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1. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
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2. Oral history interview with Paul Muller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.6 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0006
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… refugee camp; fleeing from the camp to France when the war began; being transported to a camp in Orleans, France; being transferred to St. Cyprien camp and…
3. Oral history interview with Renée Mayer-Astruc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.36 | RG Number: RG-50.685.0001
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1980-1989
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Renée Mayer-Astruc (née Zélia Renée Kohn) born in Paris, France in 1911, discusses her life in prewar France, her Belgian-born husband, her mother…
4. Oral history interview with Peter Kory
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.50.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0689
Date:
interview: 2013 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the German invasion of Belgium; his father’s arrest as an enemy alien by the Allied forces; leaving Belgium for France with his mother as a refugee…
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 … towards France. 276 00:18:51,140 --> 00:18:54,830 We had gotten through the grapevine the information 277 00:18:54,830 --> 00:19:02,280 that other enemy…
5. 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…
6. Oral history interview with Ben Rosenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.781 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0781
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents following later; going with his sister to France; staying in safe houses en route to Lyon, France; hiding in Lyon from 1942 to 1945; his parents…
7. Oral history interview with Regine Ginsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.58.1 | RG Number: RG-90.187.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 January 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hiding places--France.…
8. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0031
Date:
interview: 2001 March 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
9. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0105
Date:
interview: 2003 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
10. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0650
Date:
interview: 2018 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … see his father's press card. In 1940 when the Germans invaded Belgium, Michel and his family fled to the south of France where they ended up in…
11. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0249
Date:
interview: 2009 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
12. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0404
Date:
interview: 2012 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 …’s eleventh birthday in 1939, he was shopping with his mother when church bells rang out, announcing that France and England had declared war on Germany because…
13. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0322
Date:
interview: 2011 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
14. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0609
Date:
interview: 2017 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … the South of France where they ended up in Marseille. The arrow shows their route from Belgium to Southern France. Here we see 14-year-old Michel…
15. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0290
Date:
interview: 2010 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
16. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0484
Date:
interview: 2014 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … Belgium, Michel and his family fled to the south of France and ended up in Marseille. The arrows show their route from Belgium to Southern France. Here we…
17. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0719
Date:
interview: 2006 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
18. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0170
Date:
interview: 2005 August 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
19. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0574
Date:
interview: 2016 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … in front is of Michel's father's press card. In 1940, when the Germans invaded Belgium, Michel and his family fled to the South of France where they…
20. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0072
Date:
interview: 2002 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
21. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0136
Date:
interview: 2004 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
22. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0520
Date:
interview: 2015 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … France where they end up in Marseille. The arrows on this map show their route from Belgium to Southern France. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
23. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0737
Date:
interview: 2007 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
24. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0436
Date:
interview: 2013 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
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 … south of France where they ended up in the slums of Marseilles. The arrows show the route from Belgium to southern France. Here we see 14-year-old Michel…
25. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had gone to the Caen prison camp in France; moving with his mother and sister to Paris, France but then traveling to Bordeaux because of the intense…
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 … into France later on. Q: Do you know much about your mother's family, what they did? A: No, not . . . Q: What kind of a town they lived in? A: They were…
26. Donald Q. Coster collection
2016.394.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2016.394.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… was shelled near Amiens, France and he was taken captive by German troops. He was released six weeks later. He was then conscripted into to the United…
27. Oral history interview with Armand Mednick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.117 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0117
Date:
interview: 1983 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… tuberculosis and being hospitalized at age six until May 1940, when his father, an active political leftist, fled with his family to France; his father being…
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 … political leftist, fled with his family to France. His father was drafted into the French Army, deserted and placed his son, renamed “Armand”, in a sanitarium…
28. Oral history interview with Bernard Mednicki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.93 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0093
Date:
interview: 1982 April 27
interview: 1982 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; fleeing with his wife and children to Paris, France, assuming Christian identities; traveling through southern France and reuniting with his family in Riom…
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 … defensive war, if you lived in Belgium, or in France; it's not offensive wars. JF: What about your father? Was he... BM: No, my father was never, because he…
29. Oral history interview with Jack Silven
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.38.1 | RG Number: RG-90.173.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium in the 1920s and 1930s; Germany’s invasion of Belgium on May 10, 1940; fleeing on a train from Brussels to a town in southwestern France, Saint…
30. Oral history interview with Joan Salter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.797 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0797
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joan Salter, born on February 15, 1940 in Brussels, Belgium, discusses her family; living in Paris, France; her father leaving Paris for Vichy France…
31. Cecile Rojer Jeruchim photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.677.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1948
… Cecile married Simon Jeruchim, a child survivor from France.…
32. Oral history interview with Regine Ginsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.142 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0183
Date:
interview: 2010 April 23
