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1. Oral history interview with Wladislawa Zawistowska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.12 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0012
Date:
interview: 1994 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
2. Oral history interview with Ina Rennert-Rakavy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.24 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0024
Date:
interview: 1993 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
3. Oral history interview with Anna Post
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.66 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0066
Date:
interview: 1991 September 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anna Dulla Post (alias: Salome Czaplinska), born in 1923 in Bronocice, Poland, discusses growing up in a happy observant Jewish family of three…
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 … if I have anybody from my family, if anybody survived. I just felt I'm the only Jewish person in the whole world. And when we arrived in Auschwitz, it…
4. Oral history interview with Edward Darell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.304.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0940
Date:
interview: 2017 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … family because of many factors, including my father's guilt about being Jewish and hiding that fact. And that was one place where he could tell the truth…
5. Oral testimony of Golda Finkler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.266.1 | RG Number: RG-50.110.0001
Date:
Recorded: 1971-1991
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … September. Asked his father, he left and came back immediately. The destruction. The suicide of the head of Jewish community, Cheniakow. Side 2 is totally…
6. Oral history interview with George Elbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.146.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0958
Date:
interview: 2018 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in 1942; being hidden with a number of Polish families until the end of the war and only learned he was Jewish later; life after the war; his mother…
7. Oral history interview with Marsha Rozenblit
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.116 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … investigated his brother’s wife but he didn’t. That may mean that the family was angry that he had married a non-Jewish woman or something like that. Anyway Meir…
8. Berkowicz family papers
2006.513.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2006.513.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1948
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …, David. Bursztyn, Faiga Tac. Hochenberg, Mania. Hochenberg, Moniek. Topical Subject: Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw. Refugees, Jewish. Warsaw Ghetto…
9. Cytrynowski family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2004.124.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1943
… Israel and build a Jewish homeland. Their parents spoke exclusively in Hebrew; even their Polish maids understood the basics of the language. The family…
10. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs
2016.545.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2016.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1952
…Jewish families--Poland--Czestochowa.…
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 …, 1900-1986. Topical Subject: Emigration & immigration--United States--1940-1950. Jewish families--Poland--Czestochowa. Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw…
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11. Depsztok and Apelojg families correspondence
2017.453.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.453.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1948
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … families correspondence is arranged as a single series. Indexing terms Topical terms Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires. Jewish families…
12. Sara Zayer papers
1995.A.0286.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
13. Lavender blouse with tie worn during a young woman's escape from the Warsaw ghetto
2007.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.175.2
Date:
use: 1943 March
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
14. Janina Prot papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.148
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-1939
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …; black and white image of two men in costumes, on stage (Ignacy Wald, donor’s husband, on right, performs in play staged by Jewish Gymnasium in Warsaw…
15. Berkowicz family collection
1995.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0128 | RG Number: RG-10.313
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1942
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
16. Oral history interview with Gary Keins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1214 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1214
Date:
interview: 1989 November 02
interview: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
17. Child's peach silk polka dot dress brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.24
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Child's peach silk polka dot dress brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
18. Striped wool jacket used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.2
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
19. Beige and orange embroidered linen napkin used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.3
Date:
creation: 1937
use: 1937-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
20. Engraved silver perfume bottle carried postwar by a refugee searching for her family
2008.228.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.9
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
21. Iridescent plaid silk taffeta handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.40 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.40
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Iridescent plaid silk taffeta handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
22. Oral history interview with Sarah Rozenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.30 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0030
Date:
interview: 1988 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … well as the high school, were primarily Jewish children-attended. And because there was an extended family, we didn't mix too much with youngsters of non…
23. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … children in the Holocaust‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish families‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish refugees‐‐United States. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Refugees‐‐United…
24. Silk circus print handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.35
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
manufacture: approximately 1935
…Silk circus print handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
25. White embroidered cotton slip with an NS monogram and interior flap brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: 1926
…White embroidered cotton slip with an NS monogram and interior flap brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
26. Oral history interview with Margaret Blatman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.1.2 | RG Number: RG-90.159.0002
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, describes: being the youngest of three children in a loving family [Note: no date of birth or place beyond Poland given; later remarks suggest birth about…
27. Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.22
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1939
…Child's gray shearling embroidered mountaineer's craft coat brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
28. Woven navy blue wool scarf with red and white accents brought to the US by Nadzieja Klein's family
2009.376.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.14
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
29. Lace bordered white handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.32
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Lace bordered white handkerchief brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
30. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.4
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
31. White cotton lace handkerchief with a floral motif lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.34
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…White cotton lace handkerchief with a floral motif lace border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
32. Woman's white silk dickey brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Woman's white silk dickey brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
33. Irene Engelman correspondence
2003.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2003.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
…Jewish families--Poland--Łódź.…
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 …‐1941, and 1946. Indexing terms Jewish families – Poland – Łódź. Jewish ghettos – Poland – Łódź. Jewish ghettos – Poland – Warsaw. Jewish…
34. Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.28
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
…Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
35. Detachable knife used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.18_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
36. White handkerchief with an embroidered triangle patterned border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.33
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…White handkerchief with an embroidered triangle patterned border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
37. Pastel portrait of a young Polish Jewish boy
Object | Accession Number: 2004.569.2
Date:
depiction: 1937
creation: 1937
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Kazik
…Wilhelm Wachtel was born on August 12, 1875, in Lemberg, Austria (later Lvov, Poland, now L’viv, Ukraine), to a Jewish family. He studied at the…
38. White silk handkerchief bordered with lace and pink flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.37
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…White silk handkerchief bordered with lace and pink flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
39. Sieraczek family papers
2015.569. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2015.569.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, Henryk Sieraczek, Jerzy (Jerome Sears) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish families--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
40. Lizard skin clutch, change purse, mirror, and key brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.31_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.31 a-d
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Lizard skin clutch, change purse, mirror, and key brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
41. Ritz of Paris lipstick case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.16
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
42. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
43. White rabbit fur collar brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.12
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…White rabbit fur collar brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
44. Child's peach silk sleeveless dress with embroidered flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.25
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Child's peach silk sleeveless dress with embroidered flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
45. Sewing needle case used for lipstick in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.15 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.15
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
46. Oral history interview with Sophie Koper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.153 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0412
Date:
interview: 2001 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sophie Koper, born on May 5, 1916 in Moscow, Russia, discusses how her family, even though Jewish, was allowed to stay in Moscow because her mother…
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 … that I -- I -- that I am Jewish, but that’s all. It’s a [indecipherable] up to -- Q: Right. A: -- yeah, up to -- up to here. I tried to go to synagogue…
47. White silk handkerchief with handmade floral lace design brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.36
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…White silk handkerchief with handmade floral lace design brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
48. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
49. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0665
Date:
interview: 2018 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …. Estelle was the younger of two sisters. In addition to her parents, her family included many aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Nazis invaded Poland on…
50. Red enamel cup used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.12
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…