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1. Stephanie Bujakowsky, a young girl who immigrated to France from Austria, stands on the porch of her home holding a teddy bear.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 29592
Date:
Circa 1938
…Stephanie Bujakowsky, a young girl who immigrated to France from Austria, stands on the porch of her home holding a teddy bear.…
2. Robert and Louise Brunner papers
2002.152 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.152
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1956
…Louise Brunner (1909-1992) was born in Vienna to Julius Koblitz and Agatha Delicat. Louise fled to France with her fiancée, Robert Brunner, in 1938…
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 … Koblitz’s efforts to flee to France, immigrate to the United States, and establish their life in America. The collection also includes correspondence…
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3. Oral history interview with Renee Newman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.863 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0863
Date:
interview: 1995 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… France; the constricted circumstances they lived under in France; and the family's immigration to the United States in 1940. Ms. Newman describes her…
4. Oral history interview with Ronica Strauss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.180 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0180
Date:
interview: 1990 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… to escape Vienna and go to France; her inability to enter France and subsequently being transported to Rivesaltes camp; obtaining release papers and…
5. Oral history interview with Eugene Fellner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0368.2 | RG Number: RG-50.501.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eugene Fellner describes his escape from Vienna, Austria to France in 1938; his experiences as a foreigner in France; his attempts to get a visa to…
6. 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…
7. Oral history interview with Maximilian Kowler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0055
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hospitalized after a bicycle accident; going with his parents went to Switzerland, where they were placed in a refugee camp; moving back to France after the war…
8. Oral history interview with Selma Steinmetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.20 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0020
Date:
interview: 1975 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Israel, and France…
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 … poor quality recording] In this interview conducted by Peter Wortsman, Selma Steinmetz describes her escape from Austria to France and her life in the…
9. Oral history interview with Eva Edmands
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0064
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Edmands, born on October 27, 1929 in Vienna, Austria, describes her early childhood; fleeing to Paris, France with her family in 1938; her father…
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 … decided that...or my parents decided we had to leave Vienna and that our only chance was to go to France and it was really a last minute decision and very…
10. Oral history interview with Gitta Sereny
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.43 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0483
Date:
interview: 2004 February 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gitta Sereny discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria; her mother's career as an actress and translator; her schooling in England and France in the…
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 … Austrian playwrights. Well, of course there were the -- Schnitzler and old ones, you know, but not modern ones. So all the plays came from France and England…
11. Oral history interview with Ernst Mehlman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.437 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0437
Date:
interview: 2000 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Anschluss; his deportation to a labor camp in Dietersberg, Austria in 1938; his escape to Switzerland that same year; moving to France to join his brother in…
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 … was successful. 372 00:18:23,355 --> 00:18:24,390 Your older? 373 00:18:24,390 --> 00:18:28,500 My older brother left, and he went to France. 374 00:18…
12. Oral history interview with Marcel Frydman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.26 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0026
Date:
interview: 2011 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marcel Frydman, born in France, describes being taken when he was four years old with his mother and sister to the Pithiviers internment camp, where…
13. Oral history interview with Sami Dorra
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.144 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0576
Date:
interview: 2010 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, 2010 in Paris, France. This interview is part of a series of USHMM-produced interviews about Jewish life in countries in North Africa during the…
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 … his cousin Moïse Lévy took bikes and headed towards the south of France. Moïse embarked for London from Bordeaux, his brother stopped at the town of…
14. 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
… France but getting arrested and sent to prison; escaping to Cologne, where her mother managed to attain three visas by giving up some of her jewelry…
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 … we could be reunited again. And then finally he got a visa from Prague to...uh...France, and he moved from...to France, hoping that that he would have…
15. 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…
16. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0332 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 July 31
interview: 1989 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… identification card; his arrest in December and then being sent to prison for nine months until he went to a forced labor camp in Septfonds, France; escaping from…
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 … Belgium or France or back to Germany. So the choice was very simple. I said, "Well, I have an aunt in Paris. Maybe I can make my way to Paris." So they…
