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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 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…
3. 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.…
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 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
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. 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…
11. 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.…
12. 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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13. 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…
14. 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.…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Black fetal horse fur coat collar with tear drop ends brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Black fetal horse fur coat collar with tear drop ends brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
19. White silk handkerchief with a drawing of 2 women on horseback brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.38
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
creation: approximately 1925
…White silk handkerchief with a drawing of 2 women on horseback brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
20. 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…
21. Parker Lucky Curve duofold fountain pen used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.22
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
22. Thermometer with silver case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.13_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.13 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
23. 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.…
24. 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…
25. 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…
26. Child's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.27
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
…Child's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
27. 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.…
28. E. Wedel candy tin received in a displaced persons camp
2008.228.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.14
Date:
manufacture: 1945
use: 1945-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
29. Rozia Topor memoir
2008.257.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.257.1
Date:
inclusive: 1994
… younger brother, Moniek (1934). The Topor family was one of only a handful of Jewish families in town, and from the outset of World War II, suffered much…
30. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family…
31. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.4
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
32. 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.…
33. Orange tablecloth with green flowers used in the Warsaw ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.7
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
34. 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…
35. Black fetal horse fur coat collar with black satin lining brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Black fetal horse fur coat collar with black satin lining brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
36. Peach silk handkerchief hand embroidered with ribbons and flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.39 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.39
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Peach silk handkerchief hand embroidered with ribbons and flowers brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
37. White square cotton pillowcase with a cutwork border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.42
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1926
…White square cotton pillowcase with a cutwork border brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
38. Metal soup canteen used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.20
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
39. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.803 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0803
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
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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 …, Jewish, from the ghetto. And that he, my-- the friend of the family trying to save us from the Germans so we wouldn't be killed. She knew that. And he…
40. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.211 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0211
Date:
interview: 1993 December 03
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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 … always the the outsider would just stand there and would always the finger was always pointed at me. SANDRA Were there no other Jewish families in the town…
41. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.92 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0092
Date:
interview: 1998 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--United States.…
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 … policeman, a Jewish policeman, and he walked back and forth. I met him and I knew that he is going, so I asked him to find out about this family. So after two…
42. 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…
43. 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…
44. 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…
45. Child's colorful print cotton dress with blue piping brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.23
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Child's colorful print cotton dress with blue piping brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
46. Child's silk Peter Pan collar with embroidered blue dots brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.16_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.16
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Child's silk Peter Pan collar with embroidered blue dots brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
47. 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…
48. 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…
49. Red and brown fox fur wrap brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.11
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Red and brown fox fur wrap brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
50. Child's cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.15
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
…Child's cotton twill collar with embroidered daisies brought to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…