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1. Watercolor painting of people in line for lunch acquired by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.20
Date:
creation: 1943
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
2. Oral history interview with Solomon Slucki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1455 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1455
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … once nd 23 asked me should make him coat. said cangive 24 you thIs and that. He said No when you find something 25 good of the pre-war material want you…
3. Oral history interview with Ursula Sherman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1265 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1265
Date:
interview: 1991 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Women.…
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 … separate at the entrance and my mother 26 and the women would go upstairs. And that was my exposure 27 to religion early on. 28 My father never went. He…
4. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0111
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to offer before the war; her father’s placement on the Nazi blacklist for being a liberal writer and journalist; attempting to leave Austria and go to…
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 … declaration of war between...uh...Germany and France on...in...uh...I would like to add too that in the period just before I..I met a young student who, a Czech…
5. Oral history interview with Arlette de Long
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.31 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0031
Date:
interview: 1993 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. This volunteer project was conducted with support and technical advice from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States Holocaust…
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 … baptized and attended a Catholic school. She describes her life in their town after the war. After the war, she lived in Paris suburbs until she was 18. In…
6. Pitcher made from an Eatonia Brand butter can and used by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.9
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
7. Oral history interview with Jacqueline Birn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0472
Date:
interview: 2014 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …. The Mendels lived in Paris and life was quite normal until World War II began. This is a birthday card Jacqueline made for her mother in 1941 before the…
8. Oral history interview with Rivka Freed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.40 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0040
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Marseilles until liberation; returning to Paris to look for her family; her post-war life and experiencing depression; and her awards for partisan actions.…
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 …RG-50.120 #040 1 Tape Freed. Rivka 1.01.36.14 Born 1 July 1923 in Lodz Poland. 1938 came to France [Paris] with mother, brother and twin sister, to…
9. Watercolor painting of a line for wood and coal acquired by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.17
Date:
creation: 1943
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
10. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
11. Vichy France currency, 5 franc note, acquired by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.13
Date:
issue: 1943 June 02
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
12. Oral history interview with Eva Tichauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.26 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0026
Date:
interview: 1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…” of their identities was real; the separation of men and women, old and young, children from their parents; being separated from her 50-year-old mother…
13. Oral history interview with Susan Warsinger
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0142
Date:
interview: 2004 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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14. Framed portrait of a woman owned by an American internee
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.8 a-c
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… invaded Poland, and two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, officially starting World War II. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and…
15. Oral history interview with Nicole Long
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.45.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0474
Date:
interview: 2003 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … father…? A: My father was a Catholic. They met during the First World War. She was a – you know – bourgeois nurse. And they fell in love and married. And…
16. Oral history interview with Jacqueline Birn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0425
Date:
interview: 2013 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Mendels with two of her three children, Manuela and Jacqueline. The Mendels lived in Paris and life was quite normal until World War II began. This is a…
17. Oral history interview with Hadassah Carlebach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.29 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0029
Date:
interview: 2016 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Schneersohn (also spelled Schneerson and Chneerson), who was active in Jewish rescue activities before and during the war; the number of children that Rabbi…
18. 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
… very patriotic and continuing to work with the FTPF for this reason; how even after the liberation in August 1944 and at the end of the war (May 1945…
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 … there, without food or water. [Reine said that the family probably stayed together, but according to historical sources, the men and women were separated…
19. Oral history interview with Klára Ördögh Battancs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.15 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0015
Date:
interview: 2011 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…War and families.…
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 … primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. BJ: Nem is volt kint a neve. I: Mesélne még erről, hogy akkor járt evvel a- evvel a…
20. Oral history interview with Jacqueline Mendels Birn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0655
Date:
interview: 2018 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … period. Tell us what you know about why they moved and what it was like in those -- in that time right before the war began. >> Jacqueline Mendels Birn: I…