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1. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Benjamin was mobilized into the Polish Army as a lieutenant. He was soon captured as a prisoner of war. He…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of…
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2. Oral history interview with Morris Kornberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0061
Date:
interview: 1999 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the ghetto; being arrested and beaten by the Gestapo on suspicion that he was helping the Polish Resistance; his experience in a prison in Końskie…
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 … ghetto; being arrested and beaten by the Gestapo on suspicion that he was helping the Polish Resistance; his experience in a prison in Końskie; being sent…
3. Oral history interview with Herbert Finder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19
interview: 1987 March 19
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where non-Jewish German prisoners were in charge; prisoners trading for food with Poles; a typhus epidemic killing many; working in a burial detail that…
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 … was their function to, every guard was assigned a certain amount of prisoners. We called it [unclear]. NL: So they got cold. HF: They were cold. That…
4. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… underground political activities. For the next nine months he was interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo at the Radogoszcz prison in Łódź. In October 1942…
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 … imprisonments in Radogoszcz prison and Auschwitz concentration camp, 1942-1942. The papers also contain photographs and two photograph albums of the Zyzniewski…
5. Oral history interview with Phyllis Thompson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1801 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1801
Date:
interview: 1980 December 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; arriving in Auschwitz; life in the camp, including the conditions and the support that she gave and received from other prisoners from Ostrowiec; her…
6. Oral history interview with Ya'akov Movshovich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.270 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0270
Date:
interview: 1996 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Italian and giving him food, cigarettes, and a coat; working in the kitchen; throwing food to fellow prisoners; a religious prisoner refusing to eat bread…
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 … Pole and also a prisoner, was head of the Block. He was extremely cruel. Describes terrible conditions in the Block. 3.53 After 12 days in the camp, he…
7. Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (GK 160)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.85.1 | RG Number: RG-15.677
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
8. Oral history interview with Elias Cala
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.12 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0012
Date:
interview: 1984 September 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… fierce battle lasting several days; his unit being taken prisoner by the Germans; the Jews being immediately separated from the rest of the unit and…
9. Oral history interview with Anatole Gorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.10 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0010
Date:
interview: 1985 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, when Germany invaded Poland; fighting in the Polish Army for three weeks; being taken to a prisoner-of-war camp for a few weeks; living with his family…
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 … Germany invaded Poland. He fought in the Polish Army for 3 weeks, after being in the Reserves was taken in a prisoner of war camp for a few weeks. He found…
10. Oral history interview with Abraham Jacob Holzman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0040
Date:
interview: 1983 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… were sent to Görlitz; his work in an airplane factory; the treatment of the prisoners; being sent on a death march for four weeks before returning to…
11. Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.5 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0005
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… systematic nature of extermination in Auschwitz; the massacre of many camp prisoners at Buchenwald shortly before liberation; his thoughts on Holocaust…
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 … war as war 136 00:07:01,330 --> 00:07:08,080 is the German caught a lot of Polish soldiers as prisoners. 137 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,900 And they kept…
12. Oral history interview with Henry Konstam
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0054
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
13. Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.4 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0004
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… methods for survival; selections in the camp; his parents coming to Auschwitz and dying; the Poles, Romanies, and political prisoners in the camp; his…
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 … you have any contact with other non-Jewish prisoners? Political prisoners? A: Oh, sure. Absolutely. Q: Those who had worked for Jews? Can you tell me…
14. Oral history interview with Henry Lipschitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.64 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0064
Date:
interview: 1996 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
15. Oral history interview with Lidia Dzikowska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.237 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0237
Date:
interview: 2005 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
16. Oral history interview with Tusia Volansky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.237 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0237
Date:
interview: 1994 January 17
interview: 1994 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.…
17. Oral history interview with Jerzy Vogel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.151 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0151
Date:
interview: 2002 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Poland.…
18. Oral history interview with Alexandra Gorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.9 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0009
Date:
interview: 1985 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.…
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 … prison uniforms, blue and white stripes. And they gave us clogs, wood en clogs. And the same night they put us again in cattle cars. And we were, I don…
19. Oral history interview with Leon Faigenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.67 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0067
Date:
interview: 1984 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.…
20. Oral history interview with Daniel Geslewitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.16 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0016
Date:
interview: 1988 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of.…
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 …, came out the other side and then they gave them prison garb. They only let them keep their belts, which he still has today. They were kept in barracks…