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1. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…. In 1941 Jack went into hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France and later obtained false papers to enter Switzerland. Jack immigrated to the United…
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 … into hiding in Le Chambon-sur- Lignon, France and later obtained false papers to enter Switzerland. Jack immigrated to the United States in 1946 where he…
2. Oral history interview with Helene Steinlauf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.246 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0246
Date:
interview: 1994 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… child; her parents' experiences in Antwerp during the Nazi occupation of Belgium; the dangers Jews were subject to; her family fleeing to Switzerland; the…
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 …,830 --> 00:09:26,290 He had left and gone to Switzerland prior to this time, 126 00:09:26,290 --> 00:09:27,910 sometime. 127 00:09:27,910 --> 00:09:31,090 And…
3. Oral history interview with Ilex Beller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.14 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0014
Date:
interview: 1994 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; learning that his son (one and a half years old) could be housed in Switzerland so he and his family went to Switzerland where they stayed until the end of…
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 … learned that his son (one and a half years old) could be housed in Switzerland so he and his family went to Switzerland where they stayed until the end of…
4. Oral history interview with George L. Mosse
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0310
Date:
interview: 1995 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after 1933; fleeing to Switzerland in 1933 and then later to England, where he studied at Cambridge from 1937 to 1939; receiving his baccalaureate from…
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 … you have any worry about this guy? A: No. Q: So you leave Germany. A: Yes, mm-hm. Q: Do you go to France, or do you go to Switzerland? http…
5. Oral history interview with Frida Wattenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.4 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0004
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; helping to smuggle children to Switzerland; her return to Grenoble, France to help Jewish families escape; losing her forged identity papers in Avignon…
6. Oral history interview with Friedel Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0032
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cross children's transport to Switzerland in 1921 because her mother could not care for her; training to be a nurse and joining the "Schweiser Kinderhilfe…
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 …1 BOHNY-REITER, Friedel RG-50.030*0032 Abstract Friedel Bohny-Reiter was born Catholic in Vienna in l912. In l921, she was sent to Switzerland on a…
7. Oral history interview with John Wahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1281 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1281
Date:
interview: 1986 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… hospital in Switzerland; his work in a hotel on the Isle of Capri; his encounters with some of the major Nazi Party members, including Rudolf Hess, Hermann…
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 … Switzerland under the auspices of the 12 International Red Cross. 13 When arrived in Switzerland landing in Geneva 14 was put on the train to the sanitorium…
8. Oral history interview with David Krauthammer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.421.1 | RG Number: RG-50.959.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. McConey because he was known to help refugees escape to Switzerland for a large fee; bribing many people on his way to Switzerland; his parents’ deaths in…
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 …. House had five- six children, were given room with kitchen, very nice family accommodated them. Could see Switzerland from toilet window, looked through…
9. Oral history interview with Johanna Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.72 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0072
Date:
interview: 1992 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Switzerland; living with an aunt’s the family; nearly having a nervous breakdown; traveling to Geneva where she reconnected with her future husband and worked…
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 … Territet in Switzerland. 7 00:00:16,580 --> 00:00:19,760 I had to leave the home because I 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,590 was under a different status, that…
10. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0403
Date:
interview: 2012 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… June 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; developing pneumonia and not having access to much food while in the camp; being taken to Switzerland in late 1944; staying…
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 … Switzerland. After difficulties in the negotiations, Manny and his family were diverted on a train to Bergen-Belsen camp. They were taken to Switzerland by Nazi…
11. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0274
Date:
interview: 2009 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… June 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; developing pneumonia and not having access to much food while in the camp; being taken to Switzerland in late 1944; staying…
12. Oral history interview with Helene Reeves
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.145 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0414
Date:
interview: 2001 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s receipt of an affidavit from the American psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner; going to Switzerland on a temporary visa to get help from a lawyer at the League of…
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 … Germany because they didn’t develop. I knew some people I met in Switzerland, they http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
13. Oral history interview with August Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0031
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…August Bohny-Reiter, born in 1919, discusses his training as a teacher which he completed in 1941 in Switzerland; his relocation to Pregny, France…
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 …BOHNY-REITER, August RG-50.030*0031 Two video cassettes In German Recorded May 27, 1994 Abstract August Bohny-Reiter was born in Switzerland…
14. Simon Fuks collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0131 | RG Number: RG-02.147
Date:
1941-1993
…; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escape to Switzerland. The…
15. Oral history interview with Simone Monnier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.61 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0061
Date:
interview: 1988 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Simone Monnier, born in 1913 in Switzerland while her family was vacationing, describes her life in France, where she taught at a school (École de…
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 … was born in Switzerland while her family was on vacation. Her father was a French Pastor. She has two sisters, both younger. She was born in 1913. 1:10…
16. Oral history interview with Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0522
Date:
interview: 2015 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lausanne (Switzerland)…
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 … concentration camp where he had been sent. In 1957, long after the war, as Dora was on her way to Switzerland, she met Daniel Klayman returning to New York from a…
17. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Jewish aid organizations had raised enough money to ransom the prisoners. After a few days, they were taken to Caux sur…
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 … aboard the rescue train organized by Rezső Kasztner, internment at Bergen-Belsen, transfer to Switzerland, and immigration to the United States. Languages…
18. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0313
Date:
interview: 2010 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… June 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; developing pneumonia and not having access to much food while in the camp; being taken to Switzerland in late 1944; staying…
19. Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder
2019.308.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.308.2
Date:
creation: 1939
… who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization…
20. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0628
Date:
interview: 2017 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… June 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; developing pneumonia and not having access to much food while in the camp; being taken to Switzerland in late 1944; staying…
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 …, Manny and his mother were released from Bergen-Belsen and transported to safety in neutral Switzerland. There they stayed at the Heiden Children's Home…