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1. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
2. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
3. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
4. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
5. Hebrew and German prayer book owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.2
Date:
publication: 1885
emigration: 1938 September
Title:
Festgebete der Israeliten
Alternate Title:
Feast Prayers of the Israelites
… money to help them seek asylum in Belgium. Leo began his trip to the US, arriving in New York City on September 23, 1938. He secured affidavits so that…
6. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… took the Polish water polo team to the Olympics. Rather than join the Communist Party, Henryk defected to Belgium in 1957, with the help of friends from…
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 … United States through Poland and Belgium, and attempts to establish a life in New York. This collection also includes restitution files for damages and…
7. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
8. Oral history interviews with Esther Moses and Herbert Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.701.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was liberated; learning the fates of her family members; moving to Belgium following liberation and staying in a displaced persons camp where she met…
9. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
10. Nathan Chorowicz documents
Document | Accession Number: 2012.441.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
11. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
12. Roger François papers
2005.25.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2005.25.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Roger Leon Francois was born on July 23, 1914, in Ledeberg, Belgium. He served in the Belgian Army throughout the 1930s. He was given leave from the…
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 …. Processing history: Morgan Voth, February 2019. Biographical note Roger Leon François (1914-1993) was born in Ledeberg, Belgium and served in the Belgian Army…
13. 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…
14. Oral history interview with Mayer Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.25 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0025
Date:
interview: 2015 November 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; discovering his brother had survived Auschwitz; reuniting with his brother in Belgium; immigrating to the United States in 1948 on the “SS Washington”; his…
15. Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.8 a-e
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
16. Circular, geometric-patterned earring owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.3
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
17. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… to allow him into Belgium, where his wife and son later joined him. Fritz kept in contact with Leopold’s family, who had been smuggled into Belgium as…
18. Oral history interview with Jakub Gutenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.4 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0004
Date:
interview: 1994 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… assigned to an orphanage in Helenówek; briefly visiting relatives in Belgium; studying in Moscow; his academic career; his reluctance to share his…
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 … high school. After learning about his father’s death from his uncle, Mr. Guttenbaum travelled to Belgium to meet with the dentist Rosenberg. Due to the…
19. Records relating to Breendonck concentration camp
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0108.1 | RG Number: RG-04.026.01
Date:
1940-1991
…Relates to the persecution, deportation, and killing of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates of Breendonk concentration camp in Belgium. Included are copies…
20. Cream-colored, underskirt with a diamond pattern and an eyelet ruffle owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.11
Date:
creation: 1901-1914
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…