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1. Linda and Friedrich Breder testimony
Document | Accession Number: 1983.003 | RG Number: RG-02.014.01
Date:
1983 April
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
2. Oral history interview with Eve Bergstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.1 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0001
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … first time in 1945-- 457 00:25:39,139 --> 00:25:40,290 should I go on? 458 00:25:40,290 --> 00:25:45,990 For the first time in 1945, I met her family in…
3. Oral history interview with Annette Berman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.2 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0002
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.…
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 …? At this point I was 19. [AUDIO DROP] Were you the only Jewish person in the area that was in the underground? Yes. Also, the group was larger than I…
4. Oral history interview with Janny Blom
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.3 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0003
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.…
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 …, Roosevelt? What you admired about them? Their leadership. OK. Before 1939 and 1945, were you ever unjustly treated by any government official? No. Was anyone…
5. Oral history interview with Sjouke Bouwme de Vries
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.4 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0004
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … do, condemn them? Yeah, I know that that's part of the story. That's part of the story, I tell you. Well, between 1939 and 1945, during the war, were…
6. Oral history interview with Knud Dyring Dyby
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.5 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Denmark--Personal narratives.…
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 … hard to go around. And it was only in the-- it was more in 1944, the end of 1944 and 1945, where the underground actually fought the Germans, that we had…
7. Oral history interview with Herman Graebe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.6 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0006
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … drink and food, entertainment. Where did you get it from? Money. Where did you get the money? From my own money. I had already made by 1939 350,000 marks…
8. Oral history interview with Annelies Herzl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.7 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0007
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives.…
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 … home until we were 64 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:19,959 liberated in May of 1945 Hoenderloo 65 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,210 by the Canadian army. 66 00:04…
9. Oral history interview with Harry Jaarsma
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.8 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0008
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … Irene Rose. And when were they born? Richard was born in 1939. And my daughter was born in 1946. OK, and your occupation at all at this time, you were an…
10. Oral history interview with Mary Schroder Moen Jacobs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.9 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0009
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … errors in spelling or accuracy. 186 00:10:24,950 --> 00:10:29,480 187 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,490 Between 1939 and 1945 were you ever unjustly treated…
11. Oral history interview with Cornelia Knottnerus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.10 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0010
Date:
interview: 1984 September 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.…
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 …, Poland, or others. Page 27. Page 27. Between 1939 and 1945, were you ever unjustly treated by any government officials? Oh, we were all unjustly treated by…
12. Oral history interview with Carl Heinz Kneuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.11 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0011
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … or less Jewish, you know. He was a friend of Einstein. Einstein played the fiddle. They had a quartet consisting of Heubner and Einstein and two other…
13. Oral history interview with Rose Koenigsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.12 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0012
Date:
interview: 1984 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 … teacher in the town of Ralova (?) until March 1939 when the Hungarians occupied the entire town. Shortly afterwards, Rose and some of the other Jewish…
14. Oral history interview with Jane Laufer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.13 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0013
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … remember when the war broke out? Yes, of course, September 1, 1939. Where were you? We were-- it was a big propaganda. Because many Germans were living in…
15. Oral history interview with Margot Lawson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.14 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0014
Date:
interview: 1984 September 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … that stuff, and they smashed Jewish windows, Jewish stores. They put big swastikas on the doors, and they were just awful. Did you personally see these…
16. Oral history interview with Eva Lewin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.15 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0015
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
17. Oral history interview with Alice Meilof
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.17 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0017
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … Jews during the Holocaust. Could you tell me your complete name? Yeah. Alice Prviksma Meilof. And where and when were you born? I was born in Borkum in…
18. Oral history interview with Halina Melnyczuk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.18 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0018
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …:07:35,870 --> 00:07:46,950 And well, what else would you like me to describe? 113 00:07:46,950 --> 00:07:53,220 I was-- the war started in 1939 I just…
19. Oral history interview with Tjitske Mulder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.19 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0019
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 …. So we leave it open. Thinking back, between 1939 and 1945, were you ever unjustly treated by any government officials? No. No. Was anyone you cared…
20. Oral history interview with Wanda Ollbryska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.20 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0020
Date:
interview: 1984 September
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … haven’t. AO: When did you decide to help Jews? WO: When my brother came to me and asked me to take in a Jewish couple. AO: Did you help people that you…
