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1. Oral history interview with Sofie Doernberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.41.1 | RG Number: RG-50.971.0001
Date:
interview: 1978 May 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.…
2. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
3. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
… aunt, Wilhelm and Flora Stein, in Berlin-Neukölln, London, and then Chicago. These letters describe immigration efforts and life in Nazi Germany…
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 … in Nazi Germany Additional correspondence files include postcards congratulating Justine Selig and her family upon her engagement in 1896 and letters…
4. Oral history interview with John Mulholland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.48 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0048
Date:
interview: 1983 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Rhine, towards Mannheim, Germany; his job reconnoitering enemy communications; being called by the 7th Army to go see how Ulm was; going to…
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 … Germany, when this country popped off two atomic bombs. Even more than this, what upset me the most is http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
5. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
…Eric Weil (Erich, 1913-2001) was born in Mannheim, Germany to Max Weil and Jenny Weil (née Meyer) and had a sister Hannah. Max owned a liquor…
6. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
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…Ruth Mueller (1917-2015) was born in Mannheim, Germany to a non-Jewish father, Paul Mueller (1890-1937) and a Jewish mother, Marie Mueller (1895-1975…
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 … Frankfurt, Germany. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, and driver’s license for Paul, Ruth’s father…
7. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
…Richard Weilheimer was born November 21, 1931 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. His parents, Maximilian (Max) Weilheimer (who was secretary of the Jewish…
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 … Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940…
8. Oral history interview with Zygmunt Gottlieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.35 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0035
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a teacher before the war; his memories of testifying at a Mannheim war crimes trial; his travels to Vienna, Austria and Munich, Germany after the war…
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 …,160 --> 00:01:12,910 the war between Poland and Russia, and Poland and Germany. 17 00:01:12,910 --> 00:01:17,350 Poland was divided in two parts. 18 00:01:17…
9. Oral history interview with Max Liebmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.445.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0134
Date:
interview: 1990 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Liebmann, born on September 3, 1921 in Mannheim, Germany, describes his family and childhood; attending school until December 1937, when he had…
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 …-- A: I was born in Mannheim, Germany, on September 3, 1921. Q: Tell me about your parents and your family. A: My father was – had a -- was in his own…
10. Oral history interview with Katsugo Miho
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.18 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0018
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing civilians with yellow stars on their clothes in Aachen, Germany; and witnessing a death march from Dachau and not knowing at the time that they were…
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 …th Army and the 3rd Army and fought battles of Mannheim, Frankfurt and Heidelberg. They went to a town called Aken (ph) - a border town between Germany and…
11. 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…
12. Oral history interview with Helen Collins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.671 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0671
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Ms. Collins's childhood and young adulthood in Mannheim, Germany, the assimilated nature of life there, the effect of Hitler…
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 … born in July 1912 in Mannheim, Germany. And my mother moved to Stuttgart when I was two years old, and my brother was a half a year old because of World…
13. Oral history interview with Renee Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.71 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0071
Date:
interview: 1987 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Renee Stern (née Renate Israel), born on July 1, 1926 in Mannheim, Germany, describes being raised Orthodox Jewish; being an only child; her father…
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 …Time-coded notes for Interview with Renee Stern April 9, 1991 01:00 She was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1926. Her family's roots in southern Germany…
14. Oral history interview with Margot Lawson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.14 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0014
Date:
interview: 1984 September 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Margot Edith Lawson, born April 3, 1909 in Mannheim, Germany, discusses her life in Germany leading up to World War II; growing up in a Catholic…
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 … now Lawson. And where and when were you born? I was born April the 3rd, 1909, in Mannheim, Germany. What were your parents' complete names? Hans Scharf…
15. Oral history interview with Sylvia Malcmacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.34 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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 … started and it came closer to '38 and in Germany already went on the Holocaust, then it got real bad. Sylvia, you talked about the youths belonging-- Yeah…
16. Oral history interview with Richard Glazar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.14 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0014
Date:
interview: 1981 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as a partisan; working at a factory in Mannheim, Germany; making it across U.S. lines; proving that he was Jewish to the U.S. Army; his reunion with…
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 … Charles and Richard escaped to Germany under false papers. 1943-1969 2:01:05 Richard Glazer and his friend Charles spent 8 hours in the water near Treblinka…
17. Oral history interview with Billy Taylor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.40 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Rhine River at Worms, Germany; taking Mannheim, Germany; coming across a training camp for German youth and a compound of imported food; being northwest…
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 … 522 field artillery and sent us north, up into France and Germany, to make the push into Germany with our artillery. And that's when we separated. And…
18. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
… Europe, he was reunited with his parents who had fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium. His mother had lived under a false identity using a passport…
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 …’s family in Germany, her departure via Kindertransport to England, Robert Singer’s family in Austria, his stay in the Merksplas internment camp in Belgium…