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1. Oral history interview with Lisa Tyre
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.124 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0124
Date:
interview: 1981 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lisa Tyre, born February 1, 1929 in Vienna, Austria, describes growing up in an assimilated Jewish family; her father, who was an attorney and served…
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 … Collection D 810 J4 G7 No. 19 No restrictions SUMMARY Lisa Tyre was born February 1, 1929 in Vienna, Austria into an assimilated Jewish family. Her father, an…
2. Pink baby bonnet with embroidered eyelets
2000.617.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.617.5
…Jewish families.…
3. Quartz whetstone used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_c front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 c
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead. Max was taken in by non-Jewish family friends for a few days, until he could…
4. Adam Gicz collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.364
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1974
…Jewish families.…
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 … the NKVD offices in Smolensk; dated: June 7, 1943; location: Lvov, Poland; in Polish 2. Newspaper; three pages of a Jewish newspaper published in Lower…
5. Oral history interview with Heimek Schmelz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.14.1 | RG Number: RG-90.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1970
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
6. Razor used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.7_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 b
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead. Max was taken in by non-Jewish family friends for a few days, until he could…
7. Oral history interview with Esther R. Starobin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0192
Date:
interview: 2006 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
8. 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…
9. Oral history interview with Hanna Zwang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.82 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0082
Date:
interview: 1986 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
10. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0170
Date:
interview: 2005 August 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
11. Oral History interview with Lilly Gottlieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.34 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0034
Date:
interview: 1989 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 …:04:55,660 --> 00:04:57,970 I came from a very Jewish family. 80 00:04:57,970 --> 00:05:01,630 Many people in Vienna Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
12. Oral history interview with Marion H. Reet
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.468 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0468
Date:
interview: 1989 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … many Jewish and gentile friends in and out of school before Hitler. Reet emphasized that the effects on her family of Nazi power grew little by little…
13. Oral history interview with Rita Rubinstein
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0630
Date:
interview: 2017 August 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … town. But we were very fortunate. A Jewish family was forced to take us in. Many people didn't have a roof over their heads, where to go. They were a…
14. Oral history interview with Tina Pardo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.65 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0065
Date:
interview: 2011 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; life changing once the war began; her father’s strategy to avoid losing their home because they were Jewish; her family preparing to leave their home and…
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 … entry for being Jewish. (The Pardo family appeared as “with no country”.) They went to Uruguay. Tina managed to acclimatize and adapt, but the parents…
15. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0031
Date:
interview: 2001 March 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
16. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0436
Date:
interview: 2013 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Yiddish newspaper and here we see a photo of Michel's father's press card. In 1940, when the Germans invaded Belgium, Michel and his family fled to the…
17. Mechanical pencil used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.8
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
… to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead. Max was taken in by non-Jewish family friends for a few days, until he could…
18. Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0004
Date:
interview: 2000 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
19. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0133
Date:
interview: 2004 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
20. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.31.1 | RG Number: RG-90.040.0001
Date:
interview: 2004 April
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … for a family history project. This is the first and only time he discussed his experiences at length. He discusses living in Lodz when the war broke out…
21. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0387
Date:
interview: 2012 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Kroners. The German families could no longer pay tuition, forcing the school to close. The Swedish Jewish community offered to keep the children in…
22. Oral history interview with Paul Tandler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.933 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0934
Date:
interview: 2004 May 05
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…
23. Oral history interview with Leizor Kalowski and Sonia Kalowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.16.1 | RG Number: RG-90.114.0001
Date:
interview: 2005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … the support of HIAS. The family departed on May 13 from Bremerhaven, Germany on a US troop ship called the USNS Sturgis. It took two stormy weeks to…
24. Oral history interview with Miguel Kandin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.16 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0016
Date:
interview: 1986 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Kandin was born in 1922, on a ship that was sailing from Russia to Palestine. The family lived in Tel Aviv until shortly after the Arab‐Jewish…
25. Oral history interview with Helga Franks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.19 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Jewish books with them -- the rest of the family bringing only most favorite possessions -- the rest to be left behind. Knew to expect some trouble at the…
26. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0249
Date:
interview: 2009 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
27. 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.…
28. 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.…
29. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
…Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding…
30. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0402
Date:
interview: 2012 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 …, Bótrágy, located in Subcarpathian Rus, came under Hungarian rule. Hungarian authorities banned Jews from attending school, confiscated Jewish businesses…
31. Oral history interview with Helena Hammershmash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.61 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0061
Date:
interview: 1991 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 …. Father exported wood. Describes her childhood in a religious, well-to-do family. 1.07 Jewish education. 1.09 Moved to Turka at age 8, learned languages…
32. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0719
Date:
interview: 2006 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
33. 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…
34. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0514
Date:
interview: 2015 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
35. 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…
36. Oral history interview with Harry Farbenblum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.15 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0015
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewish families.…
37. Oral history interview with Ursula Becher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … only child of a well-to-do family. She was harassed by gentile students during the early 1930s until her transfer to a private Jewish school. After…
38. 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…
39. Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family
2018.613.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.7
Date:
manufacture: after 1871
use: after 1931
…Jewish families.…
40. 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…
41. Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0216
Date:
interview: 2008 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
42. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.26 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0026
Date:
interview: 1992 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Jewish, her mother felt you should be proud of it. 1:06:51 Halina's father's family was very religious and her only memory of a synagogue was when her…
43. 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.…
44. Oral history interview with Rodi Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.20 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0020
Date:
interview: 1991 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
45. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
… took Irene instead. Max was taken in by non-Jewish family friends for a few days, until he could reunite with his parents. Irene was taken to a…
46. Oral history interview with Charlotte Gal, Albert Gal, and Regina Gal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0458.5 | RG Number: RG-50.413.0005
Date:
interview: 1994 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
47. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0595
Date:
interview: 2017 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 …. Bob Behr: Yeah. My -- in 1942 my family, the Gestapo became and arrested all of us. It's a very -- they didn't come because we were Jewish. That's not…
48. 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…
49. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… remained in Aachen until February 1934. The family moved into an apartment just south of the city, in an area with many Jewish immigrants from Germany and…
50. 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.…