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1. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0504
Date:
interview: 2015 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1933; the discrimination of Jews in Germany; attending a German-Jewish boarding school in Sweden until the school was forced to close; returning to…
2. Oral history interview with Miron Kolodziejczak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0730
Date:
interview: 2013 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberated in May 1945; life in Poland after the war and his involvement in the anti-communist movement; moving in 1948 to Sweden, where he was granted…
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 … committee against the Communists. In '48 he and another guy escaped to Sweden. There they applied for political asylum which was granted. Soon they decided…
3. Oral history interview with Rivka Liebeskind
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0051.1 | RG Number: RG-50.308.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Denmark; and going by ferry to Sweden.…
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 … liberation, Rivka’s train, the Bernadotte transport, found itself in Denmark. They were sent to Copenhagen and from there by ferry to Sweden. http…
4. Oral history interview with Solomon Fox
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0322
Date:
interview: 1995 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… recover; the Red Cross taking him to Sweden on July 7, 1945 with his brother; reuniting with his pre-war girlfriend and marrying her; immigrating to the…
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 …(?) the body(?) and brought it to the grave. He had a grave dug and we helped him finish it. When my wife was once in Poland, I couldn't go, '46 from Sweden…
5. Oral history interview with Rose Warner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0247 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0058
Date:
interview: 1999 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Sweden and being adopted by a Swedish couple; the poetry she wrote after the war; reuniting with her father, brother, and husband in Poland; having more…
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 … of her daughter in a camp; her liberation by the American Red Cross; traveling to Denmark; being taken care of by the Danish people; going to Sweden…
6. Oral history interview with Stefan Wohl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0413 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0060
Date:
interview: 1997 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… January 1945; going back to Poland in the spring 1945; going to Sweden in the summer 1946; sailing to Brazil in October 1946; attending school and a…
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 … recovered January 1945 - Liberated by the Russians, found parents Spring 1945 - Went back to Poland Summer 1946 - Went to Sweden October 1, 1946 - Sailed to…
7. Oral history interview with Rivka Kooper (Rivka Liebeskind Kuper)
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.78 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0078
Date:
interview: 1992 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; moving to Sweden, where she met her second husband and worked with Zionist youth groups; how she became involved in the Haganah; going to Cyprus then to…
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 … others that she knew. 8.30.00.00 The journey from Copenhagen and what they did, until they got to Sweden. 8.41.47.12 In Sweden – DDT treatment, quarantine…
8. Shmuel Rosenbaum papers
1999.307.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 41
Document | Accession Number: 1999.307.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1957
… were liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. Shmuel was taken to Sweden to recuperate from tuberculosis and later was sent to a refugee transit…
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 … documenting Shmuel Rosenbaum and his family before World War II in Poland and Palestine and after the war in Sweden. Biographical materials include…
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9. Oral history interview with Edmund Potok
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.315 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0538
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russia; attending university in Kraków; marrying and moving to Huta, Poland; and eventually moving to Sweden.…
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 … a visa for Israel. He sought permission to go to Sweden, and was eventually allowed to do so. Edmund had to give up his property in Poland, but he and…
10. Oral history interview with Eva Brettler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.369 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0546
Date:
interview: 2008 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… time in Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation in Bergen-Belsen by the British Army; her time in an orphanage in Sweden post-war; her return to…
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 …. And probably my father was killed, too. I said, I’m going to live in the King’s castle in Sweden. I heard about the woman who took care of orphans in…
11. Oral history interview with Jan Nowak
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0304
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… agents to distribute the propaganda until the spring of 1943, when he was forced to escape Poland on a ship bound for Sweden; trying to convince the…
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 … the spring of '43. 630 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,410 In '43, I discovered the possibility 631 00:37:02,410 --> 00:37:09,678 to go to Sweden hidden in…
12. Hillel Storch papers
2017.526.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
… occupied Latvia in 1940, Storch fled to Stockholm. His wife Ania and daughter Eleonora rejoined him in May 1941 as part of an agent exchange between Sweden…
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 … materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle…
13. Oral history interview with Doris Rauch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1219 DUP | RG Number: RG-50.106.0015
Date:
interview: 1995 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… who provided food, care, and new clothing; living in Sweden for two years working as a secretary for the World Jewish Congress; living with two women…
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 …:00:37,290 that we are being sent to Sweden now. 1085 01:00:37,290 --> 01:00:42,460 And we couldn't quite believe it, but they said it. 1086 01:00:42…
14. Joshua (Szyja) Feldman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.614.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2000
bulk: 1945-1968
… Fluchtlingshilfe) paying for his care were unable to continue to support him, he and another patient, Fela Winter (circa 1912-1989), moved to Sweden and were married…
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 …, his postwar life with Fela Feldman in Sweden, and study notebooks in which he practiced German stenography, French, Hebrew, English, and engineering…
15. Berland family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.188.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1948
… in Łódź for several months with friends she had met in Auschwitz. In the spring of 1946, she left for Stockholm, Sweden, where her father sent funds to…
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 … Polish army, Łódź, Poland, September 1946. 17. Photograph of Jewish displaced persons at a wedding party in Stockholm, Sweden, circa 1946-1948. 18…
16. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0740
Date:
interview: 2008 January 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1933; the discrimination of Jews in Germany; attending a German-Jewish boarding school in Sweden until the school was forced to close; returning to…
17. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0433
Date:
interview: 2013 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1933; the discrimination of Jews in Germany; attending a German-Jewish boarding school in Sweden until the school was forced to close; returning to…
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 … 1938, you were sent to boarding school in Sweden. Tell us a little bit about that. Why? >> Bob Behr: Ok. Number one, the bad news. My parents got…
18. Oral history interview with Agnes Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.4.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0216
Date:
interview: 2014 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hitler was dead and the war was over; going to Denmark and then to Sweden; staying in a hospital; going to a boarding school in Helsingborg, Sweden…
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 … were some girls, and I think 125 00:09:14,070 --> 00:09:18,180 when they came to Sweden, one beautiful one, 126 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:20,670 she got…
19. Bluma Krzepicka papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.190
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1947
… 60 lbs). She was taken to a hospital in Malmo, Sweden, to recuperate. In February 1949 she returned to Zduńska Wola and met Hersh Mendel Krzepicki…
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 …: blue ink inscription: “To my dear ones, during my stay in Sweden, your Blimka; Auntie!, do you recognize me on this picture? Västerås, December 7, 1946…
20. Oral history interview with Mendel Leben
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.13 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0013
Date:
interview: 2014 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… food; Buchenwald displaced persons camp, which was guided by American chaplain Herschel Schacter; resuming his studies in Lundsberg, Sweden, where he…