17. Loschner and Klein families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.101.1
Date:
1939-1995
…Includes documents that illustrate the experiences of the Loschner and Klein families in Vienna and France during and after the war, including a…
18. Oral history interview with Ruth Keller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.41 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0041
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and later to France, where her father was interned first in Gurs and later in Les Miles (near Avignon); falling very sick with diphtheria after a…
19. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0110 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0016
Date:
interview: 1998 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France; his search for his family; how he supported himself during the war; his immigration to the United States from France after the war; his life in…
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 …02_0016 summary Leo Bretholz discusses escaping from a train headed to Drancy; his experience during liberation in Limoge, France; his search for his…
20. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers
1993.A.0005 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-10.079
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1947
bulk: 1938-1947
…, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
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 …, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz…
21. Max Vielgut papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.166.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2010
… Germans in 1940, and was later transferred to Saint-Cyprien camp in France. In November, he and the other prisoners were transferred to Gurs. In early…
22. Harry Burger, a Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1991.074 | RG Number: RG-02.027
Date:
1986
Subtitle:
memoir of the war - 1938-1945
… of Jews in Austria from 1933 to 1945, Harry Burger's flight into Italy and France, his imprisonment at the Sospel camp, and his participation in an…
23. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… May 1940, Sophie heard that the population from northern France was leaving in a panic because the Germans had broken through the Maginot Line, which…
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 … Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie…
24. Oral history interview with Friedel Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0032
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…" (Swiss Child Help) during World War II; going to Rivesaltes, a transit camp in France, in 1941 and 1942 with the Swiss Red Cross; living in the camp…
25. Oral history interview with Paula Birnbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.6 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0006
Date:
interview: 1986 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… occupation; her family hiring smugglers to take them to Belgium; going to France in early 1941 to Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseilles and her husband going to…
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 … from there to France early in 1941. The men were interned in a camp in the south of France. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
26. Oral history interview with Henry Allouche
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.2 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0002
Date:
interview: 2011 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Allouche, born on October 15, 1940 in Paris, France, describes his few memories of his life during the Holocaust; lacking any memory of his…
27. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
… to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt…
28. Oral history interview with David Stahl and Hannah Stahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1270 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1270
Date:
interview: 1984 September 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… faced and their decision to emigrate; the process of applying for visas and passports; their temporary move to Germany; their escape to Paris, France…
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 … no connection to get out. So we went to Germany. Germany 10 had borders with France Luxembourg -- 11 MR. STAHL A. Holland. 12 MRS. STAHL A. -- yes…
29. Oral history interview with Liane Reif-Lehrer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0347 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0186
Date:
interview: 1989 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ended up in France; getting a visa to immigrate to the United States after staying in France for two-and-a-half years; traveling through Spain and leaving…
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 … is...is of course well-known, historically. And the ship was turned back, and we went to France. And that's when I start to have much more coherent…
30. Oral history interview with Hedy Werner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1290 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1290
Date:
interview: 1986 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Anschluss in March 1938; going with her husband to Paris, France in September 1938; her experiences in Paris; the changes that occurred after the Nazi…
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 … he has to join the military company for the Czecho-Slovaks in France with the Allies. So when we are there he decided he will do that he will fight and…
31. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
…, and her boyfriend Maurice Rabinowicz (nicknamed Mischa) fled the German invasion of France by car from Châteaubriant to Toulouse via Nantes, Libourne…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
32. 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…
33. Oral history interview with Ernest Koenig
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0112
Date:
interview: 1991 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… childhood; attending university in Paris, France when the Germans annexed the Sudetenland in 1938; the expulsion of the Koenig family from Miroslav; returning…
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 … this time in France in order to study and I stayed in France in Paris until February 1939. We had no money. I was hungry, but really not starving but…
34. Oral history interview with Harold Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.11.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0220
Date:
interview: 2014 February 21
