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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. Nachlass Otto Zaugg (1906-1998)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.223 | RG Number: RG-58.019
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1988
Alternate Title:
Otto Zaugg papers
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… to establish labor camps for civilian refugees led to the creation of the Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager (Central Administration of Labor Camps…
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 … camp du service volontaire du travail (1936) Hektographierte Broschüre mit Originalfotos 1936 2.15.3. PRO JUVENTUTE, Heft 7/8, Juli/August 1935, Thema…
3. 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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4. 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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5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Oral history interview with Alex Mathes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.410 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0410
Date:
interview: 1981 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working in a refugee camp in Belgium and three detention camps in France, including Saint-Cyprien, Gurs, and Les Milles; and leaving Marseilles for the…
8. Oral history interview with Kurt Herzog
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.3 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0003
Date:
interview: 1990 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… activities; immigrating illegally to Belgium after the Anschluss in 1938; interning in refugee camps until May 1940; being deported to the French refugee camp…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Oral history interview with Paul Muller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.6 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0006
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… refugee camp; fleeing from the camp to France when the war began; being transported to a camp in Orleans, France; being transferred to St. Cyprien camp and…
18. Oral history interview with Henry Wermuth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.56 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0056
Date:
interview: 1986 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by American troops on May 5, 1945; recovering in a hospital tent; registering for emigration to Palestine; living in a refugee camp in…
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 … me later, as well, if we come to that, and-- I mean, in the camps. And then he asked everybody his religion. Well, nobody expected to have Jews there…
19. Oral history interview with Ruth Fenton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.11 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0011
Date:
interview: 1984 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Americans; the American Red Cross taking over; meeting her husband at a refugee camp; being reunited with her brother; going to Italy after she and…
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 … grabbed and he was never seen again. She thinks he went to the camps. Only consumed 800 calories a day - she was very hungry. 11:52 Many friends died in…
20. Drevich family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.341
Date:
1942-1998
…Föhrenwald (Germany : Refugee camp)…