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41. 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
… shooting; going to Clermont-Ferrand then to Vert-au-Laye; renting a room on a farm; going to Lyon, France to the Spanish, Portuguese, and American consulates…
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 … American visa Anna and baby went to Stara-Boleslav- hid in furniture van to get to Prague Father got them a Belgian visa - waited 14 hours at Gestapo HQ…
42. Oral history interview with Joseph Hanfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.62 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0062
Date:
interview: 1992 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by the Americans at Linz; traveling to Budapest, Hungary in 1945; going to Austria and Italy to lead groups of refugees across borders…
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 … Russian POW’s. 4.20 Kapo “Black Jacob” and his crimes. 4.27 Bombardments by Americans of factory and railways. 4.30 Describes his work, repairing bomb…
43. 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
… collect rent; life in the village; German threats against the village; air raids; the American liberation; living in Chateau de Marjolet after the war…
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 …, some grown-ups go back and see if everything’s all right. And then I remember liberation, it was great. All the American tanks came through town, and…
44. Oral history interview with Jacques Lipetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.115 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0115
Date:
interview: 1988 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… German Nazi family; conditions in Manila towards the end of the war and liberation by Americans; Jewish chaplains holding a Passover Seder for the Jewish…
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 … Nazi family. Jacques describes conditions in Manila towards the end of the war and liberation by Americans. Jewish chaplains held a Passover Seder for…
45. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
2014.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2014.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1995
bulk: 1940-1945
…, German, Italian and American literature, graduating with a BA from Duke University in 1936 and an MA from Columbia University in 1940. During his studies…
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 … drafts created and collected by Roswell and Marjorie McClelland regarding their work for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe between 1940…
46. Oral history interview with Ralph M. Hockley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0873
Date:
interview: 2016 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gurs; the release of his father in December 1939; not being allowed to attend school after September 1940; volunteering as a translator at the American…
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 … were owned by the German government. And all I had to do was pick up the telephone and call the American military engineers and say, hey, I need this and…
47. Oral history interview with Jacques Darmon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.428.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0852
Date:
interview: 2015 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… center that was setup by the Americans; how his education gradually distanced him from religious beliefs; passing his baccalaureate and going to Alger then…
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 … primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. 2 The Americans set-up a cultural center and Mr. Darmon sings the Star-Spangled…
48. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States on a student visa in the fall of 1948 to join her American relatives; completing her education and meeting her husband; and how her reluctance to…
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 … entered the United States on a student visa in the fall of 1948, to join her American relatives. She completed her education and met her husband. She…
49. Oral history interview with Robert T. Shays
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.1.1 | RG Number: RG-90.213.0001
Date:
interview: 2008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … other American troops brought to the site to bear witness to the massacre; Shays hearing that a few of the prisoners had survived; the German surrender…
50. JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs
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Film | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2628 | Film ID: 2320
Film Title:
Telex from Geneva
Date:
Production: 1965
Duration:
00:14:23
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…This film can be licensed from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives (archives@jdc.org).…
51. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… States, attempted to help his family obtain visas for Cuba while they waited for American visas. He was able to obtain the proper paperwork and in March…
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 …, who was already living in the United States, attempted to help his family obtain visas for Cuba while they waited for American visas. He was able to…
52. Oral history interview with Billy Taylor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.40 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Shelby, training Japanese American soldiers; how the men were loyal and they wanted to prove it; going to Italy; forming units at the University of Naples…
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 … Arkansas National Guard unit. And I had a battery, a firing battery. But then, when they decided to form this combat team, the Hawaiian-- Japanese-American…
53. Oral history interview with Juliette Peternick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.83.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0271
Date:
interview: 2019 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; feeling American when she was in junior high school; becoming a citizen in 1947 along with her parents; graduating from the University of Rochester as a…
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 …,442 Excalibur. 631 00:36:24,442 --> 00:36:26,330 It was an American boat? 632 00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:27,380 Yes. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
54. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… of three transports of children from Montintin to the American Consulate in Marseille. In June, over 100 children left Marseille on a transport…
55. Oral history interview with Reine Tata Chouraqui
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.51.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0688
Date:
interview: 2013 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… group; learning that her siblings, Dina and Léon, died in the Sobibor death camp; working at the post office; meeting Bernie Marks, one of the American…
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 … Marks, one of the American sailors piloting the Exodus. She had no particular interest in Zionism or emigrating to Israel. She maintains that she did not…
56. Patton and other US Army officers; V-E day
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1548 | Film ID: 4114
Film Title:
Rover Boys Abroad Europe
Date:
Event: April-May 1945
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:22:10
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler. He was the voice of Movietone News.…
57. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… of three transports of children from Montintin to the American Consulate in Marseille. In June, over 100 children left Marseille on a transport…
58. Selma Wideroff papers
1995.A.1189.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1189.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
… American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in November 1945. She served first in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons (DP) camp as the liaison…
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 … the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in November 1945. She served first in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons (DP) camp as the…
59. Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0082
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1986
… exhibition of contemporary Latin American art.…
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 …, where she was doing preliminary work on a Hirshhorn exhibition of contemporary Latin American art. System of arrangement Arrangement is thematic. Indexing…
60. Gaston Kahn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2003
… American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Paris. The organization was founded in 1934 to provide aid to Jewish refugees escaping German oppression. It…