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1. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2015.541.2
…Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee…
2. Tersch family papers
2013.411.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…. Desperate to leave Vienna and immigrate to the United States, Tersch reached out to various organizations. Raymond E. Law (b. 12/11/1894), the president of…
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 …1 TERSCH FAMILY PAPERS, 1939 2013.411.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel…
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3. Ella Spiegler papers
2016.323.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2016.323.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
… American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, to sponsor fifty Jewish children from Vienna for immigration to the United States, they applied to have their…
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 …1 ELLA SPIEGLER PAPERS, 1929‐1950 2016.323.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
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4. Fred Lubcher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.165.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2018
bulk: 1932-1948
… Vienna, and Benny in the United States. After the German annexation of Austria in 1938, Jacob began to have difficulties with his business, including the…
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5. Robert Kaldeck papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.125.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1984
… allow the Austrians to go to Havana, Cuba. Robert remained in Cuba from 16 February 1939 until 12 September 1939 when he immigrated to the United States…
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 …ROBERT KALDECK PAPERS, 1929-1984 2018.125.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
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6. Robert Treuer family papers
1999.A.0282 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0282
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1997
… family immigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in Ohio.…
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 …ROBERT TREUER FAMILY PAPERS, 1936‐1997 1999.A.0282 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
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7. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… 1938. They survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and later immigrated to the United States. Ignatz Langer (1893-1960) was born on 22 April 1893 in Lwów…
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 …1 LANGER FAMILY PAPERS, 1906-2009 2017.616.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
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8. Elfriede Toch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.243.3
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1968
… for immigration to the United States, and determined to enroll their children. Paul was older than the cut-off age, but Elfriede was accepted and joined…
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 …ELFRIEDE TOCH COLLECTION, 1925-1968 2016.243.3 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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9. Kleinfeld family papers
2018.640.1 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2018.640.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1963
… school in Vienna. The family made plans to emigrate and Isidore applied for visas for the United States with the help of relatives already there. During…
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 …1 KLEINFELD FAMILY PAPERS, 1908-1963 2018.640.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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10. Erwin Schattner family papers
2015.595.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2015.595.2
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1998
bulk: 1920-1948
… England until May 1940, when they immigrated to the United States, leaving Liverpool on the S.S. Samaria, and rejoining Schattner's brother, Marcus Schatner…
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 … 1 ERWIN SCHATTNER FAMILY PAPERS, 1914-1998 (bulk, 1920-1948) 2015.595.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
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11. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
… apprenticed in a drugstore in Stanisławow, and around 1907 came to the United States and worked for a pharmaceutical firm in Rochester, New York. By 1913 he…
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 …RICHARD SCHIFTER FAMILY PAPERS, 1909-1994 (bulk, 1939-1948) 2016.502.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
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12. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
… Paris to be reunited with Aron. Aron planned to immigrate to the United States with the help of relatives in the U.S., and then bring his family over. In…
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 …WEIDHORN FAMILY PAPERS, circa 1920-2006 2022.29.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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13. Ernest Braun papers
2017.649.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2017.649.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-circa 2005
bulk: 1940-circa 1954
… to the United States and lived at Fort Ontario, a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. He married Hertha Dershovitz in 1947 and they moved to Portland…
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 …1 ERNEST BRAUN PAPERS, 1929-circa 2005 2017.649.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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14. Bernhard Wiesenfeld papers
2015.602.1 Box 3 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1946
… kept in the Kitchener refugee camp in Richborough, Kent from June-August 1939. He immigrated to the United States in 1940, and settled in Queens, New…
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 …1 BERNHARD WIESENFELD PAPERS, 1904-CIRCA 2015 2015.602.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
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15. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… and had a son, Peter (1947-). His business failed, and by 1949 they had moved to Vienna, Austria. They immigrated to the United States in 1951 aboard…
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 …1 BLEIER AND WEISZ FAMILES PAPERS, CIRCA 1898-2005 2016.162.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
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16. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… New York. They arrived in the United States in February and settled in Indiana. Olga Weiss soon moved to Prague, was transported to Theresienstadt on…
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 …JOSEPH AND MARGARET WEISS FAMILY PAPERS, 1934-1978 1998.A.0297 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
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17. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… to Bolivia, but the papers turned out to be invalid. Eventually he received an affidavit to come to the United States from a distant cousin, Arthur…
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 …FELLNER FAMILY PAPERS, 1865-circa 2014 2015.563.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
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18. Rosa Scholder letter
1999.A.0139 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0139
Date:
1939 October 08
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
19. Oral history interview with George Erhlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.45 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0045
Date:
interview: 1996 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.…
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 … July 18th, 1928, in Vienna, Austria. Came to the United States in June 1938, about four months after the Germans marched into Austria. That makes it…
20. Ignaz Ferber papers
1988.87 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.87 | RG Number: RG-10.262
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1938
… hospital and began proceedings to immigrate to the United States. He received his visa and left Vienna for the U.S. on 12 October 1938. His sister Johanna…
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 …1 IGNAZ FERBER PAPERS, 1931-1938 1988.87 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel…
21. Dr. Arthur Leser collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1947
… University of Vienna. He immigrated to England and Scotland in 1938 and to the United States later that year.…
22. Leopoldine and Hermann Rintel passports
Document | Accession Number: 2017.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
