 … by American troops and sent to Luxembourg for surgery, then to Eberfeld (Germany) and finally to Graz (Austria), where he was dismissed. Although he…
18. Oral history interview with Kurt Fuchs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.2 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0002
Date:
interview: 1990 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… camp; marching back to Buchenwald; life in Buchenwald; how camp inmates obtained weapons and then held the SS guards hostage until American soldiers…
19. Oral history interview with Louise Spitzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.38 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0038
Date:
interview: 1988 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… when the war broke out; returning to London to work in a secret factory until the end of the war; volunteering to help the Americans because she spoke…
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 …. I went to London, and I volunteered. I worked in a secret scheduled war factory until the war was over. And then the American army came to England…
20. Oral history interview with Alice Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.1 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0001
Date:
interview: 1986 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the camp and being picked by some French prisoners of war; eventually being delivered to the American Forces; going to Paris, France and working for a…
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 … prisoners of war, and eventually was delivered to the American Forces. Although her Mother and two brothers were already in America, Alice did not have any…