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1. Oral history interview with Robert Langer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.616.2 | RG Number: RG-50.264.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
2. Sirota family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.126
Date:
creation: 1939-1947
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.…
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 … issued Johann Sirota in Shanghai, China, June 1939. The card was issued by the Police Special City Government in Shanghai to Johann Sirota, a Jewish…
3. Oral history interview with Rose Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.377 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0377
Date:
interview: 1989 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … experienced: schoolmates called her “dirty little Jewish girl,” never having any gentile friends and expresses never feeling safe in Germany. She explains…
4. Oral history interview with Ursula Becher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … gentile students during the early 1930s until her transfer to a private Jewish school. After Kristallnacht, she sought refuge in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but…
5. Oral history interview with Eric Rosenon
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0087
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … years it was no more allowed the Jewish people could perform music, or be in the theater business, or be in the movie industry. So this was the first…
6. Oral history interview with Fredy K. Seidel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.517 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0517
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … SUBJECT HEADINGS World War 1939-1945 – Germany World War-1939-1945– Personal narrative, Jewish, Male Holocaust, 1933-1945--Psychological aspects Holocaust…
7. Oral history interview with Ilse Awin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.146 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0146
Date:
interview: 1999 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … 12 years old during a roundup of Jews with Polish passports. A Jewish organization intervened to secure her release, but other Polish families were…
8. Oral history interview with Ilse Awin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.145 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0145
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … attended public school until 1935, when the Nuremberg Laws forced Jewish students to leave and go to Jewish schools. Her father lost his business and…
9. Oral history interview with Leo Awin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.147 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0147
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … #: GC00033 Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 #53 Restrictions: None SUMMARY Leo Awin was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1919 into a traditional Jewish home. His…
10. Oral history interview with Al Buchler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.624 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0624
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
interview: 1898 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … it was after that that he could not attend his public school and switched to a Jewish school. He was always a very good student, and it was at this…
11. Oral history interview with Willie Berg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.165 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0165
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … describes being attacked in public school and later being forced to transfer to a Jewish school when he was 10. For their security, his parents arranged to…
12. Oral history interview with Ilse Steirman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.364 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0364
Date:
interview: 2001 February 12
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …,360 That was a public school. 51 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,960 Were there are many other Jewish students? 52 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,080 I really don…
13. Oral history interview with Inge Rosenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.872 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0872
Date:
interview: 1991 March 10
interview: 1991 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … talk to anyone and that made it rather uncomfortable. was the only Jewish kid in town which was kind of unusual think and as said before was completely…
14. Oral history interview with Ruth Callman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.670 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0670
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … fine and we had lots of friends. We did not live in a real Jewish area. There were very few Jewish people in our area. We lived in [PLACE NAME] with this…
15. Oral history interview with Gunther G. Rechnitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.352 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0352
Date:
interview: 1998 April 15
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … word generated with 3Play Media. It is not the primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Were they Jewish? Yes, they were Jewish…
16. Oral history interview with Else Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.440 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0440
Date:
interview: 1983 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … in an observant Jewish family. They lived in Breslau, Hamburg and Berlin, where Else attended a lyceum briefly. Due to antisemitism and her illnesses…
17. Oral history interview with Bruno Keith
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.335 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0335
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … expelled from this institution in 1933 for being Jewish. A Hitler Youth leader warned Bruno about Kristallnacht two nights prior; he experiences…
18. Oral history interview with Leo Lerner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.376 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0376
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … “Stateless” passport, he was ordered to leave Germany. In June 1939, financed by the Jewish community in Goeppingen, Leo sailed with his parents and sister on…
19. Anita Heller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.128
Date:
creation: 1939-1947
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.…
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 …) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Anita Heller Papers Inventory 1. Admission card to services in a Jewish Congregation, Shanghai, undated. 2…
20. Oral history interview with Alfred Brosan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.185 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0185
Date:
interview: 1991 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … difficulties arising from having to move the factory. Alfred reports that nevertheless, the Jewish community had a satisfactory relationship with the Japanese…
21. Oral history interview with Inge Schaffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.789 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0789
Date:
interview: 2003 July 15
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …, first I attended a public school close by. And then Jewish kids couldn't go there. Then I went to Prinzregentenstrasse. That was behind a temple, the…
22. Oral history interview with Lieselotte H. Fajardo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.225 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0225
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … describes in detail several incidents of being treated differently as a Jew and also noticing anti-Jewish propaganda in children’s magazines. She was forced…
23. Oral history interview with Hurst Sommer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.533 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0533
Date:
interview: 2002 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … six million Jews that they killed. So the man says to me, you must be a Jew. And I said, no, I'm not a Jew. I am Jewish. Yes, I am. And he said, well…
24. Oral history interview with Myra Davis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.205 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0205
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Restrictions: None SUMMARY Myra Davis, nee Miki Heller, was born July 12, 1936 in Kovno, Lithuania, the only child in an affluent Jewish family. Her parents were…
25. Oral history interview with Gunter Ullman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.651 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0651
Date:
interview: 1997 February 21
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … would have been 1935, maybe 1936. Because after that, for two years, I went to a Jewish school. 1935, I would say. So you went to an elementary school for…
