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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  9. Oral history interview with George Schwab

  10. Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution

    PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27

  11. Selected records from the State District Archive in Brno-Venkov

    Records of the District Offices of Brno-Venkov and Tišnov, the District National Committee of Brno-Venkov, the Municipal Archives of Tišnov and Ivančice, pertaining to laws and regulations of foreigners, Jewish passport applications and emigration, the expropriation of Jewish property including lists of Jewish property owners, and anti-Jewish measures. Records also features lists of Jewish refugees in the years 1938 and 1939 from various domestic and foreign locations including from Nazi-annexed Vienna, Austria. Also features post-war lists of Jewish survivors.

  12. Oral history interview with Jack Silven