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1. Oral history interview with Howard Bowman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0265
Date:
interview: 2017 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Belgium.…
2. Navy openwork jacket with belt made by a German Jewish woman
2002.474.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.2 a-b
Date:
creation: 1936-1937
… could not get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled…
3. Oral history interview with Doucy, J. Rey, Troelet, Bloch, Gottschalk, and Doney
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.98.3 | RG Number: RG-50.967.0003
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Interviews with survivors of WWII in Belgium.…
4. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Alternate Title:
Basel
… get visas. They sent 6 year old Dorit to Brussels, Belgium, to live with Gertrud’s sister, Anna Kaufman. She, her husband, and stepson had fled to…
5. Oral history interview with Anna Wajcblum Heilman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0258
Date:
interview: 1994 August 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation shortly after the evacuation of Auschwitz; and immigrating to Canada through Belgium after the war.…
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 … about food. And she was telling me the best ice cream in the world is in Belgium. That's good. It comes liberation time, repatriation, Marta says she…
6. Oral history interview with Joshka Schidlow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.552.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1000
Date:
interview: 2018 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from a religious family in Tarnow, Poland and moved with his three brothers to Germany then Belgium; his father’s fur store; his mother, Rosa Silberman…
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 … Poland and eventually married and had children2. The four brothers moved to Germany and finally to Belgium to make their fortune. Some of them became…
7. Owl head hand puppet made by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran
2017.213.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.213.7
Date:
creation: 1956-1957
… advisor for his family’s business. In 1935, in Brussels, Belgium, Albert married Anni Ilse Zobel (b. 1914) from Dresden. In December 1937, Albert immigrated…
8. Golden book and other Forty-Second US Rainbow Division memorabilia from the Rainbow Division archives
Document | Accession Number: 1988.101 | RG Number: RG-09.003.01
… the Belgian king, in Brussels, Belgium, in 1958. Copies of this book along with other Rainbow Division memorabilia were donated to USHMMA by the Rainbow…
9. Hena Evyatar papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.156.1
… the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, the Kohn family joined a wave of Belgian refugees who fled to France. While en route, however, they were…
10. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
11. Hebrew and German prayer book owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Publication | Accession Number: 2017.480.2
Date:
publication: 1885
emigration: 1938 September
Alternate Title:
Festgebete der Israeliten
Feast Prayers of the Israelites
… money to help them seek asylum in Belgium. Leo began his trip to the US, arriving in New York City on September 23, 1938. He secured affidavits so that…
12. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
…. 1933). He had a brother Adolf Konkowski (b. 1903) and a sister Sonja Linderman. Menachem immigrated to Brussels, Belgium, where he established a…
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 …: approximately 1900-1960 Accession number: 2012.473.1 Creator: Konkowski (Family : Brussels, Belgium) Additional creator: Blinbaum (Family : Brussels, Belgium…
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13. Renee Fritz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.432.1
Date:
creation: circa 1940-1945
… ghettos and camps, the extended family decided to flee Austria. Thirteen family members traveled, mostly on foot, in small groups from Vienna to Belgium…
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 … a lake or a river, while on a visit to her mother, from the convent where she was hiding, Belgium, circa 1940-1943. 2. Photograph of Renee Schwalb…
14. Charles Paul Kogel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.79.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1985
…Charles Paul Kogel (1910-2009) was born November 22, 1910 in Antwerp, Belgium to Chaim Kogel and Mariem Kornreiek Kogel. He had one sister, Lena, and…
15. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women
2017.480.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.6
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… to allow him into Belgium, where his wife and son later joined him. Fritz kept in contact with Leopold’s family, who had been smuggled into Belgium as…
16. Cream-colored textile with crocheted lace accents owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.13
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
17. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…. Herta had married Leo after his application was submitted, so she was not included on his visa. Fritz bribed guards to allow him into Belgium, where his…
18. Oral history interview with Hugo Langshur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.73.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0239
Date:
interview: 2015 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Prague, Czech Republic by himself which was traumatic as he had never been so far away on his own; traveling through Germany and Belgium; docking at Dover…
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 …. From Germany to Belgium and across to Dover, from Belgium we embarked . I don’t remember where I left from. Q: Do you remember feeling very lonely on the…
19. Oral history interview with Mayer Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.25 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0025
Date:
interview: 2015 November 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; discovering his brother had survived Auschwitz; reuniting with his brother in Belgium; immigrating to the United States in 1948 on the “SS Washington”; his…
20. Belgian window card for the movie “Pastor Hall” (1940)
2018.590.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.34
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 May
…Belgium…