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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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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. 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…
3. Oral history interview with Rafael Menda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.215.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1143
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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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.92.1 | RG Number: RG-58.046
Date:
inclusive: 2011
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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…
9. Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.94.1 | RG Number: RG-58.048
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2011
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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…
10. 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…