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1. Oral history interview with Emanuel Mandel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0321 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0147
Date:
interview: 1989 June 23
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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 … when Hitler came to power? A:Well, "Hitler came to power" needs to be addressed in terms of when - whether when he came to power in Germany, or as his…
2. Oral history interview with Steven Springfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.370.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0220
Date:
interview: 1990 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her; moving to Berlin, Germany with his wife and brother; and applying for a visa and immigrating to the United States on March 10, 1947.…
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 … capitalists. They had large business and all that. And that took all of 1940 until 1941. we had heard, we had heard already about things transpiring in Germany…
3. War crimes case of Viktor Bernhard Arajs
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0041 | RG Number: RG-06.009.03
…Hamburg (Germany)…
4. Oral history interview with Walter Lachman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.64 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0064
Date:
interview: 1992 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Lachman (b. Wolfgang Louis Lachman), born May 26, 1928, discusses his family background and comfortable childhood in Berlin, Germany; his…
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 … when Germany agitated for the return of the Saar provinces back to Germany and we had to sing a special song for the return of the Saar -- the coal…
5. Oral history interview with Susan Taube
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.28 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0028
Date:
interview: 1993 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Susan Taube, born in Vacha, Germany, on January 9, 1926, discusses her family life; pre-war antisemitism; going to Frankfurt, Germany to attend a…
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 … Taube, Susan RG-50.029*0028 1 Videocassette March 7, 1993 Abstract: Susan Taube was born in Vacha, Germany on January 9, 1926. She moved to…
6. Ingeborg B. Weinberger papers
1993.A.0004 Box 1 004 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0004 | RG Number: RG-14.008
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1959
…Ingeborg Bertha Weinberger (née Cohn,1920-2013) was born in Leipzig, Germany to Charlotte and Ludwig Cohn. Her father was a World War I veteran and…
7. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei. Einsatzgruppe A. Germany. Geheime Staatspoliz World War…
8. Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) (Fond 1401)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.21 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.21
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1942
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … collect and remove to Germany cultural material, and to conduct propaganda against Jews and Freemasons. Included are lists of confiscated Jewish property…
9. Oral history interview with Werner Sauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.46 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0046
Date:
interview: 1984 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Sauer, born in 1918 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, describes the Jewish population of Gelsenkirchen; his family considering themselves German and…
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 … Germany. He was born in the western part of Germany, in the Rhine-Ruhr area, was brought up as a child in very high status. And from Germany, he was taken…
10. Oral history interview with Gertrude Sonnenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.50 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0050
Date:
interview: 1989 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gertrude Sonnenberg, born on February 1, 1919 in Hausberge (Hausberge an der Porta), Germany, begins the interview by showing a photograph of herself…
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 … bit of Germany, where I was born, 48 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,310 and I tell you about-- 49 00:03:08,310 --> 00:03:12,200 Contact reference@ushmm…
11. Oral history interview with Vera Oppenheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.29 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0029
Date:
interview: 1977 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vera Oppenheim, born in 1924, discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; attending public schools until her expulsion; leaving for Switzerland with…
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 … in the Jewish school, do you remember any conversations about the problems of the Nazis? A: You see we were too young. Nothing was discussed in Germany…
12. Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0180 | RG Number: RG-02.121
Date:
1991
Subtitle:
Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof
… a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and…
13. Concentration camp uniform dress with number 94593 worn by a German Jewish inmate
1994.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.24.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 January
…Hanna (Hannah) Henrietta Lenschitzki was born on November 6, 1922, in Halberstadt, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Paul and Rosa Beermann…
14. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…Hermann David Naidorf was born in Gelsenkirchen (Horst-Emscher) in Westphalia, Germany, on June 3, 1925, the only child of Simon Arie and Frieda…
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 … (1925‐ ) was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to Simon and Frieda Naidorf. His family owned a clothing business, while Herman attended school amidst a…
15. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man
1994.115.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.115.1
Date:
use: 1945 January-1945 March
…Werner Michaelis Sauer was born on November 2, 1918, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Leopold and Auguste Rothschild Sauer. Werner had…
16. White patch with prisoner number 82609 worn by German Jewish inmate
1995.A.0274.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0274.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1945 May
…Hermann David Naidorf was born in Gelsenkirchen (Horst-Emscher) in Westphalia, Germany, on June 3, 1925, the only child of Simon Arie and Frieda…
17. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
18. Oral history interview with Max Metzger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.420 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0420
Date:
interview: 1981 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Metzger, born in 1903 in Gross-Reken (Westfalen), Germany, discusses moving in 1911 to Dorsten, Germany; attending school; becoming a cattle…
19. Oral history interview with Hanna Marx
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.739 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0739
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hanna Marx, born on September 19, 1928 in Hamm (Westphalia), Germany, discusses Kristallnacht; her father’s internment in Buchenwald concentration…
20. Oral history interview with Irv Rosin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.785 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0785
Date:
interview: 1985 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Mallersdorf, Germany; and immigrating to the United States on September 21, 1947.…
21. Oral history interview with Eva Wollenberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.860 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0860
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Wollenberger (née Stein), born on June 1, 1931 in Dresden, Germany, discusses her well-to-do merchant family; being deported to Riga, Lativa with…
22. Oral history interview with Trude Meyer and Jenny Thompson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.525 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0525
Date:
