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1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
… thousands of Jewish children to safety in Britain. The last Kindertransport left Berlin on August 29, 1939. Norbert continued to work for the leadership of…
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 … Affairs, Vol 1, No. 12, 1946 17.11 Jewish Palestine fights back, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1946 17.12 JCIO (Jewish Central Information Office…
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2. Felix Librach papers
2012.469.6 Box 1 Folder 31 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.469.6
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1965
…Jewish Agency for Israel. Youth Aliyah Department…
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 … information about this collection • Series 4: Emigration and immigration, 1934-1945 • Series 5: Kibbutz Hulata, 1939-1958 Indexing terms Jewish Agency for…
3. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… the community. The Weiler’s were an assimilated but observant Jewish family. The town had a small synagogue for the twenty Jewish families. Fritz…
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 … Moselle. Languages: German, English, Spanish, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact…
4. Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend-Ring (Fond 1207)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.48 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.48
Date:
bulk: 1933-1936
inclusive: 1913-1936
Alternate Title:
Records of Jewish Youth Organization "Ring," Berlin
…, Federation of German-Jewish Youth (Ring, Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend, BDJJ). The BDJJ was a national organization for Jewish children and teenagers, who came…
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 … (Ring, Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend, BDJJ). The BDJJ was a national organization for Jewish children and teenagers, who came together for socialization…
5. Oral history interview with Norbert Wollheim
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0257
Date:
interview: 1991 May 10
interview: 1991 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Denmark, Sweden, and other countries in 1935; witnessing Kristallnacht in Berlin and then assisting the Jewish community in providing relief; arranging for…
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 … whatever it is and Jewish and German kings or whatnot...general things, and that that was very, very attractive for all of us and and it gave us a certain…
6. Oral history interview with Artur Posnanski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.119 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0119
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Artur Posnanski, born on July 30, 1912, in Berlin, Germany, describes his family; being part of a Jewish organization (ILI); working for a Jewish…
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 … and many decisive people did. 24.12 In the name of Jewish social agency for which I worked I took 120 children to Denmark in 1935. 25.30 In 1938 I…
7. Oral history interview with Peretz Leshem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.335 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0335
Date:
interview: 1998 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Camp Miranda and the conditions there; opening and heading the office of the Sochnut (Jewish Agency) in Lisbon, Portugal; having to get permission…
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 … them by answering questions and preparing them for immigration. 5:23 He opened and headed the office of the Sochnut (Jewish Agency) in Lisbon. His main…
8. Oral history interview with Gad Beck
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0361
Date:
interview: 1996 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… agricultural training in preparation for a move to Palestine; missing the last boat to Palestine because of illness and returning to work in Berlin; organizing a…
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 … of the Jewish Agency and the Seralud (ph) and all of the Jewish Institutions in the world led the relief efforts for the Jews in the affected countries…
9. Oral history interview with Susan Faulkner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.5 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0005
Date:
interview: 1983 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… measures in Berlin during the 1936 Olympic Games; attending a private Jewish school for a year; having a brief, unhappy experience in a Zionist agricultural…
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 …, there was religious instruction in the schools, including even Jewish instruction, and we were assigned to a Jewish teacher for one hour a week, and each…
10. Oral history interview with William Perl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10
interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Palestine for Jews in Vienna in 1936; the Anschluss in 1938 and the desire of many Austrian Jews to leave the country; meeting with Adolf Eichmann…
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 … effect at this time, but I remember that when most of Vienna started using for drawing pencils, pencils of the Jewish National Fund ______________ and he…
11. Oral history interview with Tzvi Aviram
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.4 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the Massuah Institute…
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 … immigration to Palestine. 8.17 Describes his work, moving people across borders working with the Jewish Agency and the Bridage. 8.33 March 1948, he went from…
12. Oral history interview with Eric Rosenon
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0087
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eric Rosenow, born in Berlin, Germany, discusses life before the war; being an actor in theater and cinema; the banning of Jewish people from…
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 … eliminated immediately. My music career in Germany lasted about two years. That was the end. Hitler eliminated to play-- that Jewish people perform for Gentile…
13. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
…Authorization from the Director of the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes required to duplicate microfilm reels for other archives. No…
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 … Dr. Luna (sp?), Jewish colonization association, Comite d'éducation de l'organisation des ouvriers juifs en Palestine, Keren Hayesod, Jewish National…
14. Oral history interview with Ernest Fontheim
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0450
Date:
interview: 1997 March 12
interview: 1997 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… joining a preparatory camp for immigration to Palestine; working at a labor camp on the outskirts of Berlin after the dissolution of the Hachshara…
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 … think that is in most European cities 239 00:15:27,990 --> 00:15:32,820 like that where Jewish communal life is handled Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
15. Oral history interview with Max Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.957 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0957
Date:
interview: 1998 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; leaving Holland for Palestine at some point before the German invasion; his experiences on the journey, and the challenges he encountered upon arrival; his…
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 … trouble. So one day the Rabbi call up and tell us We pick you up tomorrow. You come out to the Jewish agency. TA1 1. 7P IA1 Tn TT have papers for you. But…
16. Oral history interview with Ruth Harvey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0364 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0089
Date:
interview: 1997 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Margaret Garrett, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on August 22, 1997 in…
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 …:11,690 --> 00:17:14,780 at something called the Palästina Amt, 377 00:17:14,780 --> 00:17:18,740 the Office for Palestine, a Jewish organization near…
17. Oral history interview with Gerhart Riegner
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0189
Date:
interview: 1991 April 28
interview: 1992 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deciding to leave Germany for Paris, France; being hired as a representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Switzerland; after the war working on…
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 … time, near 1930, you are still balancing in your mind the dual loyalty of being German and Jewish and trying to figure out for yourself what are the…
18. Oral history interview with Werner Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.83 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0083
Date:
interview: 1992 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; living a comfortable life, with many Chinese servants; attending German and English schools, technical college, and a French-Jewish university; the student…
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 … heart, could read Hebrew fluently, and were busy discussing special prayers for the holidays and so on. I sat there like a good German Jewish boy. I knew…
19. Oral history interview with Hanna Cassel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.154 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0154
Date:
interview: 1992 August 11
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… would never amount to anything; her very good non-Jewish friends, especially at school; her family home and her childhood and her love for reading; not…
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 … situation, I wanted still to go to Palestine. And one of my friends who was very wealthy deposited some money for me with a man who was going to get me there…
20. Oral history interview with Herbert Katzki
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0337
Date:
interview: 1995 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herbert Katzki, born on October 4, 1907 in Elizabeth, NJ, describes his family and background; volunteering to work in Europe for the Joint…
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 … involved. The Jewish agency was there to control -- to have something to say about people going to Palestine and issuing certificates for that purpose. There…