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1. Group portrait of school children in the Westerbork refugee camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 79058
Date:
1941
…Group portrait of school children in the Westerbork refugee camp.…
2. Two German Jewish refugees pose outside at the Westerbork refugee camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 19263
Date:
August 1939
…Two German Jewish refugees pose outside at the Westerbork refugee camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands.…
3. Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland
Document | Accession Number: 2017.458.1 | RG Number: RG-41.019
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Alternate Title:
Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany
…Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel…
4. Selected records from collections of the National Archives, Hague
Document | Accession Number: 2007.137 | RG Number: RG-41.005M
Date:
1933-1948
… education, deportation of Jews, refugee camps in Rotterdam, Jewish orphans, camp Westerbork, records from the consulates in New York and Geneva, economic…
5. 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…
6. Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.9 | RG Number: RG-41.011
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Westerbork, Jewish transit camp
… well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942…
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 … was a rather startling sight as you approached the camp [...]. It was completely surrounded with barbed wire and had four lookout towers. Approximately…
7. Oral history interview with Mirjam Pinkhof
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.67 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0067
Date:
interview: 1989 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Luxembourg.…
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 … 1944, she was imprisoned at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen. She describes the deprivation in the camps and on the evacuation train, where she was kept for…
8. Oral history interview with Walter Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the US in April 1940; waiting in Cologne, Germany until May 9, 1940 when they were allowed to enter Holland; being kept in a refugee camp in Rotterdam…
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 … been checked for spelling or accuracy. 0:38 While waiting for their departure they were put in a Holland refugee camp in Rotterdam. 0:39 While in Holland…
9. Oral history interview with Max Erlichman
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.205 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0205
Date:
interview: 1994 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
10. Oral history interview with Casper Sla
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.587 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0006
Date:
interview: 2004 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany--Munich.…
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 … Rotterdam and taken by boat via Amsterdam to Camp Weezep. There somebody who tried to escape was shot. Then he was transported to Groningen by train, and then…
11. Oral history interview with Doriane Kurz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.420.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0120
Date:
interview: 1990 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Netherlands--Maastricht.…
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 … that prison called Vught in Holland for three and a half months and from there he was sent to a prison camp called Amersfoort and 4 Date uncertain. http…
12. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Czech Republic--Plzen.…
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 … were...we were not the only ones who came. Everybody was confused. And uh we were told that we were going to a family camp to work and that we should…
13. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married…
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 … refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married Rita Schlachet and had a child, Marie. Kurt, his wife, and young daughter…
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  • Series 3: Various 1939-1955
    • File 2: Photographs 1939-1955
14. Oral history interview with Max Erlichman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.181 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0181
Date:
interview: 1993 December 10
interview: 1994 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany--Würzburg.…
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 …,540 unless they went to one of the other camps. 159 00:10:01,540 --> 00:10:05,500 160 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:12,310 Subsequently, after the war, they never 161…
15. Oral history interview with Renata Laqueur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0289 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0370
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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 … after '33. '33 the first immigrants came from Germany fleeing Hitler and my father immediately got into committees, helped and was on refugees committees…
16. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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 …‐‐Netherlands. Refugee camps‐‐Germany. Typhus fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Hospitals‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945…
17. Oral history interview with Betti Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.59 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0059
Date:
interview: 1991 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Sweden--Malmö.…
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 …, roundups, Razzias, raids, and collaboration by some Dutch people. The Dutch police arrested her father, sent him to a Dutch concentration camp and then to…
18. Felix Lilienthal family papers
2017.524.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.524.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1960
bulk: 1871-1941
… camp by 1943. On 14 September 1943, Saul and Bertha were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. On 27 January 1944 they were deported to the…
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 … camp) Topical Subject: Jewish families--Germany. Cantors (Judaism) Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) Refugees, Jewish. Geography: Wiesbaden (Germany…
19. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… of 1942, Kurt sent him packages in Litzmannstadt (Łódź), where he was being held. Later, Kurt was transported to Westerbork transit camp in preparation…
20. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank
2018.613.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.3
Date:
use: approximately 1935
…, German authorities began deporting Jews from the Netherlands, via the Westerbork transit camp. On July 5, Otto’s daughter, Margot, received a summons to…