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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 … train took us to the southern part of France. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of…
33. Oral history interview with Fred Kornreich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.723 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0723
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to immigrate to the United States; moving to Aachen, Germany then Antwerp, Belgium in 1939; moving to France in 1940, returning to Brussels, Belgium…
34. Oral history interview with Ulrich Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.91 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0091
Date:
interview: 1988 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… March 31, 1939; his company setting up an office in Paris, France in July 1939; his wife and child living in Argenteuil, France and experiencing…
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 …. And I rather liked learning something new. So this wasn't a problem. I spent a nice vacation first in France, my first time there. And what year was…
35. Oral history interview with Fred Knoller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; leaving the camp in May 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion of Belgium; going to France; being arrested by French police and imprisoned in an…
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 … away when they started invading. And we walked to France. Did you have any warning of the Germans' likely invasion of Belgium? Oh, we continuously had…
36. Albert M. Sharon memoir
1995.A.0636 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0636
Date:
1990
… was 15 years old, the Germans invaded Belgium. Albert, along with his two sisters and one brother, fled with his parents to France in order to escape…
37. Oral history interview with Floris Gryfenberg Kalman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.10 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0010
Date:
interview: 1995 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Floris Gryfenberg Kalman, born in Brussels, Belgium, describes her Polish parents who had immigrated in 1929; fleeing to France in May 1940; her…
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 … immigrated in 1929. When the war came to Belgium in May 1940, the family fled to France. Her father was inducted in the Polish army in France. Floris, her…
38. Oral history interview with Joshka Schidlow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.552.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1000
Date:
interview: 2018 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Paris (France)…
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 …1 Interview with Joshka SCHIDLOW1 on November 1, 2018 Paris, France WAV M4197006 1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds Joshka (Joseph) SCHIDLOW was born on…
39. Oral history interview with Therese Lacroix and Marcelle Lacroix
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.50 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0050
Date:
interview: 1988 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
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 … been checked for spelling or accuracy. 10:00 Marcelle, Therese's mother, was born in 1896 in Godogne (ph.) France, which is a province. She was born on a…
40. Oral history interview with Anna Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.89 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0089
Date:
interview: 1990 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… van to get to Prague; getting visas to Belgium; meeting her father in Brussels, Belgium in March 1939; going to Argenteuil, France; seeing planes and…
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 …. So the whole thing wasn't valid anymore. We were already in France at the time. Did you feel safe in your home? Before France, did you feel safe? In…
41. Oral history interview with Hanna Gold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.11 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0011
Date:
interview: 1993 December 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of 34 interviews of Holocaust survivors in the Paris, France area…
42. Oral history interview with Ruth Brunn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.12 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0012
Date:
interview: 1999 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… flight with her mother and sister from Germany to Strasbourg, France and then Brussels, Belgium; their life in Brussels until the Nazi invasion; how her…
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 … the business there. So you went to Strasbourg first? Yes. That was France? https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
43. Oral history interview with Alfred Fiks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.377.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0907
Date:
interview: 2016 August 18
interview: 2016 September 29
interview: 2016 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s experiences during Kristallnacht; his father’s in-depth letter to Max describing Kristallnacht; his father’s escape to Paris, France; his father arranging visas…
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 …,760 --> 00:23:53,320 No. 364 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,850 Well, not in Poland. 365 00:23:56,850 --> 00:23:59,580 I did meet some later on, in France. 366 00…
44. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
… were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château de la Hille, near the Spanish border…
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 … Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred were placed in a children’s home. In May 1940, the children's home was evacuated to France, ending up at Château…
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  • Series 2: Photographs 1942-1944, Undated
    • File 1: OSE Chateaux de la Hille photographs 1942-1944, Undated
45. Oral history interview with Helene Barac
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0302
Date:
interview: 1995 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… German invasion in 1940 because he was Jewish; fleeing with her parents to Paris, France but getting captured en route to Toulouse; being transported to…
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 … because they were equally bad things to people that I knew and saw around me. Now by the time we got to the South of France and I got myself situated or I…
46. Oral history interview with W. Louis Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.14 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0014
Date:
interview: 1984 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, who was an attorney with the German government; his father working from 1925 to 1931 in the German embassy in Nice, France; his mother, Lottie Epstein…
47. Oral history interview with Herbert Salzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.928 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0928
Date:
interview: 2004 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… arrest on his way to France due to improper paperwork; his experiences during six months in a French labor camp; his release and journey to Nice; his…
48. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… camp at Les Milles, France. Alma and Ursula followed him to France to try to find him but were arrested in Paris and detained in the internment camp at…
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 … and brief stay in Belgium, internment in France, and immigration to the United States via Lisbon. Languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese…
49. Oral history interview with Samuel Barasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.994 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0994
Date:
interview: 1990 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in 1940; their flight to France and return to Belgium after the invasion of France; their move to Brussels…
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 … invaded Belgium, Samuel and his family attempted to flee again, this time to France. When news of the German invasion of France reached them, they returned…
50. Oral history interview with Sami Schonberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.35 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0035
Date:
interview: 1990 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; not foreseeing the German occupation; the increasing restrictions and chaos for Jews; trying to go to southern France with his sister, but getting…