The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.
… in a church steeple to avoid capture; crossing the border into Switzerland on May 20, 1944 and going into an internment camp; staying with one of his…
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… on summer vacations either to the seashore or the North Sea or travelling to Switzerland. We lived well. No question about that. We had a villa at…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.20 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0020
Date:
interview: 1988 December 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; going to tuberculosis hospitals in France and Switzerland; her four-year recovery from bone tuberculosis; receiving assistance from various Jewish…
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… they realize that they have a very good place in Switzerland, a village, where all they had was bone TB. And this is how I got from France to Switzerland…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.14 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0014
Date:
interview: 1981 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his mother; going back to university and getting married; working for a university in Prague, Czech Republic; gaining political asylum in Switzerland…
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… escaped to Switzerland with his wife and two kids. (son and daughter) 2:43:00 Granted political asylum in Switzerland and he became a management consultant…
…, Switzerland to show his private stamp collection at an international stamp exhibit. A client, Galeazzo Ciano, was son-in-law to Benito Mussolini and warned…
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…, uncles, and family friends to Paula, her sister Alice and her brother Walter while they were living in Switzerland in 1938‐1939. Also included are 4…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.3 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0238
Date:
interview: 2015 January
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with Steven to stay with relatives; her parents coming two months later; flying to Zurich, Switzerland and then to Genoa, Italy in January 1939; sailing…
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… apartment with a terrace in the back, a courtyard. It was very nice. Q: You’re on the plane. You’re landing in Switzerland you said and your friends greet you…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.145.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0267
Date:
interview: 2018 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… seeing patients; publishing two books on using statistics in studying mental hygiene; moving in 1967 to Geneva, Switzerland to work for the World Health…
… Russian army during WWI; his family being poor after the war; moving to Switzerland, where he earned his medical degree at the University of Bern in 1925…
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… difficulty I came to Switzerland. I was accepted to University of Bern in 1919. Graduated as doctor of medicine from faculty of Bern in 1925. Served as…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.264.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0262
Date:
interview: 2016 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to a Paris military hospital; having to leave because he had tuberculosis; being taken by the Red Cross to a sanitarium in Davos, Switzerland, where he…
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… was in Switzerland where 1721 01:31:37,180 --> 01:31:40,113 you had the newspapers, and you had radio, 1722 01:31:40,113 --> 01:31:41…
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… political interests. We also liked winter sports, and he took a party of children to winter sports every year in Switzerland, and I accompanied him which had…
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