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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 … source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 383 00:17:41,820 --> 00:17:49,950 We got together and set off for England on our way to France…
35. Oral history interview with Eitan Ginat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.53 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0053
Date:
interview: 1993 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; eventually being caught and sent to a labor camp near Karlsruhe, Germany; the war's end and going to Paris, France to complete his PhD; and obtaining a…
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 …. Gives further details about his educational activities while a student; partly underground activities. France was totally occupied by Germany then. He was…
36. Oral history interview with Rosalia White
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.43 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0043
Date:
interview: 1983 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… emigrate; being imprisoned in several camps, including Gurs, Saint-Cyprien, and Rivesaltes; travelling through France, Brussels, and Israel after the war…
37. Oral history interview with Juana Torczyner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1148 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1148
Date:
interview: 2005 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… escape to Switzerland with her fiancé in August 1939; their difficult journey through France and Spain to a ship that carried them to Cuba; her experiences…
38. 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…
39. Oral history interview with Bernard Feiler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.17 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0017
Date:
interview: 1980 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; leaving Poland after the Kielce pogrom in 1946; traveling through Czechoslovakia to Vienna, Austria; going to Paris, France; deciding to go to Australia and…
40. Oral testimony of Marie-Brunette Spire
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.476.13 | RG Number: RG-50.904.0013
Date:
interview: 2015 March 08
Alternate Title:
"Andre Spire, French Jewish poet and Zionist Activist"
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marie-Brunette Spire describes the life of André Spire, who was born in 1868 and grew up in Lorraine, France; Spire’s studies of literature, law, and…
41. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
…Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes (France)…
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 … the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his timely escape before coming to trial for treason in post-war France…
42. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… 1938, and in November 1938 Leopold left Austria for Belgium. Charles and his mother fled to France in December 1938. They were arrested in Strasbourg…
43. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… for two months, so they planned to escape to France. They were aided by a Jewish store owner, Ettore Bassi, who smuggled other Jews across the border…
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 … and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Languages: German, English, Italian…
44. 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…
45. Oral history interview with Friedrich Hillman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.65 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0065
Date:
interview: 1991 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Perpignan, France in May 1940 and escaping; trying to join the Foreign Legion and cross into Spain; being sent to Drancy and then Auschwitz; going to Gogolin…
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 … France, through Luxembourg, and later brought his parents over as well. When France was taken by the Germans tried to escape to Spain and was returned. In…
46. Oral history interview with Joseph Sucher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.87.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0225
Date:
interview: 2014 July 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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 … couldn't get out. We had to get visas to go somewhere. And my father eventually got his transit visas through France and Portugal. But it was almost two…
47. Oral history interview with Liane Reif-Lehrer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.108 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0108
Date:
interview: 1992 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… began in 1933, resulting in her father having to close his practice in 1938; her father’s suicide; her memories of Kristallnacht; escaping to France with…
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 …,700 --> 00:39:09,300 and then we were sent back to Europe. 750 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:11,220 And we went to France, and that's 751 00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:14…
48. Camillo Adler papers
2009.403.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2009.403.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Anthony, b. 1908) and one sister, Golda (b. 1903?). Camillo received his law degree in Vienna, but was unable to find work there and moved to Lyon, France…
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 … translation, is an autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment in the French Foreign…
49. Oral history interview with Herbert Finder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19
interview: 1987 March 19
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… American visas in April 1940 but lacking the funds to travel and being trapped by the German invasion; his father being sent to a camp near Toulouse, France…
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 … meantime, on May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded Belgium, Holland, and France. So that’s why we got caught up in that dilemma. NL: You were saying that you learned…
50. Oral history interview with Marianne Liebermann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.44 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0163
Date:
interview: 2004 January 09
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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 … Cherbourg, France in September of 1938, where they transferred to a ship, the Europa, which took them to America. They arrived in New York on October 3, 1938…