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1. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
…. Lazarz Ludwig Ratafia (1915-1984) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Kopel and Elka Ratafia. He had one brother, Gaston, and one sister, Zosia. Lazarz…
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 … number: 2005.198.1 Creator: Ratafia, Tema (Vilnius :Lithuania) Additional creator: Ratafia, Lazarz (Warsaw :Poland) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes…
2. Oral history interview with Chevka Svedosh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.3 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0002
Date:
interview: 1984 March 16-1984 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… age of five; moving to Warsaw, Poland and being raised in the Warsaw ghetto through most of her childhood; belonging to the youth group her father…
3. Oral history interview with Irena Veisaite
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.738 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0505
Date:
interview: 2004 September 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … supposed to come from Warsaw. So -- so I got back and when -- and then my mother came also back. And this was fatal. Q: And then the war started in Poland. A…
4. Meir and Paula Stein diaries and photographs
2008.300.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2008.300.2
Date:
creation: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, born in 1934 in Warsaw, Poland. After the outbreak of the war in 1939, they fled from Warsaw to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) which was under Soviet rule…
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 …-1945 Accession number: 2008.300.2 Creator: Stein (Family: Warsaw, Poland) Extent: .4 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
5. Oral history interview with Clara Ma'ayan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.96 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0096
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Warsaw, Poland; the ghetto in Warsaw; the uprising in August 1944; immigrating through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania to Palestine on the ship…
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 … a leader of the "Hano'ar Hatziony" youth movement in Poland before the war. In the years 1938-1939 studied education at Warsaw and worked in the…
6. Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
2018.395.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 May 09
… member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.…
7. Oral history interview with Gabriel Gilead
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.280.1 | RG Number: RG-50.603.0001
Date:
2008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… orphanage in Germany; his siblings; his forced transit to Poland, where he worked on a kibbutz outside of Warsaw; escaping on foot in September 1939 to a…
8. Oral history interview with Selma Blick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.940 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0940
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forced march; how she and her mother escaped the march; her liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw, Poland; Polish post-war antisemitism; and her…
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 … there. In February, the advancing Russian army saved them. After the war was over she and her mother went to Warsaw. They stayed in Colonzaya(?), Poland…
9. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
…Jakob Dymant (Jan, 1914-1986) was born on May 15, 1914 in Brzeziny, Poland to Chana and Uryn Hersz Dymant. He completed his law studies in Warsaw…
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 … Brzeziny, Poland to Chana and Uryn Hersz Dymant. He completed his law studies in Warsaw shortly before the start of World War II and fled Warsaw on September…
10. Oral history interview with Andrew Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.66 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0165
Date:
interview: 2005 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Andrew (né Andrej) James Glass, born November 30, 1935 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his early childhood; spending time in his wealthy grandfather…
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 …Andrew Glass RG-50.106*0165 Andrew Glass discusses: • his early childhood ( born November 30, 1935) in Warsaw, Poland sending much time in his…
11. Oral history interview with Enrique Kaczor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.43 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0043
Date:
interview: 2011 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Enrique Kaczor, born in Warsaw, Poland, on April 23, 1911, describes his two sisters; his observant Jewish family; finishing technical school after…
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 … at the time of this interview. His speech was not clear, and the names were practically impossible to decipher.) Enrique Kaczor was born in Warsaw…
12. Oral history interview with Dina Webb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.53 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0053
Date:
interview: 1996 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dina Webb (née Bachrach), born May 1932 in Warsaw, Poland, discuss her parents, Hesch and Anka Bachrach; her father who was a printer and active…
13. Oral history interview with Rachel Gliksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.189 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0189
Date:
interview: 1994 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… January 1945; trying to return to Vilnius and the repatriation trains that moved from country to country; going to Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania…
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 … primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. Describes Warsaw and Bucharest where there was an organized Jewish community. She…
14. Oral history interview with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0197
Date:
interview: 1989 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dora Goldstein Roth, born on February 1, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses her family and early childhood; her father’s participation in the Zionist…
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 … war? A: I was born in 1932, 1st of February, in Warsaw. My name was Dorotka Goldstein, Goldstein really, and what I remember from my home, well, we have…
15. Oral history interview with Helena Orchon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.67 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0067
Date:
interview: 1988 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Helena Orchon, born in Kraków, Poland in 1903, describes her family; her father being the director of the Warsaw Drama School; being an actress…
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 …. 02:00 Her father was a well-known and loved doctor who helped many people. When she received the medal, she met a couple from Poland that hid Jews in…
16. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with Hashomer Hatzair; living in Warsaw, Poland from 1945 to 1948; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp from 1948 to 1949; and immigrating to…
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 … to stay in Poland, to organize the...” EM: Illegal immigration, right? AS: Yeah. “With any work what you can help us in Warsaw, not directly with the…
17. Oral history interview with Hinda Kibort
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.4 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0004
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Brzesć Litewski, Poland) then Warsaw, Poland; antisemitism in Poland; crossing into Czechoslovakia; going to Austria then Munich, Germany; remaining in…
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 … train to Warsaw. There was a lot of antisemitism in Poland. In Lithuania they did not want to give up Jewish property . We crossed the border to…
18. Oral history interview with Abe Salem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.27 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0027
Date:
interview: 1989 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abe Salem, born in Warsaw, Poland on December 3, 1919, discusses being the oldest of seven siblings in a strictly Orthodox family; attending…
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 … Warsaw, especially the Jewish areas of the city. He used this analogy for describing the futility of Polish resistance; it was like a little boy (Poland…
19. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.523 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0523
Date:
interview: 1981 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with Hashomer Hatzair; living in Warsaw, Poland from 1945 to 1948; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp from 1948 to 1949; and immigrating to…
20. Oral history interview with Dora Kramen Dimitro
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0347 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0372
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warsaw (Poland)…
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 … Dimitro. I was born in Ashoshok (ph), Poland at that time, in January 22, 1922. My father's name was Hierr (ph) Shavival (ph), my mother's name was Ibella…