21. Oral history interview with Irene Opdyke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.21 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0021
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … Germany to displaced person camp. So I was a Catholic living in a Jewish camp. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
22. Oral history interview with Jacob Oversloot
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.22 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0022
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
23. Oral history interview with Alice Paulus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.23 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0023
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … to the time-- well, let's see, turn to page 27, do 43. Between 1939 and 1945, were you ever unjustly treated by any government official? Was anyone you…
24. Oral history interview with Marion Pritchard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.24 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0024
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 … deported to a concentration camp. In June 1945 Marion went to work with the United Nations in displaced persons camps in Germany where she met an officer in…
25. Oral history interview with Mary Barys Szul
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.25 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0025
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … 00:00:40,985 --> 00:00:48,575 12 00:00:48,575 --> 00:00:51,350 Like you see the Jewish people far away, Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
26. Oral history interview with Magda Trocme
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.26 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0026
Date:
interview: 1984 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.…
27. Oral history interview with Andrew van Schilfgaarde
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.27 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0027
Date:
interview: 1984 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
28. Oral history interview with Ann van Veldhuizen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.28 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0028
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
29. Oral history interview with Johanna Vos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.29 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0029
Date:
interview: 1984 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
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 …,500 --> 00:09:15,620 Because when a Jewish person died in your house, 228 00:09:15,620 --> 00:09:17,690 what the hell did you do? 229 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:19…
30. Oral history interview with Theresa Weerstra
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.30 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0030
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives.…
31. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
32. Narrative and diary of Mr. Gabriel Mermall
1986.019.1 Box1 Folder 1 Item 68
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.1 | RG Number: RG-02.008.01
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
33. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
34. "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrolagia Zydow w Deblinie"
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0104 | RG Number: RG-03.003.01
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Dęblin (Warsaw)…
35. Isaac Frankel testimony
Document | Accession Number: 1987.026 | RG Number: RG-02.006.01
Date:
1987
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
36. Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld memoirs
Document | Accession Number: 1987.031 | RG Number: RG-02.010.01
Date:
1985
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
37. "An unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942"
Document | Accession Number: 1987.035
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.…
38. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Political prisoners‐‐France. Political prisoners‐‐Germany. http…
39. Watercolor by a US soldier of corpses from a liberated concentration camp awaiting burial
Object | Accession Number: 1988.8.1
Date:
depiction: 1945 May 08
creation: 1945 May 08
Artwork Title:
Burials at Lambach
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Gunskirchen.…
40. Pamphlet
Object | Accession Number: 1988.8.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1979
Title:
Seventy-first came -- to Gunskirchen Lager
Series Title:
Witness to the Holocaust" series ; no. 1.
Alternate Title:
71st came-- to Gunskirchen Lager
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Gunskirchen.…
41. The destruction of the Salonica Jewry
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0091 | RG Number: RG-03.008.01
Date:
1972
Subtitle:
A personal view
…World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists.…
42. Oral history interview with Chil Rajchman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1988.H.0179 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0185
Date:
interview: 1988 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 …_ until 1939. On September 1, 1939, World War II started. Sadly, Poland lost the war and after a few days, the Germans occupied our city. Germans came in…
43. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of a Ghetto evacuation
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.1
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
Clearing the Ghetto
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
44. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.2
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
Execution
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
45. Watercolor created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave
1988.14.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.3
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
3 in a series of 3
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
46. "Family Reunion"
Document | Accession Number: 1988.017 | RG Number: RG-02.011.01
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
47. Poetry and songs relating to German and Stalinist camps
Document | Accession Number: 1988.022 | RG Number: RG-04.001.01.01
Date:
1930-1950
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
48. Oral history interview with Joyce Wagner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1988.23.1 | RG Number: RG-50.004.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … in January-- in September the 1st, 1919. I was staying in this-- 19 what? 19. '39? 1939. I'm sorry. 1939. And I was in the store. And across the street…
49. Marianne Karmel collection
1988.51.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.51.1 | RG Number: RG-10.271
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives.…
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 …. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Personal narratives. Soldiers--American--France. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France. False…
50. Beno Helmer scrapbook
Object | Accession Number: 1988.68.1
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź--Personal narratives.…