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1. 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
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
2. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
3. Six essays relating to the persecution of Roma
Document | Accession Number: 1987.007.1 | RG Number: RG-07.001.01
…Romanies--Germany.…
4. Poland: excerpts from Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenskizzen
Document | Accession Number: 1987.007.3 | RG Number: RG-07.003.01
…Romanies--Germany.…
5. Anton Fojn papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.007.4 | RG Number: RG-07.004.01
…Consists of copies of name lists and other documents relating to Roma children living in the St. Josefspflege at Mulfingen, Germany, and their…
6. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection
1988.43.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1988.43.1 | RG Number: RG-10.272
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
…Dachau (Germany : Refugee camp)…
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 …) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 3 Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Holocaust survivors--Austria. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Dachau (Germany : Refugee…
7. Machtinger family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1988.090.2
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1988
… camp in Germany on July 23, 1946. Ruth married Morton Faller and they had two children, Bryan and Scott Faller. Paul Machtinger died on September 9…
8. Records relating to the treatment of Roma from the 1920s to the 1960s
Document | Accession Number: 1988.178 | RG Number: RG-07.005
…Germany--History--1933-1945.…
9. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eddie Willner, born on August 15, 1926 in Germany, describes how his father had felt that his family would be safe because he had fought in the…
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 … as a refugee child. Q: When and where were you born? A: I was born on the 15th of August, 1926 in Munchglablak, Germany, which is West Germany near…
10. Oral history interview with Ernst Weihs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0318 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0248
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … everything. And he wanted me not to go in a office...work in an office. Go out and be in the outside, in nature. So one day they went on vacation to Germany…
11. Oral history interview with Michael Vogel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0329 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0240
Date:
interview: 1989 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Battalion on their tour through Germany and Czechoslovakia; swearing himself into the United States Army at a G.I. Camp Home Run in Le Havre, France in…
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 … was sent back when Hitler started the rumbles. This was before the Anschluss in 1938 in Austria. We knew of problems in Germany. We knew of some…
12. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0335 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his liberation in Theresienstadt by Soviet forces in 1945; going to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1945 and getting a job as…
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 … going to Germany so they chase you back. You know, just always tell them the opposite. And we had the nightman night, because we finally got on a train in…
13. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Helen Waterford, born in Germany in April 14, 1909, discusses her 1933 marriage; her move to Amsterdam in 1934; working for many years to help Jews…
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 … 14th, 1909. Q: And where were you born, Helen? A: In Germany. Q: Helen, tell me about your childhood? Can we talk about that for awhile? A: Sure. My…
14. Oral history interview with Marie Schwartzman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.341 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0009
Date:
interview: 1994 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … make packages to send it to Germany. 1077 00:50:28,865 --> 00:50:30,740 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is…
15. Helen H. Waterford manuscripts
Document | Accession Number: 1989.020 | RG Number: RG-02.015
…Helen H. Waterford is a native of Offenbach, Germany, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Waterford and her first husband were hidden by non-Jews in…
16. Survival oral history, 1933-1945
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.077 | RG Number: RG-02.017
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany.…
17. Prisoner identification tag with attached charms issued to Bronia Eiger-Sitner
1989.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.173.1 a-b
Date:
Issued: after 1944 November 23-before 1945 March
… camp in Germany. This group of women was taken to Lippstadt, and assigned to work as forced laborers in a munitions factory. Each woman was assigned a…
18. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
19. 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
… because they were chosen for work; conditions in the camp, including the meager food and beatings; being sent after a week to Germany to do forced labor as…
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 …'t work in Auschwitz. Was there a short time. He became a metal worker and left Auschwitz after 7-8 days to go to Germany to work. He worked in a village in…
20. Oral history interview with Heddy Spitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.54 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0054
Date:
interview: 1988 January 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russian; working in the fields until the Russians liberated them; registering in Germany to go to the United States after the war; opening a business in…
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 … - registered in Germany to go to US Present - have a business in Phoenix, four children. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
21. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
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 … narratives. Political prisoners--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. Women psychologists. Prague (Czech Republic…
22. Oral history interview with Barry Bruk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.5 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0005
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liquidation of the ghetto hospital; being deported from the ghetto with his family; being separated from his mother at Birkenau; being sent to Dresden, Germany…
