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1. Oral history interview with Munci Katz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.29 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0029
Date:
interview: 1984 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; the death of her father, stepmother, and two sisters; being selected with her sister to go to a work camp in Geistlingersteiger, Germany; being the…
2. Oral history interview with Philip Solomon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.21 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0021
Date:
interview: 1987 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Landsberg concentration camp on April 28, 1945; his unit’s arrival in Germany in February/March 1945 and their military mission; their lack of knowledge of…
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 … Reconnaissance Squadron Mechanized, which liberated the Landsberg concentration camp on April 28, 1945. He describes his unit’s arrival in Germany in February…
3. Heinz Dieter Menge papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.662.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2002
…Heinz Dieter Menge was born on September 13, 1919 in the Ilten district of Sehnde, Germany, near Hannover. During World War II he was a German…
4. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… synagogue; attending boarding schools in Germany and the United Kingdom; seeing the anti-Jewish signs in Germany; getting married in January 1934 to Yves…
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 … Paris. Fink went to a private lycee and to boarding schools in Germany and the UK. Saw signs in Germany re “no Jews allowed” in thirties. Married 1/31/34…
5. Oral history interview with Sol Sloan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.53 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0053
Date:
interview: 1989 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)…
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 …, before we go to across the border from Hungary to Vienna, Germany, one Hungarian had enough nerve come in with a plate. And we should give him the gold and…
6. Oral history interview with Karessa (Kay) Foldvary
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.37 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0037
Date:
interview: 1989 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… temporarily then 116th Evacuation Hospital) in France and Germany from November 1944 until spring 1945; how beginning May 2, 1945, she moved with the American…
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 … hospitals in France and Germany, from November, 1944 until spring, 1945. On May 2, 1945, she moved with the American 7th Army to Dachau Concentration camp…
7. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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8. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers
2012.454.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 42
Document | Accession Number: 2012.454.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1956
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
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 … 1938‐1956) Accession number: 2012.454.1 Creator: Rauch, Ruth Danzig (Munich :Germany) Extent: 12 folders Repository: United States…
9. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… 1939 Edith and her mother were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto in Vienna. In April 1941 she was sent to a farm in Osterburg, Germany where she was…
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 … Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of…
10. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
…Theodor Wilhelm Kleinsorge (1896-1945) was born on 13 May 1896 in Laßbruch, Germany to Hermann (1867-1926) and Anna Elise (née Schmidt, b. 1870…
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 … arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non‐Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau…
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11. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
12. Oral history interview with William Levine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.40 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0040
Date:
interview: 1984 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1943 after going to officer candidate school; going to England; going through France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany; being part of the third, the ninth…
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 … followed normal tract of combat forces though France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. I was part of the third, the ninth and later the seventh army in Germany…
13. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.28
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Moosburg
…Consists of liberator testimonies relating to the liberation of Stalag VIIA, a prisonersof war camp near Moosburg an der Isar, Germany. The…
14. Oral history interview with William Sanders
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1769 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1769
Date:
interview: 1982 February 07-1982 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…William Sanders discusses his experiences with the US Army 45th Division, 157th Infantry; his unit's arrival in the town of Dachau, Germany on April…
15. Edmund Schechter papers
1999.A.0276 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0276
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1995
… an American‐ controlled radio station in Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS). He returned to the United States briefly in 1946 and obtained…
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 … German Radio Operations of the United States High Commissioner in Germany (HICOG); Schechter’s defense against claims made during hearings by the Senate…
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16. Dorothea Dressel collection
1995.A.0186 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0186
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1986
bulk: 1930-1947
… World War I, he was severely wounded, and returned to Munich. Following the war, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and was…
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 … Party of Germany (KPD), and was active politically, serving as a district leader for the party in southern Bavaria, and eventually serving as chair of…
17. Gerard Moss collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2013
… and letter related to the experiences of Dr. Maurice Schweizer of Euskirchen, Germany. Dr. Schweizer was imprisoned in Westerbork, then Bergen-Belsen…
18. Oral history interview with Ernest Josef Gans
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.307.1 | RG Number: RG-50.889.0001
Date:
interview: 1977-1979
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ernest Josef Gans (born in 1892) describes his early life in Weimar, Germany; attending a university before World War I began; being part of a Jewish…
19. Oral history interview with Hideo Nakamine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.23 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0023
Date:
interview: 1987 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… into Germany at the end of the war; how the first camp he saw was in Bad Tölz, Germany; seeing approximately 5,000 prisoners being marched away from…
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 … fought in Italy and in France but at the end of the war he went into Germany. 0:03:29 The first camp he saw was Bad T¢lz. He saw about 5,000 prisoners…
20. Postcard and newspaper article relating to Kristallnacht
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0021 | RG Number: RG-10.104
Date:
1938-1988
… Chamberlain at Munich, Germany on 29 September 1938. The postcard, which shows images of Hitler, Mussolini, and Chamberlain, has the legend "Zur historischen…