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1. Toni Heller collection
1995.A.0176 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0176
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
… interview with Commander Gemmecke of Westerbork, a testimony on life in the camp, and a brief biography and testimony written by Toni Heller. The collection…
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 … from the refugee camp. Other items include an interview with Commander Gemmecke of Westerbork, a testimony on life in the camp, and a brief biography…
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2. Otto and Monna Weinmann papers
2013.374.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2013.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
bulk: 1943-1945
… worsened, Weinmann left Prague in 1938 and moved to Paris. In 1939, he joined the Czechslovak army under French command. When Germany invaded France in 1940…
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 … Czech forces under English command, and Monna, who was living in London, between 1943-1945. Also includes wartime correspondence from family members in…
3. Oral history interview with Max Amichai Heppner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.343.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0094
Date:
interview: 1990 February 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mother getting captured during a street raid but then being released by a Nazi commander in August 1942; escaping into the countryside with his parents and…
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 … broken and were up to the whim of which ever commander was in charge. My mother was taken to a theater which was uh known as the Holland _________, uh…
4. Oral history interview with Jacob van Proosdij
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.582 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0001
Date:
interview: 2004 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… relationship with Hans Calmeyer and Albert Gemmeker, the commandant of Westerbork; his suspicions about what was happening to those who were deported; realizing…
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 … parents but was ‘adopted’. Money for these operations came from the underground movement. The commander of Westerbork was complaining that people who…
5. Oral history interview with Barry Spanjaard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1458 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1458
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… starvation, the kindness and selfishness of fellow prisoners, and his work as the message boy for camp commandant Josef Kramer; his family's release in January…
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 … idea how it would end. There was one time that we got little hopeful. was the commanding officers private orderly messenger boy Josef Kramers messenger…
6. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
… of documents related to the post-war investigation of the Contact Afdeling; miscellaneous documents including copies of letters Camp Commandant Albert…
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 …; miscellaneous documents including copies of letters Camp Commandant Albert Gemmeker, details of a lawsuit settled in 1944, memorandum, and blank identification…
7. Oral history interview with Ya'akov ben Dror
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.186 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0186
Date:
interview: 1994 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transports; the underground in Birkenau and having his name changed; becoming a Kapo’s assistant; falling ill with typhoid fever; working for a camp commander…
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 … SS. 7:16:30 Ya’akov was appointed a Kapo’s “pipl,” to the camp commander’s wife. 7:19:37 The camp commander’s wife didn’t know or believe that the…
8. Oral history interview with Cornelus De Vreede
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.12 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… faith; how many inmates had bibles; daily routines in the camp; mistreatment in the camp; being batman to the head commander of the camp, Adolf Gustav…
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 … of being batman to the head commander of the camp: Adolf Gustav Schorke. During that assignment he was not allowed to be outside of the camp unless…
9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2330 | Film ID: 892
Film Title:
The Refugee-Today and Tomorrow
Date:
Event: December 1938
Duration:
00:09:44
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, meeting of the Committee's Council: from left to right, Colonel Durieux, former commanding officer of the Republican Guard; Albert Levy, President of the…
10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam
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Film | Accession Number: 1997.134.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1043 | Film ID: 47
Film Title:
The Refugee-Today and Tomorrow
Date:
Event: December 1938
Duration:
00:09:43
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, meeting of the Committee's Council: from left to right, Colonel Durieux, former commanding officer of the Republican Guard; Albert Levy, President of the…
11. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.5
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
… met siblings Lilo and Paul Hirsch, his future wife and brother-in-law. At the time, Westerbork was under the authority of a German commandant, but…
12. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.4
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
… met siblings Lilo and Paul Hirsch, his future wife and brother-in-law. At the time, Westerbork was under the authority of a German commandant, but…
13. Oral history interview with John Franklin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.291 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0291
Date:
interview: 1994 December 08
interview: 1995 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … case they came. 14 These were Dutch Nazis Dutch S.S. under 15 German command. They were just as bad if not worse. And 16 we had already at that time…
14. Oral history interview with Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1454 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1454
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … time went on and there were various Bucks County Court Reporters Inc. 215 348.1173 commands such as we had to wear the Jewish star and we children had to…
15. Oral history interview with Cornelis Verbiest
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.583 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0002
Date:
interview: 2004 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … on the role of all Dutch people concerning the deportation of Jews; explains the Dutch chain of command in this process; explains his refusal of…
16. Oral history interview with Edward Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.3 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … head, maybe a foot above our head, and they said, they made a, the commander made a speech, they said that if Germany, this was the time of Germany…
17. Oral history interview with Pieter Adriaan Meerburg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0154
Date:
interview: 1990 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung--the Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration. 12 Ferdinand aus der Fünten, the commander of the German Security Police, who…
18. Oral history interview with Max Garcia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
interview: 1990 November 15
interview: 1991 February 21
interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the doctors house across the street from the command post it probably was late afternoon and so the sequence seems to be kind of proper there. At any…
19. Oral history interview with Klaas De Vries and Maria De Vries
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.13 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0013
Date:
interview: 1990 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … villagers. The Witnesses held on to each other so they wouldn't fall down because if you fell down, you were shot. At the end of two weeks, the commanding…
20. Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … secured. We had 25 camp commander and we saw the ships coming in and out HANS WOLFGANG PHILIPPI 37 because we were just on the harbor. Q. DO YOU HAVE ANY…