23. Oral history interview with Gustav J. Beck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.156 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0156
Date:
interview: 1997 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
24. Oral history interview with Siegmund Levarie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.474.17 | RG Number: RG-50.763.0017
Date:
interview: 2000
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carl S. Ehrlich…
25. Oral history interview with Eric Reisman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.472 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0472
Date:
interview: 1992 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
26. Oral history interview with Robert Langer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.364 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0364
Date:
interview: 1992 August 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
27. Signed testimony of Lilly Rattner Shirey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.9.3 | RG Number: RG-50.609.0003
Date:
interview: 2005
Subtitle:
Exodus: A Deaf Family Escapes the Holocaust
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology…
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 … already emigrated to the United States prior to the annexation of Austria. He was able to supply the family with affidavits and other important documents. A…
28. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
29. 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: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Kitchener DP camp in England. Meanwhile, Georg searched for people in the United States with the same last name and contacted several people in New…
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 …GEORG AND MARGARETHE WEISS FAMILY PAPERS, 1938-1940 AND UNDATED 1995.49.9 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
30. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
… United States in 1947.…
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 …RUTH B. MANDEL PAPERS, 1937‐1947 1989.55.11 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC…
31. Sig Feiger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.343.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
… for the United States in March 1939. Their father left for London on a work permit that October; he was interned for several months on the Isle of Man…
32. Hugo Zulawski papers
2015.582. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.582.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1965
… 1939, Hugo sailed for the United States as part of a transport of "50 children" organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. After spending the summer at the…
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 …1 HUGO ZULAWSKI PAPERS, 1910-1965 2015.582.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
33. Horringer family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2014.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1939
… Horinger through her father, Nathan Horringer, who had emigrated to the United States decades earlier, but had returned on vacation to Europe in the late…
34. Oral history interview with Max Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.46 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0046
Date:
interview: 1999 July 21
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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 … and went to the United States. You were a movie lawyer? No. No. What I did there was signing up movies for certain films and negotiating their rental…
35. Oral testimony of Gertrude Weinfeld Bettelheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.406.2 | RG Number: RG-50.594.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Naomi Pena…
36. Oral history interview with Peter Schur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.54.1 | RG Number: RG-90.182.0001
Date:
interview: 2019 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Schur…
37. Reunion of Herta Baitch and Stella Bruckenstein Bengel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.112.11 | RG Number: RG-50.070.0001
Date:
Production: 2008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Herta Griffel Baitch, in memory of her parents, Wolf Griffel and Beila Bertha Nagel…
38. Oral history interview with Fred Blau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.8 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0008
Date:
interview: 1988 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Northern Arizona University as part of a project to document the testimonies of Holocaust survivors in the Phoenix, AZ area. The United States…
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 … famous, like Pavaroti now in the United States. He father was not, but his mother or his grandmother was Jewish, so they kill him, his apartment was empty…
39. Oral history interview with John Kaufmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.413 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0413
Date:
interview: 1998 April 08
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…
40. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… 30, 1899 in Podhajce, Poland. He had four sisters and many of his immediate family, including his mother, Rebecca, immigrated to the United States in…
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 …FRED LIFSCHUTZ PAPERS, approximately 1910-1975 2015.541.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
41. Butzke family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.350.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
… United States. Hans changed his name to John and attended the City University of New York and later served in the United States Marine Corps, fighting in…
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 …BUTZKE FAMILY PAPERS, 1899‐1989, BULK 1936‐1944 2014.350.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
42. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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 …1 HABER FAMILY PAPERS, 1897-CIRCA 1990 2015.236.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
43. Louis Satvsky collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.129
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1941
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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 …LOUIS SATVSKY COLLECTION, circa 1930-1941 1995.129 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126…
44. Fritzi Klein Natko papers
2015.530.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2015.530.1
Date:
inclusive: 1901-2011
bulk: 1937-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Nazi expropriation plan. In the spring of 1939, Herbert Klein went on a Kindertransport to England, and Fritzi was sent to the United States as…
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 …FRITZI KLEIN NATKO PAPERS, 1901-2011 2015.530.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024…
45. Gershon Yelin papers
2018.394.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2018.394.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1962
… the war, he studied medicine in Vienna, Austria and became a psychiatrist. He married Carolyn Cohen and immigrated to the United States in 1962.…
46. Theodore Mattern family papers
2016.306.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2016.306.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1999
bulk: 1903-1941
…, Leontine Loewy, left Austria in early 1939, arriving in Shanghai in March. Josef and Olga were able to secure visas to come to the United States, and they…
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 …1 THEODORE MATTERN FAMILY PAPERS, 1924‐1999 2016.306.1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
47. Berg family papers
2015.312.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2015.312.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1948
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
48. Henry Weil family papers
1995.A.0477.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0477.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1955
…, who guaranteed to give Hugo work upon arrival to the U.S. Hugo contacted Marishka’s brother Joseph in the United States who also assisted him in…
49. Oral history interview with Paul F. Halpern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.358 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0602
Date:
interview: 2010 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Interview with Paul Halpern October 17, 2010 RG-50.030*0602 http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
50. Oral history interview with Alice Boddy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.622 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0622
Date:
interview: 1990 August 22
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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 …. and Mrs. Lewis. She remained there until February 1940 when arrangements were made for her to join a children’s transport to the United States. Alice…