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1. 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…
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 Ava Schönberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.232.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0232
Date:
interview: 2014 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being smuggled into Switzerland in April 1944, staying in a refugee camp and then with a family in Zurich until the end of the war; being placed in an…
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 …,280 --> 00:15:28,820 and they put us in a refugee camp. 374 00:15:28,820 --> 00:15:29,320 OK. 375 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,470 And the refugee camp had straw…
4. Oral history interview with Volter Simoni
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.217 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0217
Date:
interview: 1995 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium in 1938; his internment in a refugee camp in between Brussels and Antwerp, in Mechelen, Belgium, for fifteen months; learning agriculture in…
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 …. The Belgian authorities declared that all refugees who would be willing to be interned in a refugee camp, would be granted the status of temporary…
5. Oral history interview with Ethel Hersh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.304 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0304
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
6. 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
…; missing the train and being sent to a refugee camp for two to three months, then a children’s home, and then to a camp near Utrecht; his mother finding then…
7. Oral history interview with Angele Maranian
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.179.1 | RG Number: RG-50.878.0001
Date:
interview: 1987-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--England--London.…
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 … internment camps. Angèle and Maurice, newly wed and just getting acquainted, were separated into two camps that were 500 miles apart. They did not know if they…
8. 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
…Refugee camps--Cuba--Havana.…
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 … learn the refugee routine. 873 00:59:52,010 --> 00:59:55,130 First, you're taken to a detention camp. 874 00:59:55,130 --> 00:59:56,560 Then they sort you…
9. 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
…Refugee camps--Switzerland.…
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 … all these refugees, now most of these refugees who were in that camp now, aside from the Spaniards that were still there were now Jewish refugees…
10. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany--Frankfurt am Main.…
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 … as a refugee child. Q: When and where were you born? A: I was born on the 15th of August, 1926 in Munchglablak, Germany, which is West Germany near…
11. Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers
1995.49.9 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.49.9
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1940
undated: 
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Save Their Stories
…Refugee camp--Belgium.…
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 …, Peter. Refugee camp--Belgium. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
12. 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
…Refugee camps--Belgium.…
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 … sewing or something. And this is what I did. But then the Jewish community prepared camps for the refugees. And I was first sent to a children's camp…
13. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… required paper work from Zurich. They were sent to a refugee camp in Bex, and later moved to Maur. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945…
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 …; and student, citizenship, refugee, and camp papers. The records trace the Vendig family’s precarious citizenship, refugee, internee, and immigrant…
14. Oral history interview with Fanny Aizenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0455
Date:
interview: 2014 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Belgium in May 1940; becoming involved in the Belgian resistance movement by hiding refugees in her attic; arranging a hiding place for Josiane…
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 … denounced and sent to the Malines transit camp in Belgium and then to Auschwitz. The arrow on this map points to Auschwitz. https://collections…
15. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…, taken to the transit camp at Malines, and in January 1944 deported to Auschwitz, where they were eventually assigned to the “Union” munitions factory for…
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 …) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Neustadt‐Glewe (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐Israel‐‐Tel Aviv. Jewish refugees‐‐Belgium…
16. 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…
17. 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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 … you to a detention camp. >> Michel Margosis: Not quite. That was later on. Then we went to a farm. Friends that we had known from Ukraine. We stayed…
18. 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
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … remember that we were chasing after a train who 469 00:21:27,310 --> 00:21:30,280 was leaving full of refugees. 470 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:36,650 And that…
19. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Europe in 1945 and worked for UNRRA at the Wels Displaced Persons Camp until 1946.…
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 …, their immigration to the United States in 1940 and 1941, and Gerard Zonligt’s work as an UNRRA officer at the Wels displaced persons camp. Language: Dutch…
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…