26. Oral history interview with Warner J. Bergh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.166 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0166
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …, Walter Silberberg, and his step mother Elsa Miller Silberberg in the Bayerischen neighborhood of Berlin which had a Jewish population of fifty percent…
27. Oral history interview with Ann Abrams
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.388 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0388
Date:
interview: 2001 October 03
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … boyfriend dumped her because she was Jewish. She also remembers Kristallnacht, when the Germans made her father sign over his practice to the government. He…
28. Oral history interview with Ellen Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.740 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0740
Date:
interview: 1990 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … to a Jewish school, and could not play tennis, couldn't go swimming, could not go to the opera anymore, all the things we used to do. What kind of…
29. Oral history interview with Willie Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.45 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0045
Date:
interview: 1983 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … in the Japanese district, the support from the Joint Distribution Committee and the Russian Jewish community for a hospital, kosher soup kitchen and…
30. Oral history interview with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.176.2 | RG Number: RG-50.928.0002
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
31. Oral history interview with Inge Peebles
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.780 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0780
Date:
interview: 2003 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … mean, a lot of steps to go up to it. It was a big building. And I remember that I got a girlfriend right away. Her name was Liesl Lotte. Jewish, not…
32. Oral history interview with Leah Farber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1063 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1063
Date:
interview: 1991 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … learned about Jewish émigrés to Shanghai, and she and her fiancé decided to get married and then leave Vienna. The couple left Vienna in 1939, and on…
33. Oral history interview with Walter Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.816 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0816
Date:
interview: 1990 May 15
interview: 1990 June 14
interview: 1990 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Wiesbaden, a Jewish factory that made medical equipment. I did that until November the https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
34. Oral history interview with Adda Gerstel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.20 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0020
Date:
interview: 1999 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …? Yeah. I went to private school. Jewish or-- No. No. I didn't like at first. The first day I said to my mother if I had known what's that, I never would…
35. Oral history interview with Martin Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.85 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0085
Date:
interview: 1988 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … have a Jewish education? Yes. Because we didn't live in the town itself, the hazzan came at first, and he tutored me a couple of hours, two hours, once a…
36. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Indexing terms Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jewish refugees – Germany. Jewish refugees – China – Shanghai. Germany – Emigration and…
37. Oral history interview with Eva Gottheiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.691 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0691
Date:
interview: 1993 March 04
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 …. Yes. Wasn't it Jewish or Yiddish? https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
38. Oral history interview with Anni Beckerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.595 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0595
Date:
interview: 2003 June 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … stationary store, as well as renting out their bathtub. They lived in one room until they moved to a small house with other refugees. She attended the Jewish…
39. Oral history interview with Susan Flusser Tausig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.153.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0965
Date:
interview: 2018 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Christened and all. Were you christened? Yes, yes. Then is one of your parents not Jewish? Correct. Which one? My mother. What was her name? https…
40. Oral history interview with Gary Bigus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.303 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0303
Date:
interview: 1998 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … neighborhood in Berlin as being middle class and mostly Jewish. He talks about the clothing shop his father owned and ran. He describes family vacations he went…
41. Oral history interview with Werner Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.83 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0083
Date:
interview: 1992 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … affiliation, occupation or that of the family, experience, and any experience with the non-Jewish community? WG: I was born in Berlin in 1927, and I lived there…
42. Oral history interview with Herbert Broh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.102 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0102
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … company, as my memory recollects. The name was Kohls, K-O-H-L-S, and also a Jewish firm. And like I say, my dad was a salesman for those people…
43. Oral history interview with Joseph P. Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.376 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0376
Date:
interview: 1998 February 04
interview: 1998 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … the neighbors to see me 111 00:06:57,530 --> 00:07:01,820 since I was obvious Jewish, having no Nazi paraphernalia 112 00:07:01,820 --> 00:07:06,470 and…
44. Oral history interview with Evelyn Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.4 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0004
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China.…
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 … years in China: from 1939 – 1949 and she is still in touch with some of the Jewish refugees she met there. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
45. Oral history interview with Eva Angress
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.390 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0390
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … important. So was considered the good little girl the good student and things went along all right. had non-Jewish friends had Jewish friends. knew everybody…
46. Oral history interview with Felicia Broh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.6 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0006
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … name, including your Jewish name if it is different. My legal name is Felicia Broh, and my Jewish name is Faigel Broh, if you mean the Hebrew. Yes, that…
47. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.229 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0229
Date:
interview: 1995 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
48. Oral history interview with Hans J. Arons
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.658 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0658
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Jewish young people outside the camp, with a guard, to do gardening work. And then after that, we finished it. I went into the potato kitchen to peel…
49. Oral history interview with Lorie Bellak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.300 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0300
Date:
interview: 1998 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China.…
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 …. And there was no Jewish school, and Jews weren't allowed to go to school anymore. What year was that? That was 1937. Actually early 1938, and we weren…
50. Oral history interview with Erna Gruschka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.766 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0766
Date:
interview: 2003 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.…
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 … Jewish community in your town? I'm not very sure, but I've met a lot of people who are from there. I think it was quite big, yeah. We had a synagogue. Yeah…