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1. Oral history interview with Fred Lubcher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.148.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0960
Date:
interview: 2018 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,940 rented by Jewish families? 508 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:32,810 I wouldn't know. 509 00:20:32,810 --> 00:20:33,590 You…
2. Oral history interview with Henry Birnbrey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.399.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0847
Date:
interview: 2015 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … with Henry so they only played together at night. Also, the family had to let the non-Jewish maid go. His mother suffered from an intestinal condition…
3. Oral history interview with Ava Schneck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.14 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0014
Date:
interview: 2014 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Jewish woman with the understanding that some proceeds would be sent to his family while they were in hiding; her father being taken to a forced labor camp…
4. Oral history interview with George Tobias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.40 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0040
Date:
interview: 1978 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … the other a Jewish family. I played with the boys of both families without any distinction – there was absolutely as far as I can remember no difference…
5. Oral history interview with Oscar Trief
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.124.1 | RG Number: RG-90.061.0001
Date:
interview: 1980
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … was the Vice President of L’Association Etudiants Juif (Association of Jewish Students). When he returned to Poland, he was “shocked” at his parents…
6. Oral history interview with Thomas Naegele
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.376.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1041
Date:
interview: 2019 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
7. Oral history interview with David Dattner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.63 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0063
Date:
interview: 1990 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being denied shelter by a Jewish family that knew David was Jewish; going back to Kraków and being there in 1942; having to wear armbands; his family…
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 … walked to the village. It was pitch dark. There was no light anymore. And I somehow got to a Jewish family and asked them you could stay overnight, you…
8. Oral history interview with Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1043
Date:
interview: 2019 August 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
9. Oral history interview with Debora Korolchuk Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.42.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1012
Date:
interview: 2019 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
10. Oral history interview with Ruth Geller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.222.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0671
Date:
interview: 2012 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Jewish teacher) https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection Her father decided that the family…
11. Oral history interview with Fedor Kuritzkes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.435.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0865
Date:
interview: 2015 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … of the patients were Jewish, some were born in Germany. Fedor was four years old when Hitler came to power. The family was conscious they were Jewish…
12. Oral history interview with Richard Schifter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.80 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0080
Date:
interview: 1980 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
13. Oral history interview with Raymonde Fiol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.443.2 | RG Number: RG-90.105.0002
Date:
interview: 2015 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Survivors Group of Southern Nevada. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Fiol was hidden by a Christian family of Resistance…
14. Oral history interview with Sam Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.4 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1068
Date:
interview: 2020 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
15. Oral history interview with Jacques Lipetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.115 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0115
Date:
interview: 1988 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jacques Lipetz, born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1932, describes being educated at a Jewish school; his family’s flight through France to Marseille in May…
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 … Nazi family. Jacques describes conditions in Manila towards the end of the war and liberation by Americans. Jewish chaplains held a Passover Seder for…
16. Oral history interview with Avrum Bichler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.17 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0017
Date:
interview: 2015 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dr. Avrum (Abraham) Bichler, born February 23, 1933, discusses growing up in well-to-do Jewish family in Krylow, Poland; family’s charitable…
17. Oral history interview with Martha Eckstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.96 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0096
Date:
interview: 1988 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Bronx. In 1939 family began their escape, leaving with the possessions that fit in their car. She recalls being fearful of bombings as they traveled. At…
18. Oral history interview with Erika Tamar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.437.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0863
Date:
interview: 2015 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Austria, they would go to the US under one quota and her parents under the Polish quota. They left family in Poland. Erika’s mother was from Schemas…
19. Oral history interview with Grete Hirsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.509.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0258
Date:
interview: 2016 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… older brother Hans and younger sister Ursula; playing the violin; having Jewish and non-Jewish friends; the family being assimilated and secular…
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 …: Gymnasium. A: Yeah. You didn’t have Jewish holidays like we do here now. Q: You stayed by yourself with your aunt, while the rest of your family went to…
20. Oral history interview with Ulrich Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.91 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0091
Date:
interview: 1988 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
21. Oral history interview with Ruth Feigenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.194.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1031
Date:
