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1. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 ….322.18 Creators: Stripounsky (Family : Antwerp, Belgium) Extent: 2.5 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 5 oversize folders, 1 book enclosure) Repository…
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2. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…, worked to resolve this emergency. As a result, Jewish aid organizations convinced four European governments, Belgium, Great Britain, France, and the…
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 …, 1939 voyage aboard the M.S. St. Louis, refuge in Belgium, internment in French concentration camps, refuge in Switzerland, and immigration to the United…
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3. Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0184 | RG Number: RG-20.019
Date:
1945 July 31
… the Very Holy Savior, in Brussels, Belgium. In the memoir Sister Marie-Aurelie describes how her convent cared for Jewish girls and hid them from the…
4. Jeannette Nadle papers
1995.A.0122.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0122.2
Date:
inclusive: 1947-1994
bulk: 1947-1948
…Jeannette Nadle (née Bertman) was born on October 10, 1931 in Brussels, Belgium. She had two older siblings, Marie and Nat. In 1940, after the…
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 …’s wartime experiences in Belgium, November 30, 1947; and a memoir written by Jeannette Nadle in 1994. The memoir describes Jeannette’s experiences as a hidden…
5. Ruth Szmarag papers
2002.404 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2002.404
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Belgium. Sigmond was arrested and sent to France where he was imprisoned in the Drancy internment camp. On August 19, 1942 Sigmond was sent to Auschwitz…
6. "Memoirs of my Life"
Document | Accession Number: 2012.395.1
Date:
inclusive: 1988
… birth. Shortly following his birth, however, the family moved once again, this time to Antwerp, Belgium. Following the outbreak of World War I, and the…
7. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942
1997.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0128
Date:
creation: 1997-1997
… invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and…
8. Morton Dannenbirsch letters
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0266 | RG Number: RG-10.110
… Belgium after the Nazi occupation and how he traced and found some Dutch Holocaust survivors, which his family knew, in a concentration camp near Groningen…
9. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
… the German invasion of Belgium, Eva and Erna fled to France but were forced to return to Antwerp. Erna’s husband, Benjamin Riemer, disappeared in a…
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 … the German invasion of Belgium, Eva and Erna fled to France but were forced to return to Antwerp. Erna’s husband, Benjamin Riemer, disappeared in a…
10. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
…Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape…
11. Abraham and Lilly Malnik collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.291.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 2008
bulk: 1935-1950
bulk: 1992-2008
… (Abe) (originally of Kovno, Lithuania) and Lilly (née Applebaum) Malnik (originally of Belgium) Includes wartime and post-war photographs from the…
12. Albert M. Sharon memoir
1995.A.0636 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0636
Date:
1990
…Albert M. Sharon (1924-1990) was born into a Jewish household in Warsaw, Poland before moving to Brussels, Belgium as a child. In 1940, when Albert…
13. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
…Edith Stein was born Edith Grunwald on 22 December 1935 in Antwerp, Belgium to Golde and Bernat Grunwald. Her parents married in 1934 in Antwerp. Her…
14. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
…Sam Kornhauser was born Isadore Kornhauser in Belgium in 1947 to Polish Holocaust survivors Stephen (Salomon) (1912-?) and Amalia (Ament) Kornhauser…
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 … Ament families who survived the Holocaust in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Belgium before immigrating to the United States and Brazil. Languages…
15. Esther Bergman memoir
1988.084 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1988.084 | RG Number: RG-02.013.01
Date:
undated: 
…Esther Bergman (née Stern) was born in Antwerp on 21 March 1935. After the German occupation of Belgium in 1940, her family fled to southern France…
16. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
… Grünberger Singer (1894‐1977). In 1938, his family left Austria for Belgium and stayed in Brussels until he and his father were encouraged to move to the…
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 …’s family in Germany, her departure via Kindertransport to England, Robert Singer’s family in Austria, his stay in the Merksplas internment camp in Belgium…
17. Nathan Chorowicz documents
Document | Accession Number: 2012.441.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
18. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
… August 1939 the family moved to Antwerp, Belgium. On 30 December 1939, Aron boarded the Henry Jasper and sailed to the United States using a business visa…
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 … United States with the help of relatives in the U.S., and then bring his family over. In August 1939 the family moved to Antwerp, Belgium. On 30 December…
19. Carl Lenneberg papers
2011.259.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.259.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1913-1975
bulk: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe they disembarked in Antwerp, Belgium and got an apartment in Brussels along with another shipmate, Fritz Buff…
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 … diary. After the ship was denied entry in Cuba and returned to Europe they disembarked in Antwerp, Belgium and got an apartment in Brussels along with…
20. Dolf and Cato Ringel papers
1993.123.10 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.123.10
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1989
…False certification--Belgium.…
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 … (Concentration camp) Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Netherlands‐‐Personal narratives Concentration camp inmates' writings‐‐Poland False certification‐‐Belgium…