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 … was in Germany. Many German Jews were sent to Poland in the early thirties so it seemed as if the problem was in Germany and to get away from it the…
23. Oral history interview with Fred Diament
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.8 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0008
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fred Diament, born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, describes his Orthodox parents, who were Polish Jews and moved to Germany in 1919; the distinct…
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 … in the Ruhr valley in Germany. He grew up in Germany in this heavy industrial area. He attended high school for six years. 1:50 His parents were Polish…
24. Oral history interview with Ilse Diament
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.9 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0009
Date:
interview: 1983 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilse Diament, born in Krefeld, Germany in 1928, describes being one of five children; her family’s supermarket; attending a Jewish school in Stettin…
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 …@ushmm.org for further information about this collection Time-coded notes of the Interview with Ilse Diament December 4, 1983 1:17 Ilse was born in Germany…
25. Oral history interview with Ruth Fenton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.11 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0011
Date:
interview: 1984 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … Lodz. 12:00 August 1944 - She was with her mother and was going to be sent to work in Germany. She went on a 'cattle train,' she felt that something…
26. Oral history interview with Samuel Goetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.16 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0016
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 …, are transported to Cracow -Plaszow concentration camp. Felt abandoned, friendless. Then comes a 4-day train ride to Germany (Gross Rosen). (LG…
27. Oral history interview with Ludmila Page
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.46 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0046
Date:
interview: 1984 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germany from December 1945 to 1947; and immigrating to New York, NY where she and her husband had one daughter.…
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 … to Budapest, the to Czechoslovakia then to Munich. In Munich, husband organized educational sectors for children. They were in Germany from December…
28. Oral history interview with Jack Salzberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.48 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0048
Date:
interview: 1984 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for pneumonia; going to Weiden, Germany; hitchhiking home in July 1945; his wife’s experience escaping from a death march; getting married in February…
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 … mistake to a labor camp, a textile factory in eastern Germany, where she survived the war while the father was sent to Auschwitz. http://collections…
29. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.7 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0007
Date:
interview: 1985 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)…
30. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.8 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--Germany.…
31. Oral history interview with Ernest Lorge
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.43 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0043
Date:
interview: 1984 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)…
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 …/1916, left Germany to US 1936; Rabbinical studies; after ordination, joined the U.S. Army 69 th Infantry Division; Spring 1945, first American chaplain…
32. Oral history interview with Ruth Rontal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.47 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0047
Date:
interview: 1994 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Antisemitism in education--Germany.…
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 …/1920 Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, two sisters, parents from Austrian Empire, owned chain of stores; discussion on Esslingen’s Jewish life, included…
33. Oral history interview with Joseph Neumann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.51 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0051
Date:
interview: 1988 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… October 1944; hiding in a shed with two men near Dachau, Germany until the end of the war; being liberated by American troops; his reflections on the…
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 …. He had been from a city named Koblenz in Germany. The ruler of that city had given his family his name as a royal arms. 45:18 There were many suicides…
34. Oral history interview with Herbert Oppenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.53 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0053
Date:
interview: 1983 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herbert Oppenheimer, born on January 4, 1926 in Berlin, Germany, describes living with foster parents, who were Seventh-Day Adventists, from the time…
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 …Time-coded notes for Interview with Herbert Oppenheimer December 18, 1983 00:00:00 Mr. Oppenheimer was born on January 4, 1926 in Berlin, Germany. He…
35. Oral history interview with Hannelore Silverman, Sol Schindel, and several unnamed people
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.65 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0065
Date:
interview: 1983 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hannelore Silverman, born June 22, 1926 in Germany, describes her memories of 1938 when she was 12 years old; being sent on a Kindertransport via the…
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 …, father and mother in Germany. That's a misprint, they were not in Germany, they were in Reichstag. Then it says, "Stranded in Camp." It should read, father…
36. Oral history interview with Walter Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… uncles deciding to move the family to Stuttgart, Germany in 1936; attending an all Jewish school; the events on Kristallnacht, including the burning of the…
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 … were told that they had to go back to Germany, because their ship was not there yet. 0:34 So they went back to Cologne and were put up by a Jewish…
