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You searched for: Subject World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. Remove constraint Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. Digital Availability Digitized Remove constraint Digital Availability: Digitized Digital Availability In English Remove constraint Digital Availability: In English Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. Gladys Martin collection
2012.330.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.330.1
Date:
creation: 1945 June 20
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
2. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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…World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Personal narratives, American.…
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 … terms Schmuhl, Lorenz, 1898-1988. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Refugee camps. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945…
3. Ross Baker collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2005
bulk: 1933-1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …. Baker, Helen, 1889-1964. Topical Subject: Americans--Austria--History. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Propaganda. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives…
4. Oral history interview with Maurice Bower
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.292.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0825
Date:
interview: 2015 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …,730 Well, when was the war over? 2625 01:46:14,730 --> 01:46:19,430 May 8th or 9th, 1945. 2626 01:46:19,430 --> 01:46:24,740 I was out of the army in '46 in…
5. J. George Mitnick papers
2005.120.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.120.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2005
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. Jewish soldiers--United States…
6. Oral history interview with Louis Walinsky
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0314
Date:
interview: 1995 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …. But I had a play produced in Paris, a dramatization of Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World." But then, the war came and I had the opportunity to join the…
7. Oral history interview with Francis Robert Dwyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.63.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1109
Date:
interview: 2021 April 12
interview: 2021 April 15
interview: 2021 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
8. Oral history interview with John Glustrom, Leo Pine, and Dennis Wile
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.4 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0004
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
9. Oral history interview with Alan W. Lukens
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.116.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0208
Date:
interview: 2013 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … took a ship at the beginning of 1945, which 220 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,480 landed in France at Le Havre. 221 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:38,320 You left…
10. Oral history interview with Marie Ellifritz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.11 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0011
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …:15,850 During World War II. 28 00:01:15,850 --> 00:01:17,990 I have to ask you some questions for the record. 29 00:01:17,990 --> 00:01:20,630 I would…
11. Oral history interview with Ed Gardner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.223.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0672
Date:
interview: 2012 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … colorblind. • Went through 16 weeks of basic training at Camp Gordon. Had been drafted the day before Germany surrendered (~May 7, 1945), and was on his last…
12. Oral history interview with Vincent Koch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.154.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0914
Date:
interview: 2017 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …,300 Well, the war started in Europe in 1933. 621 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:37,260 No, 1939. 622 00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:38,190 '39. 623 00:25:38,190 --> 00:25:38…
13. Oral history interview with James Moncrief
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.16 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0016
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … about ... COL. MONCRIEF: Okay. Uh, in April of 1945, the war had reached the stage where soldiers, had reached the stage that soldiers called it a rat…
14. Oral history interview with Irving Heymont
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.8 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0008
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … regimental commander and I were ordered to Paris to testify at a board proceeding, and then authorized to take leave. This was early September 1945. At this…
15. Oral history interview with Lore Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.204 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0161
Date:
interview: 2003 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …, and beyond, did you pay much attention to events that were going on in Germany? Again now, I’m talking about before 1939, before the war. Were you…
16. Oral history interview with Benjamin B. Ferencz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0269
Date:
interview: 1994 August 26
interview: 1994 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … invited by what was then called the United Nations War Crimes Commission, had nothing to do with the United Nations as we know it today, to be the American…
17. Oral history interview with Chasten Bowen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.57.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0691
Date:
interview: 2013 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … planes on them if they don’t surrender, and stuff like that, you know, and – and it showed how Americans treat German prisoners of war, and stuff, it…
18. Oral history interview with Natalie Kent Kempner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.539.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0995
Date:
interview: 2018 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …,030 The US declares war on Japan in 1941. 1179 00:55:21,030 --> 00:55:25,680 But the war in Europe had been going on since 1939. 1180 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55…
19. Oral history interview with Saul Sorrin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0284
Date:
interview: 1994 October 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … to the U.S. from the American zones of Germany and Austria, refugees had to prove that they had arrived before December 22, 1945; and the national…
20. Oral history interview with George Pisik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1278 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0124
Date:
interview: 1993 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …, the war was winding down. And May 1945 we entered the place called Dachau, right outside of Munich. We were never told about Dachau, we were never told…