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1. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
2. Oral history interview with Phyllis Thompson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1801 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1801
Date:
interview: 1980 December 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transfer with her sister to an unnamed labor camp in Germany in December 1944; the work she performed as a maid and the conditions there; liberation by the…
3. Oral history interview with Anna Post
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.49 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0049
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … culture and the civilization, and the high arts which were in Germany were never permitted. So we should be heard. However, since it turned in a different…
4. Oral history interview with Ben Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1364 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1364
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
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.…
5. Oral history interview with Solomon Cukier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.10 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0010
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps in Germany from 1946 to 1949; his children; immigrating to the United States; and his life in the US.…
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 … business, have been heavily involved and hurt because of that boycott that started from Germany not to do business with Jewish businessmen, metal business in…
6. Oral history interview with Doris Fuchs Greenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0086
Date:
interview: 1990 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work; the Russian troops liberating her in May 1945 at the farm; going to Berlin, Germany and then Bergen-Belsen after the war as a displaced person…
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 … in the northern part of Germany near Rostock. I was in Külingsborn, and she was in Bornhagen. And we were there until May, I think, 5. We were…
7. Oral history interview with Sara Gelender
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.71 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0071
Date:
interview: 1992 June 25
interview: 1992 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism they encountered in Poland; escaping to Czechoslovakia, Vienna, and then to a displaced persons camp in Germany; moving to Paris, France, where they…
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 …,090 --> 00:02:48,500 OK. 33 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,400 So that was September 1939. 34 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,670 And Germany invaded Poland. 35 00:02:55…
8. Oral history interview with Josef Garlinski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.14 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0014
Date:
interview: 1989 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
9. Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.4 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0004
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany; getting married in Germany to another Holocaust survivor; living in Israel and helping to smuggle people in to Israel; immigrating to the United…
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 … experience in this camp, was there were a lot of Jewish people with us, kids from Germany, where they have to leave. I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but in…
10. Oral history interview with Jurek Kestenberg
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.9 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0009
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Children's songs--Germany.…
11. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Germany. In June of 1944 the train pulled up. And we wound up in a very famous camp of…
12. Oral history interview with Isak Lips
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.162 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0162
Date:
interview: 1991 February 25
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.…
13. Oral history interview with Yolanda Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.175 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0175
Date:
interview: 1991
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.…
14. Oral history interview with Adam Starkopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0299 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0046
Date:
interview: 1999 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Germany; staying in the Feldafing displaced persons camp; immigrating to the United States; his life in Chicago, IL; his post-war family life; his…
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 … as Roman Catholics; liberation by Russian forces; escaping Communism and going to the American zone in Germany; staying in the displaced persons camp…
15. Oral history interview with Rena Zabielak and Tauba Biber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1610 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1610
Date:
interview: 1981 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
16. Mojsze Kisielnicki memoir
Document | RG Number: RG-02.067.01
…Germany. Gestapo…
17. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
18. Oral history interview with Sigmund Werner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.186 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0186
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
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.…
19. Oral history interview with Helena Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.147 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0147
Date:
interview: 1991 August 08
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.…
20. Oral history interview with Joseph Kutrzeba
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0328
Date:
interview: 1995 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation in Erfurt, Germany by the United States Army; struggling with his religious beliefs after the war; and immigrating to the United States, where he…
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 … people in Germany. It is perhaps the most cultured nation in Europe. He always looked up to them. He was a Germanophile. In '37 or '38 I saw his forehead…
21. Oral history interview with Martin Travis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1382
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
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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 … even President 25 Roosevelt didnt do for us nothing. 1500 Jews from Germany they tried to come to this country to liberate to have freedom they have no…
22. Oral history interview with Edward Linson
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0060
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; getting married in Germany; and immigrating to the United States.…
23. Oral history interview with Jack Baum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0424
Date:
interview: 1995 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by a Kapo; developing friendships in the camps; being liberated from Buchenwald in 1945; being sent by the 7th Army to Landsberg am Lech, Germany…
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 … to play with different kinds of teams. Q. Tell me, how much did you know about Hitler and what was going on in Germany before the Germans occupied…
24. Oral history interview with Noah Roitman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0065 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0115
Date:
interview: 1999 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … , helped Jews to Czechoslovakia, captured and jailed, escaped to Lodz Met wife,went to Germany, France, sailed to Israel but forced to Cyprus for 3-4 months…