37. Oral history interview with Mark Weinberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.75 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0075
Date:
interview: 1991 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and bikes; going to Germany for work in the later 1930s and the Nazi propaganda; fighting the Germans as part of the second battalion and the quick…
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 … motorcycles and bikes. Q. When did you first see the Nazis? A. In 1937 my cousin and I went to Germany to buy merchandise. To buy a machine to make spikes for…
38. Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records
Document | Accession Number: 1989.1024 | RG Number: RG-22.013
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1961
…War criminals--Germany--History--20th century.…
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 …‐‐Germany‐‐History‐‐20th century. War crimes trials. Judicial proceedings‐‐Latvia‐‐1940‐1950. Judicial proceedings‐‐Estonia‐‐Tallinn‐‐1960‐1970. Holocaust…
39. Oral history interview with Fanny Federman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.7 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0007
Date:
interview: 1989 September 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… imprisoned because her cousins’ clandestine activities; being freed and reunited with three of her sisters; getting married and going to Dierdorf, Germany…
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 … collection 53:00 We wanted to go to Germany from Czechoslovakia. In Germany Rabbis from other countries had arrived and were giving out advice on how to get to…
40. Oral history interview with Samuel Gottesman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.10 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0010
Date:
interview: 1989 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the camp; being shaved and dunked in disinfectant; being put on a train three days later with his father and sent to Wolfsburg, Germany; performing…
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 … the middle. There was no easy way of escaping. Gross Rosen was in Germany. The Russians started moving in so there began an evacuation. 22:00 From…
41. Oral history interview with Albert Lewin and Fritz Othenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.19 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0019
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fritz Othenheimer describes his long lineage of German ancestors; living in Constance (Konstanz), Germany; how his parents owned a small menswear…
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 …- -CONTENTS- Fritz Othenheimer 01:30 Fritz explains his long lineage of German ancestors. Many of his family members served Germany in World War I, including…
42. Oral history interview with Robert Mendler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.22 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0022
Date:
interview: 1990 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… journey to Berlin, Germany in an open boxcar; how Czechs threw them bread from bridges during the trip; reverting to cannibalism on the dead bodies with the…
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 … American - born wife. He has no use for the Polish people today. He calls himself a Zionist - he is pro-Israel. He opposes the reunification of Germany…
43. Oral history interview with Jack Sittsamer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.28 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0028
Date:
interview: 1989 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; staying in a refugee camp for a month; staying in a tent city in Bologna, Italy; going to Germany; living with a friend in Eggenfelden, Germany until 1949…
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 … people were coming to this place and then Jack heard about a cousin who was alive in Germany and so Jack returned to Germany. :47:07 There he found an…
44. Oral history interview with Mark Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.30 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0030
Date:
interview: 1989 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his brother to Palestine for his university education; hosting two of his aunts after Germany began its expulsion of Jews; the family’s unsuccessful…
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 … Palestine. 0:09:50 Mark's father realized what was coming up when two aunts came to live with the Sterns after Germany began its expulsion of Jews. 0:10:27…
45. Oral history interview with Irene Sulzman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.31 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0031
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Frankfurt, Germany; working in General Eisenhower's headquarters as a translator; finding her father; being slightly ashamed of having an intact family…
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 … closer to Germany. 3:00 Lodz was an industrial city. Poland had little technology or industry so they invited Germans and German Jews to bring their…
46. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
…Dorothea Baumgart (1875-1957), was born Dorothea Lissner in Obrzycko, Poland and lived in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was…
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 … Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was confiscated by the Nazi regime in June 1943, and four days later she was deported to Theresienstadt…
47. Izak Rosenblat papers
2002.436.23 front
Document | Accession Number: 1990.139.27
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1990
…. In July of 1939, their son Max was born. Soon after, Germany invaded Poland and Radom was occupied by the Nazis. Izy’s house and shop was taken from…
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 … opened his own tailoring shop. In July of 1939, their son Max was born. Soon after, Germany invaded Poland and Radom was occupied by the Nazis. Izy…
48. Toby Stern papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.148 | RG Number: RG-10.162
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1955
… Landesamt für Wiedergutmachung, dated February 23,1950 at Nuremberg, Germany, stating that Tobi Stern applied for reparations from the German government; and…
49. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
50. Oral history interview with John Fink
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.247.1 | RG Number: RG-50.104.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 January
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… relating to the experiences of Alice Redlich and Hans Finke in Berlin, Germany, before and during the Holocaust and as relief workers in the Bergen-Belsen…