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1. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation
Document | Accession Number: 2013.108 | RG Number: RG-22.040
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Refugees, Russian.…
2. Selected records from the State Archives of the Penza Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII
Document | Accession Number: 2013.9 | RG Number: RG-22.038
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Refugees, Russian.…
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 …‐58‐13. Head of department of use: Meshcheryakova, Nadezhda Yevgenyevna. Tel.: 64‐55‐33. Historical background In the summer 1941, refugees…
3. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager
2006.479.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.3
Date:
use: 1947-1951
…Jewish refugees--Austria--Biography.…
4. Oral history interview with Birgit Blideman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.1 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0001
Date:
interview: 2017 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish refugees through the Jewish Union and the Jewish student club; the Jewish social activities in the city; survivors arriving on white buses after the…
5. Oral history interview with Joseph Levine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.449.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0128
Date:
interview: 1990 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, Russian--United States.…
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 … synagogues which were filled with refugees and what few belongings they had, and my mother find a relative and we moved into a crowded, small apartment where…
6. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 193R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1059 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1059
Date:
interview: 2011 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Russian…
7. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--Brazil.…
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 … as a coal mine worker, and we got permission to stay because he was a political refugee. Could we ask you, what did your father do in Russia? In Russia…
8. Oral history interview with Ljubov N. Bordunova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.14 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0014
Date:
interview: 2010 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Russian Witnesses Documentation Project…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Interview Russian Witnesses Documentation Project https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
9. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers
1993.124.19 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.124.19
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1988
…Sonja Schulmann Schwartz was born in 1927 in Marburg, Germany, to Russian‐born Hirsch (Harry) Schulmann (b. 1893) and Frieda Lilienstern Schulmann…
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 … Sonja. Languages: German, English, Russian Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please…
10. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 215R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1080 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1080
Date:
interview: 2011 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Russian…
11. Oral history interview with Miriam Hoffman
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.2139
Date:
Recorded: 1999 October 15
…Jewish refugees.…
12. Handmade Israeli flag made by a Polish Jewish girl in a DP camp to celebrate statehood
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.2
Date:
creation: 1947 November 29
… retreating German soldiers made a stand nearby against the advancing Russians. Asher, Berl, and Yidl decided to leave the bunker. They crossed the road to a…
13. Oral history interview with George Dynin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.398.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0846
Date:
interview: 2015 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… both Polish and Russian at home; his father’s emigration with his parents from Russia in 1917; his father’s textile business, which was successful and…
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 … home with your parents? At home? At home, we had actually two languages. The parents spoke between themselves in Russian, and sometimes in Polish. But…
14. Oral history interview with Eva Reed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.29 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0029
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… siblings; having to move to Warsaw, Poland after World War I due to a Russian order; being educated at the gymnasium and completing dental school; marrying a…
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 … taken in by the Russian-organized community center for refugees. They were assigned one room for the three of them. They did not think about food and the…
15. Oral history interview with Semyon Kolegayev
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.17 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0017
Date:
interview: 2010 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Russian Witnesses Documentation Project…
16. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 224R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1089 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1089
Date:
interview: 2011 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Russian…
17. Oral history interview with Hadassah Carlebach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.29 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0029
Date:
interview: 2016 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family’s small apartment; hiding from the Russian police (her father was arrested 16 times); how those in hiding sometimes danced and sang to transcend…
18. Michal Salomonczyk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.167.2
Date:
creation: 1925-1946
…Russian…
19. Oral history interview with Helen Fagin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.4 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, then to a camp complex in Bratislava (Slovakia), and then to Austria; going to the American zone from the Russian zone; pretending to be Jewish refugees…
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 … Austria. 112 00:08:51,870 --> 00:08:55,170 The object of our journey was to go out 113 00:08:55,170 --> 00:09:01,620 of the Russian occupation zone, leave…
20. Registration cards of Jewish refugees in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during WWII
Document | Accession Number: 2007.133 | RG Number: RG-75.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1942
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Registration cards of Jewish refugees in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during WWII…
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 … last names of refugees. Language: Russian Preferred Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Divisions…
21. Oral history interview with Eva Rogazinsky Sommer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.69 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0069
Date:
interview: 2011 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during the Bolshevik Revolution; the vestments of the refugees; receiving help from the Russian Jews; the camps built for refugees; the conditions…
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 ….) She describes the vestments of the refugees. Those Russians helped the newly arrived. They were helped by the “500 Jews from Baghdad”. These had a…
22. Selected records from the State Archives of the Akmolinsk Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR
Document | Accession Number: 2015.346.1 | RG Number: RG-74.005
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Russian…
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 … Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Hebrew, German Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, and is available on the museum’s internal…
23. Glavnoe Pereselncheskoe Upravlenie pri Sovete Ministrov RSFSR (Fond A-327)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.18 | RG Number: RG-22.027M
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1956
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Main Resettlement Administration was established on February 12, 1942 as the main administrative body of the Russian Federation responsible for the…
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 …--Evacuation of civilians--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945—Refugees--Soviet Union--History. Russians -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Registers. World…
24. American Joint Distribution Committee booklet on Hanukkah used by a Polish Jewish teenager
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947-1951
Title:
! מוֹעֲדיק לְשִׂמְחָה
Alternate Title:
Happy Holidays!
