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1. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
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… Antwerp. In May 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. The family fled Antwerp for France with Edith’s uncle Max Scheiner and his family in his bakery…
2. Oral history interview with Gerda Blachmann Wilchfort
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0325 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0251
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interview: 1989 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United Jewish Appeal; crossing the Belgium border into France by foot but not finding a much better living situation; discovering a castle in the French…
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 … France and England. And uh I don't remember very well I was up on deck not near my parents. You know when you're sixteen you don't cling to your parents…
3. Oral history interview with André Zalc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.168 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0533
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Joyce Mizrachi; his family’s eastern European background; how his family was able to flee to France; the train ride to southern France; his family…
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 … World War, where – when I went to France and everything, and then later I’ll talk about my parents, okay? Q: Start with your childhood. A: Yeah, yeah. I…
4. Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.167 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0532
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; fleeing to France with her family when war broke out; living in the internment camp Rivesaltes in Vichy France; her mother’s difficult pregnancy due to lack…
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 …, we decided to leave Antwerp, and we packed whatever we could in a – in a rush to leave, and – for France. And I was a little girl, I really didn…
5. Oral history interview with Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0469 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0016
Date:
interview: 1996 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Catholic in France; returning to Antwerp with her mother after the war; reuniting with her father after his liberation from a concentration camp; the changed…
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 … because that sounded more French when we got into France. And then with all the various papers that my parents got, mostly my mother, I was with her most of…
6. Oral history interview with Philip Pressel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2023.57.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1168
Date:
creation: 2023 April 17-2023 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marseille (France)…
7. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942
1997.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0128
Date:
creation: 1997-1997
… invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and…
8. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers
2011.278.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.278.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1957
… attacked Belgium and France and Joseph was sent to defend Paris. He and 13 other soldiers were briefly taken prisoner by German forces but were ultimately…
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 …. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false…
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9. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
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Save Their Stories
… Hilde escaped southward through Belgium into France, reaching southern France by late June. Initially the family stayed in various locations in the…
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 … recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister…
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10. Oral history interview with Alfred Lakritz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.64 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0173
Date:
interview: 2008 April 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … months the family moved to Marmande, France, to escape bombings by the German Airforce. In July of 1942, Lakritz’s parents sent Lakritz and his brother to…
11. Esther Bergman memoir
Esther Bergman memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1988.084 | RG Number: RG-02.013.01
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…Esther Bergman (née Stern) was born in Antwerp on 21 March 1935. After the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, her family fled to southern France…
12. Oral history interview with Myriam Blitz-Leiser
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0285
Date:
interview: 1994 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… border to Switzerland; escaping with her daughter to Nice, France but being caught there; hiding her daughter in a children's home in France; her…
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 …. As conditions worsened for Jews in Belgium, she left with her family and close friends and headed for Aix-les-Baines, France where she helped Jews…
13. Isidore Lipschutz papers
2001.117.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.117.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1975
… establishment of the Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr in Paris, France.…
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 …) – Belgium. New York (New York) Antwerp (Belgium) Paris (France) Photographs CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr…
14. Oral history interview with Georges Brandstatter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.462.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1061
Date:
interview: 2019 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… wear the Jewish star; his family’s decision to flee to France in August 1942; the arrest of his family and internment in the Gurs camp; the Quakers…
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 … towards France, by train in August, 1942. When their papers (they only had Polish papers) were checked on the train, the family was arrested and sent to the…
15. Oral history interview with Helene Baraf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.361 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0015
Date:
interview: 1990 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United States in 1937; her return to Belgium with her mother and brother in 1940; traveling to France with her family by train and on foot after the…
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 … decided we cannot stay. Uh...It was the war. So we took some of our possessions and we took the train direction of France. The train was stopped at the...uh…
16. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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Save Their Stories
… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi- occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States…
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17. Oral history interview with Arnold Einhorn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0463 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0020
Date:
interview: 1996 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the 1930s when two strong fascist groups emerged; the German invasion of Belgium and the bombing of Antwerp; fleeing to France with his family; being…
18. Oral history interview with Flora Mendelowitz Singer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0356
Date:
interview: 1995 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; arriving in Calais, France, where they attempted to board a Red Cross ship but were turned away; continuing to Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, where their journey…
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 … trundle seat in the back, getting ready to escape to France, because that's where everybody was heading, everybody was heading towards Northern France…
19. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… forced to leave. The family packed their 1938 Oldsmobile Sedan and drove through France. On the way, the family encountered British troops, when Michel…
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 … through France, Spain, and Portugal before immigrating to the United States. The contents of the papers contain various documents of Michael and Manya…
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20. Oral history interview with Anna Leiser-Kleinhaus
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0286
Date:
interview: 1994 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… identifying Jewish star; her father and a neighbor being taken to a Nazi work camp in France; going into hiding in a Catholic children’s home in Nice, France…
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 … think that this is when we went to France with the idea of trying to get to Switzerland because Switzerland was a safe place. If I remember when we got to…