interview: 2019 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 …,220 --> 00:03:04,730 They certainly did. 67 00:03:04,730 --> 00:03:10,460 And had your family, from both sides 68 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:15,218 of the family…
22. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.443.1 | RG Number: RG-90.105.0001
Date:
interview: 2016 March 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Jewish woman, didn't want to leave her family. So he went back and he blew it all when he got hoodwinked. That's unfortunate, isn't it? The circumstances…
23. 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…
24. Oral history interview with Helen Rosenwald Stahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.156.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0968
Date:
interview: 2018 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
25. Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.360.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1975
…Jewish families--Germany.…
26. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee Germany, and pre-war and wartime photographs of…
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 … Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee…
27. Bea Kandell transcripts
2014.328.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2014.328.1
Date:
inclusive: 2013-2014
…Jewish families--Germany.…
28. 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…
29. Martha Bernstein collection
1994.A.0114 Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0114
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Martha (Heumann) Bernstein was born in 1902 in Benrath, Germany to a Jewish family. Martha's family and the family of her youngest sister, Helene…
30. Oral history interview with Carla "Carol" Holtz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.24.1 | RG Number: RG-90.123.0001
Date:
interview: 2019
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Germany.…
31. Paula Abelow collection
2008.111.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.111.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1957
bulk: 1923-1948
…Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.…
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 … Republic‐‐Prague. Jewish families‐‐Czechoslovakia. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jews‐‐Czech Republic. United States‐‐Emigration and immigration‐‐History‐‐20…
32. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.71 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0071
Date:
interview: 1996 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--United States.…
33. Oral history interview with Ruth Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.378 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0378
Date:
interview: 1993 May 14
interview: 1993 July 22
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…
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 … was Ruth Elizabeth Weiss. would 19 like to say something about that. 20 In Germany Jewish families or maybe 21 the-- not the very Orthodox but the ones…
34. 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…
35. Oral history interview with Al Jaffee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.106.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0878
Date:
interview: 2016 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Georgia--Savannah.…
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 … street or they will take your shoes. 65:00 The family stayed in a Jewish area in Lithuania. Some gentiles may have lived there as well as Jews. It was not…
36. Black robe used by a Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi for everyday services
1990.245.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.15 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
…Jewish families--Hungary.…
37. Oral history interview with Stanley Kiersnowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.349.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0737
Date:
interview: 2014 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish community in Wilno; his childhood; the arrival of the Soviets; his family’s deportation in June 1941 and separation from his father; the three-week…
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 …. They had a good life and suddenly they were arrested and the people kneeled down when they saw his family. Polish Communists, Jewish officers and two…
38. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
…Jewish families--Hungary.…
39. Oral history interview with Matilde Neuwirt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0194
Date:
interview: 2011 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… home; her family’s upper-middle class lifestyle; her schooling at both a public and a Jewish school; the lack of apprehension she felt in the pre-war…
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 … Senora [PERSONAL NAME]. 447 00:22:07,530 --> 00:22:09,630 And were there other Jewish families 448 00:22:09,630 --> 00:22:12,360 that you knew that stayed…
40. Striped tallit worn by two Hungarian rabbis
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 b
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… of the Jewish community in Budapest. At their invitation, the family moved to Budapest in 1905 and changed their last name to Hevesi. Simon became a…
41. Oral history interview with Lore Odenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.985 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0985
Date:
interview: 2004 August 04
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…
42. Oral history interview with Lore Zutraun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.387 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0387
Date:
interview: 2001 May 16
interview: 2002 November 13
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…
43. Monogrammed silver ladle brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.4
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: after 1800-before 1888
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
44. Oral history interview with Kurt Stevens
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.369 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0369
Date:
interview: 1993 March 17
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…
45. Komjadi commemorative medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family
1990.245.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.3
Date:
issue: 1934
…Komjadi commemorative medal owned by a Hungarian Jewish family…
46. Monogrammed dinner knife brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.5
Date:
emigration: 1939
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
47. 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…
48. Oral history interview with Hannah Stein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.32.1 | RG Number: RG-50.777.0001
Date:
interview: 2013 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
49. 1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany
2014.468.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.468.2
Date:
issue: 1918 September 04-1920 January
…1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany…
50. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0525
Date:
interview: 2015 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, 1943. Jewish fighters faced overwhelmingly superior forces of the Germans but were able to hold them off for a month. Estelle and her family were hiding…