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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…) arranged for his escape into Switzerland where he remained for the duration of the war. Peter immigrated to the United States in July 1946 with the aid of…
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 …, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland…
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2. 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
…, Switzerland, and the United States. There is also correspondence The papers regarding Wiesenfeld’s engineering career include correspondence regarding his…
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 … information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org 3 from his travels in Austria, Croatia, Turkey, Montenegro, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland…
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3. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
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 …, Netherlands and Paris, circa 1932-circa 1933 (2 folders) BE 1 2.27 Grey album with drawing of children, Amsterdam and Switzerland, 1933-1934 (2 folders) OS 3…
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4. John Rothschild memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2011.359.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, written by John J. Rothschild, originally of Zurich, Switzerland. In his memoir, Mr. Rothschild, who moved to France…
5. Oral history interview with Steven Switzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1054
Date:
interview: 2019 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Switzerland; being granted approval and placed in a camp for refugees; being placed with the Mueller family in St. Gallen, Switzerland in December 1944; staying…
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 … Switzerland, a lovely, small village, 351 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:16,640 mostly farming and dairy country with lots and lots of snow. 352 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22…
6. Oral history interview with Rafael Menda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.215.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1143
Date:
interview: 2022 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rafael Menda discusses his experience fleeing Fascist Italy; first to Switzerland, then to France, and departing Saint Nazare on the ship S…
7. Oral history interview with Charles Ticho
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.410.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1053
Date:
interview: 2019 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his mother who was in Switzerland at the time of the occupation; his father who was arrested and interned in Dachau; being separated from his brother…
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 … American citizenship. 893 00:46:17,910 --> 00:46:21,400 And when she returned and got to Switzerland 894 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,112 is when the Nazis…
8. Oral history interview with Hélène Spierer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.123 | RG Number: RG-90.060.0001
Date:
interview: 2017 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Geneva (Switzerland)…
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 … family's origins; Chêne- Bougeries near Geneva, Switzerland; her mother born in 1896 in Chêne-Bourg; her father born in 1887 in Izmir (Smyrne), southern…
9. Oral history interview with Ruth K. Westheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.237.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0675
Date:
interview: 2012 October 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish children in Wartheim, Switzerland, while a resident there from Jan 1939 through July 1945 and reads portions of her memoir, "Musically Speaking…
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 …, many times, because that's really 29 00:01:59,110 --> 00:02:04,270 the story of my coming out of Nazi Germany and Switzerland. 30 00:02:04,270 --> 00:02…
10. Interviews and outtakes from the meeting of the Chandler and Kurtz families
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.506.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1070
Date:
Recorded: 2012 January 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… identified him in historic film footage of Nasielsk, Poland, titled "Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938"; Accession…
11. Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.92.1 | RG Number: RG-58.046
Date:
inclusive: 2011
Alternate Title:
Elsbeth Kasses papers
…Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992) a nurse and refugee aid worker, was born in Niederscherli, Switzerland, the daughter of Friedrich, a pastor, and Anna (née…
12. Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.94.1 | RG Number: RG-58.048
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2011
Alternate Title:
Hugo Schriesheimer papers
…Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989) was a Holocaust survivor and Zionist from Konstanz, Germany who fled to Switzerland and emigrated after the war to the…
13. Ernest Bergman philatelic and document collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.194.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2012
… mandated the separation of Jews and non-Jews. The increasing pressures led Ernst to immigrate in 1936 to St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he lived with Julia…
14. Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.96.1 | RG Number: RG-58.050
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2016
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August Bohny-Reiter papers
…August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016) was born in Switzerland, educated to be a primary school teacher, and then served in the Swiss military. In the…
15. Oral history interview with George Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.58.1 | RG Number: RG-90.237.0001
Date:
interview: 2011
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after Mussolini came to power; moving again to Switzerland after France became unsafe; and finally settling in the United States in 1947.…
16. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0419
Date:
interview: 2013 April 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… company based in Germany and a warehouse located in Switzerland, and his mother, who helped his father with the business; the Nazis’ rise to power in…
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 … Germany was no longer a place where Gerry could be safe, were prescient enough to send him to Switzerland. He was one of a group of 280 children sent to…
17. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0328
Date:
interview: 2011 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… company based in Germany and a warehouse located in Switzerland, and his mother, who helped his father with the business; the Nazis’ rise to power in…
18. Oral history interview with Erwin Dankner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.236.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0674
Date:
interview: 2012 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; spending six months in the camp and being treated differently from other prisoners; being fed adequately; being sent with a group to Switzerland in the fall…
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 … 1944, after 6 months in the camp, they were sent in a group to Switzerland. Dessi Dorant, from the Metropolitan Opera, was in this group. Erwin also said…
19. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0368
Date:
interview: 2012 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… company based in Germany and a warehouse located in Switzerland, and his mother, who helped his father with the business; the Nazis’ rise to power in…
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 … Germany and the warehouse was located in Switzerland. His mother helped his father with the business. Gerald attended a German school until April 1933. The…
20. Oral history interview with Juan Jorge Schäffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.375.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0909
Date:
interview: 2016 November 22
interview: 2016 September 29
interview: 2016 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Switzerland with his parents in March 1938, and remaining there for several months while his parents tried to salvage their business and belongings…
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 …,840 --> 00:47:48,400 He through his work had some very good contacts abroad, 918 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,490 in particular in Zurich, in Switzerland. 919 00…