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1. Oral history interview with George Winston
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.189 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0189
Date:
interview: 1992 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in 1944; living in France after the end of the war; and immigrating to and establishing his life in…
2. Oral history interview with Salomon Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0017
Date:
interview: 1995 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… false names while in hiding; traveling to Izmir, Turkey then Syria; being captured by English troops; how the family was taken to British camps in the…
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 … the partisans, we pass by sea to Turkey, and from Turkey, we go to Syria, and the city name Halab. And there exactly the English troop defeated the…
3. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0467
Date:
interview: 2014 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
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 … through the length of Turkey in a cold train covered with bedbugs. Then we went by bus through Syria, and we came back to Palestine. My father's brother…
4. Oral history interview with Salomon Notrika
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.39 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0039
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… generation born in Argentina; the economic differences between communities originally from Greece and Turkey; how religious observances in the Temple Shalom…
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 …. Economic differences between both communities, from Rhodes and from Turkey. Few Jews came from Salonica after the war, and from Kos (in Greece…
5. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0431
Date:
interview: 2013 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
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 … Odessa we went by Russian ship to Turkey and from Turkey back to Palestine. And that's another story. We came to Palestine. The Germans and the Italians…
6. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0376
Date:
interview: 2012 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
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 … ship to Turkey, then from Istanbul by train through Syria, Lebanon, and back to Palestine. They arrived in Tel Aviv in October 1940. Julius served in the…
7. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0602
Date:
interview: 2017 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
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 … of bed bugs on the train. >> Julius Menn: We had to go first class. From Syria, Lebanon, we went to Palestine. My father lost everything, basically in…
8. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0339
Date:
interview: 2011 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
9. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0557
Date:
interview: 2016 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
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 … a ship to Turkey and eventually to Palestine, arriving in Tel Aviv in October 1940. The Menn family is pictured here in Tel Aviv in 1945. Julius is on…
10. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0512
Date:
interview: 2015 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
11. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0268
Date:
interview: 2009 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
12. Oral history interview with Julius Menn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0306
Date:
interview: 2010 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there, traveling by train through Syria and Lebanon; arriving in Palestine in October 1940; serving in the Haganah (Jewish Military force in Palestine) as…
13. Oral history interview with Frederick Wohl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.49 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0077
Date:
interview: 2004 February 13
interview: 2004 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Greece, Nicosia, Cyprus, and East Africa; immigrating to the United States and eventually settling in Washington, DC, where he became a licensed insurance…
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 …, Evelyn Mitzner; his various apprenticeships as a young man; his voluntary relocations to Athens, Greece, Nicosia, Cyprus, and East Africa; immigrating to…
14. Oral history interview with Walter Gelnay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.822 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0822
Date:
interview: 2003 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his father's flight to Beirut, Lebanon; moving to Prague, Czech Republic, where he worked for an export business; the closing of the business; his…
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 … I told him. I showed him that I had come legally from Syria, from Lebanon, that I had a Lebanon permit, and that I told him I wanted to get into…
15. Oral history interview with Jerzy Glówczewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.82.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0699
Date:
interview: 2013 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Romania with his stepfather, and eventually making his way to Palestine via Turkey; graduating from the Polish high school in Tel Aviv; being accepted into…
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 … get to Palestine? What is the procedure? A: Well, we – we – we thought that we are going to Cyprus from – from Turkey. The – us – the joke was we are…
16. Oral history interview with Isaac Nehama
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.179 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0069
Date:
interview: 2003 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Isaac Nehama, born in Athens, Greece on April 29, 1926, discusses his pre-war family life in Greece; the German invasion; going into hiding…
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 … Turkey, through Syria, and Lebanon, eventually to Palestine. Now some of them, and her sister, either -- I mean, drowned, that’s for sure. What is not…
17. Oral history interview with Aimée Beressi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.139.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0713
Date:
interview: 2013 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Madame Aimée Beressi (née Setton), born on May 12, 1924 in Cairo, Egypt, describes her father Chaloum Setton, who was born in 1881 in Alep, Syria…
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 …, Syria, where his father sold livestock. Chaloum’s mother died at an early age and his father and he went to live in Cairo, where his older sister lived…
18. Oral history interview with Ester Dante
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.231 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0231
Date:
interview: 1995 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… saved by a Greek neighbor; being taken to Athens, Greece to prepare to go to Israel; internment on the island of Cyprus; and adjustment to life in Israel.…
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 … prepared to go to Israel. After 6 months, they went by boat Henrietta Szold to Israel. They were caught by the British and taken to Cyprus. After 6 months…
19. Oral history interview with Isaac Nehama
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.333 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0472
Date:
interview: 2002 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Isaac Nehama, born in 1926 in Athens, Greece, discusses his childhood; the integration of Sephardic Jews into Greek society; the Italian occupation…
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 … order to transfer from a private school 15 00:00:54,780 --> 00:00:58,620 to a public school in Greece, at least at that time, 16 00:00:58,620 --> 00:01:04…
20. Oral history interview with Abraham Jaeger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.175 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0175
Date:
interview: 1994 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… salesman; his escape in October 1939 to Palestine, where he was imprisoned for six months; his experiences serving in the British Army in Egypt, Syria, and…