25. Oral history interview with Sevek Fishman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.26 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0026
Date:
interview: 1992 May 12
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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 … come in, what is going to be. It’s a fact that the Germans already took Poland, it was divided Poland by the book, between Russia and Germany. The…
26. Oral history interview with Emanuel Tanay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.27 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0027
Date:
interview: 1992 February 24
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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 …'re going to come uh, into real war, and quickly defeat Germany. So, all along, there is the notion, we can somehow make it, and when the uh, you know, when…
27. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
… with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped publish…
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 … fought with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped…
28. Oral history interview with Pola Nirenska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.98 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0098
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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 … that she did not feel was true to her style. At one point, she went to Munich to do percussion. She toured Germany and the United States, where, she said…
29. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
30. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 …:01:07,340 Sometimes, this town was Germany. 20 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,220 Sometimes, it was Poland. 21 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,810 Now, it's just…
31. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
32. Oral history interview with Rose Kamin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.137.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0210
Date:
interview: 2013 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 …: This is June of 41, when Germany attacked Russia, yeah. A: And the train took us to Ural Mountains very, very far. This is, was like a dream, a village…
33. Oral history interview with Regina Schuldiener
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.176 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0176
Date:
interview: 1990 November 01
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.…
34. Oral history interview with Bronislaw Durewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.11 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp Bergen-Belsen; seeing a partially sunken ship in Bremerhaven, Germany after liberation; being in a displaced persons camp in Germany and…
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 … the Polish army will throw them back again to Germany. So we were hoping. That's why. Many millions of the people were escaping, because they had the…
35. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… Poles and were put on a crowded cattle train with no food or water. On October 2, Regina and Halina arrived at a labor camp near Leipzig, Germany. They…
36. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…
37. Oral history interview with Ignace Speiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.37 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0037
Date:
interview: 1987 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Lübeck, Germany and being taken by the Red Cross to Sweden; the conditions on the train and the deaths during the journey; and his tattoo.…
38. Oral history interview with Renata Skotnicka-Zajdman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.33.1 | RG Number: RG-90.163.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish refugees--Germany.…
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 …. Mhm. And so if we go back in our minds to the 1930s, the periods after Hitler had taken power in Germany in 1933 and you're growing up, what we have is…
39. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2013.465.1
Date:
found: before 1945 May
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
40. Oral history interview with Bernard Stone
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.370 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0370
Date:
interview: 2000 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the war and the conditions there; his life after the war; his medical education in Munich, Germany; his marriage in 1948; his immigration to the United…
41. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
42. Office of the US Chief of Counsel records relating to defendant Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Document | Accession Number: 1985.A.0007 | RG Number: RG-06.002.04
…,000,000 Dutchmen to Germany for labor and 117,000 Dutch Jews to the east. Arrested by Canadian troops in May 1945, Seyss-Inquart was convicted by the International…
43. Oral history interview with Helen Greenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.4 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; getting married and having a son in Berlin, Germany; moving to the United States in 1948 and settling in New York.…
44. Oral history interview with Roman Curtis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.140 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0140
Date:
interview: 1989 January 04
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.…
45. 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
…; moving with her mother and sister to Bavaria, Germany in August 1945 and living there until 1947; immigrating as a family to the United States; and joining…
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 … were just 10 when World War II began with Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Before we turn to all that would happen to you and your…
46. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
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 … Göppingen, Germany, and depictions of Regina and Halina’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946. Languages: Polish, English…
47. Rachela Rottenberg papers
1999.25 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.25
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
…Rachela Rottenberg (1920-1995) was born in Sandomierz, Poland and was raised in Radom. Her family fled to Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland. She…
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 … Sandomierz, Poland and was raised in Radom. Her family fled to Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland. She and her mother returned to German‐occupied Radom…
48. Oral history interview with Joseph Kutrzeba
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0339
Date:
interview: 1995 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation in Erfurt, Germany by the United States Army; working as a translator for the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps and being sexually harassed by some…
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 … when they didn't want to answer questions. Eventually, by the time that our unit was commandeered back into Germany from Austria, the CIC unit I believe…
49. Presentation by Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.5 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0005
Date:
interview: 1999 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sigmund Boraks, born July 18, 1925 in Wielun, Poland, discusses his experience during Germany’s invasion of Poland; his relocation to the Cracow…
50. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0236
Date:
interview: 2008 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; moving with her mother and sister to Bavaria, Germany in August 1945 and living there until 1947; immigrating as a family to the United States; and joining…