interview: 2002 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews describe Ms. Meyer's childhood in Fronhausen, Germany, including her experiences with antisemitism and the Nuremberg Laws. She…
23. Oral history interview with Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1445 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1445
Date:
interview: 1983 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lewis Schloss discusses being deported from his hometown in Germany to the ghetto in Riga, Latvia in 1941; the work he performed; the benefits he…
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 … is Trudy Schloss. was born March 1924 in Frutshiem Southern Germany. 10 LEWIS SCHLOSS My name is Lewis Schloss. was born May 20 1921. was born in Gos…
24. Oral history interview with Rachel Bielicka Gurdus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0182 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0400
Date:
interview: 1999 August 16
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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 …, it’s a very bi -- it was a very big fluence from Germany. Q: ’37 and ’38? A: And -- yes, yes. Q: Mm-hm. A: And then in ’39, Poland was divided, and…
25. Oral history interview with Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stayed from August 1944 to March 1945; going on a death march; her liberation in Lauenburg, Germany on March 10, 1945 by the Russian Army; and her…
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 … unhappy with it. And fer -- we had books at home, books of -- books which described the situation in Germany after Hitler come -- came to power. It was…
26. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
…Fritz Weinschenk (1920-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany but left in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. He volunteered for the U.S. Army immediately…
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 … assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The case files contain correspondence, witness lists and testimony…
27. Oral history interview with Kurt Meyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.43 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0043
Date:
interview: 2004 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
28. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
29. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
…. Around this time, the Soviets transported Ber’s family to Riga. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and entered Riga on July 1. In August, the…
30. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… his mother in Berlin in May 1946 and left Germany for New York on the American troop carrier “Marine Perch” in February 1947. A resident of New York…
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 …, Germany, fall 1945. 2. Photograph of a Chris Lerman standing outside, two soldiers and a man walking behind her, a car is seen parked on the street, a…
31. Text only poster for a musical performance in prewar Riga
2005.567.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1937 January
Artwork Title:
Heifecs Mandolin Orchestra Concert
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
32. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.3
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
33. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
34. Pin issued to a camp survivor with Buchenwald memorial Bell Tower and flags
2005.567.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 11
received: 1969
…, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia and made Riga the capital of the Latvian SSR. In the spring of 1941, Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet…
35. Oral history interview with Ludwig Shonberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.53 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0053
Date:
interview: 1989 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
36. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
37. Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3
Date:
use: 1944 August 16-1945 April 11
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, the country was occupied by German forces. On July 1, 1942, Grunia was forced into the newly formed…
38. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…
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 …) and Mendel (1933-1941). In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was…
39. Poster for a literary music concert in a displaced persons camp saved by a Jewish Latvian musician
2006.133.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.5
Date:
creation: after 1945-before 1950
Title:
In Hebrew characters - A Literary Music Concert: Two Hours in this World
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…
40. "A Brief History of the Moller Family During the Nazi Era, 1933-1945, and Beyond"
2007.321 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2007.321
Date:
2006
… in Bochum, Germany, through the socialist movement in Bochum. They married in 1926, and had two sons, Levi Willi (1927-2006) and Ruben Horst (1929…
41. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
2009.297.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2
Date:
use: after 1949-1985 August 15
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…
42. Oral history interview with Gertrude Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.22 | RG Number: RG-50.613.0001
Date:
interview: 2006 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
43. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp
2012.310.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.310.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1944 December 27
… illness, Fruma died of tuberculosis in 1939. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. A few weeks later, in accordance with the German-Soviet Pact…
44. Oral history interview with Isaac Mischkinsky and Bella Mischkinsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.269.1 | RG Number: RG-50.735.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 1975
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from Riga to other camps; being imprisoned in Germany; their arduous path to liberation; working with the HIAS in Europe after the liberation…
45. Sigi Ziering memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2013.300.1
Date:
creation: 1945 June 24
…Siegfried "Sigi" Ziering (1928-2000) was born in Kassel, Germany, the son of Isaac Ziering, a clothing merchant from Poland, and his wife Cilly…
46. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar
2013.474.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.2
Date:
use: 1947 October-1947 November
… into the Soviet army. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. On July 4, the Germans grabbed Jewish men off the street and forced them to light the…
47. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto
2013.474.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942
… into the Soviet army. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. On July 4, the Germans grabbed Jewish men off the street and forced them to light the…
48. Oral history interview with Hannah Rath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.21 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0021
Date:
interview: 2005 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hannah Lenschitzki Rath, born in 1922 and raised in Halberstadt, Germany, describes the large Jewish community in her small town; her family and the…
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 … 14, 2005 Holocaust Survivor • Born in 1922 and raised in a small town in Germany • In 1938, synagogues burned and Jewish businesses looted on…
49. Oral history interview with Sasha Semenoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.15 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0015
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
50. Oral history interview with Magda Herskowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.230.1 | RG Number: RG-50.940.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persons camp in Germany for one year; immigrating to Israel, where they lived in barracks; her husband’s service in the army, after which he become a…
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 … weeks by foot, from Germany to Poland, from Poland to Hungary and to Romania. On the roads I also suffered hunger and cold. Nobody wanted to let us into…