…Jewish refugees--Austria--Biography.…
25. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 194R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1060 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1060
Date:
interview: 2011 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germans Jewish refugees; the German occupation of Rostov Oblast; the Polizei forcing Jews to leave the town on foot; the murder of Russians for the killing…
26. Oral history interview with Raisa Kurganova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.11 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0011
Date:
interview: 2010 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Russian Witnesses Documentation Project…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Interview Russian Witnesses Documentation Project https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
27. Oral history interview with Georges Isserlis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.296.1 | RG Number: RG-50.737.0001
Date:
interview: 2012 March 29
interview: 2012 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; living in relative safety under Italian rule in Antibes, France until 1942; the growing number of Jewish refugees in southern France; actively…
28. Oral history interview with Joe Friedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0481 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0380
Date:
interview: 1996 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in American-occupied Bavaria; working with the Jewish underground to get Jews across the border from the Russian zone into the American zone of Germany…
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 … would give them. Then there was the language barrier. Some spoke Russian, some spoke Polish, some Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonians, Latvian. They came…
29. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 195R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1061 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1061
Date:
interview: 2011 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Russian…
30. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 65R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1329 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1329
Date:
interview: 2009 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Russian…
31. 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
… organization in Shanghai; the Russian Jews in Shanghai; receiving letters from family in Europe; Jewish life in Shanghai; her son attending the Kadoorie School…
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 … Shanghai, yes. And it was called-- give me the name again. It was a committee. It was a Jewish committee built mostly from Russian Jewish, Jewish people. The…
32. Portrait of Liza (nee Ziegelman) Eisman with her daughter Raisa and husband either shortly before or after they fled to Uzbekistan.,
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 48893
Date:
Circa 1941 - 1942
…JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
33. Avraham Sutzkever with Russian Jewish poet and playwright Peretz Markish.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64912
Date:
April 1944
…Avraham Sutzkever with Russian Jewish poet and playwright Peretz Markish.…
34. The Rafes family poses outside their home in the Ural Mountains where they were evacuated to during the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60836
Date:
1941 - 1946
…JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
35. The Rafes family poses outside their home in the Ural Mountains where they were evacuated to during the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60834
Date:
1941 - 1946
…JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
36. The Rafes family poses outside their home in the Ural Mountains where they were evacuated to during the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60835
Date:
1941 - 1946
…JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
37. Marc Chagall painting in his studio in southern France.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 10116
Date:
Circa 1940
…Marc Chagall (formerly Moshe Segal, 1887-1985), Russian Jewish painter. Chagall was born into a large, poor hasidic family in Liozno, Vitebsk. His…
38. Portrait of four Jewish writers and activists.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64906
Date:
Circa 1946
… deported with other Jews from the war zone by the Russian authorities, and settled in Omsk, Siberia. After his father’s death there, his mother moved the…
39. Group portrait of children, both Russian and Jewish, in a school in a small village near Irkutz.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 69308
Date:
1941 May 14
…Group portrait of children, both Russian and Jewish, in a school in a small village near Irkutz.…
40. Portrait of the Ponevejsky family in Shanghai.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64207
Date:
1940
…, renting a building on Yamamoto-Dori Street that housed a synagogue and community center. In 1940 and 1941, over two thousand Polish Jewish refugees arrived…
41. Aaron Yermus and his classmate Moshe Kristol. The two attended a Russian, Polish school in Kzyl-Orda, Khazakstan during the war.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89334
Date:
1945
…Aaron Yermus and his classmate Moshe Kristol. The two attended a Russian, Polish school in Kzyl-Orda, Khazakstan during the war.…
42. Group portrait of children, many of whom are Polish Jewish refugees, in a classroom in Andyzan, Uzbekistan.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18095
Date:
May 1945
…Group portrait of children, many of whom are Polish Jewish refugees, in a classroom in Andyzan, Uzbekistan.…
43. Abram and Estera (Ajzen) Lewin sit outside a wooden cabin in Gorky.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25529
Date:
1945
…REFUGEES (JEWISH)…
44. Group portrait of four young Jewish men in Gorky.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25517
Date:
1945
…SOLDIERS/MILITARY (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
45. Portrait of Deborah-Miriam Dobrysh, her son Avi, and her sister-in-law Ilse Reisberg, taken during their evacuation to central Asia.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 01012
Date:
Circa 1942
…JEWS (RUSSIAN/SOVIET)…
46. Group portrait of young Jewish men and women in Bukhara.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 25245
Date:
1945 October 13
… with other Jewish refugees to a remote Soviet settlement called Wiatka on the Pinega River in Archangel. There the refugees built themselves a makeshift…
47. A group of Jewish teenagers pose wearing costumes [possibly for a Hannukah party].
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60267
Date:
Circa 1935
… and fur trade. Lea Mesherowaky was born in Odessa, but fled with her family following the Russian Revolution. They went first to Zopot near the Baltic…
48. Jewish refugees who had fled to Bukhara during the war, gather for a general meeting on the day after VE Day.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 21178
Date:
1945 May 09
…Jewish refugees who had fled to Bukhara during the war, gather for a general meeting on the day after VE Day.…
49. Varian Fry (left) views a Chagall painting outside the artist's home in Gordes.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 10125
Date:
1941
…Marc Chagall (formerly Moshe Segal, 1887-1985), Russian Jewish painter. Chagall was born into a large, poor hasidic family in Liozno, Vitebsk. His…
50. A young Jewish woman sits reading a book under a hanging portrait of Theodor Herzl. The table is decorated with a Jewish flag and a Hanukkah menorah.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 60253
Date:
Circa 1925
… and fur trade. Lea Mesherowaky was born in Odessa, but fled with her family following the Russian Revolution. They went first to Zopot near the Baltic…