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1. Sheepskin vest worn by a Jewish girl living in hiding
2008.105.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.105.2
Date:
use: 1939-1944
… for the army. After the war ended in 1945, he claimed that he was not Jewish, and was able to return to Vilna. Their other family members had all been…
2. Wrist watch with a brown band and engraved initials saved from Vilna ghetto
2005.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.198.2
Date:
use: 1941 September-1943 September
… devastated the Jewish community. Most were merchants since they were barred from many other professions. Her father’s business began to fail and other family…
3. Dark red leather wallet used by a Polish Army officer to hold military ID
2004.40.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.40.2
Date:
use: before 1943 September 04
… September 6, a Jewish ghetto was established. Before their forced relocation, the family hid their photo albums in the attic. Germans occupied their apartment…
4. 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…
5. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…Jewish families--Germany--Hamburg.…
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 …, Zelman, 1895-1960. Zeidshnur, Judith, 1896-1984? Corporate: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Topical Subject: Jewish families--Germany--Hamburg. Jewish…
6. Oral history interview with Rochelle Blackman Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0216
Date:
interview: 1990 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rochelle Blackman Slivka, born in 1922 in Vilnius, Lithuania, describes growing up in a Jewish family; the German occupation of Vilnius in June 1941…
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 …. We were with different numbers than the non-Jewish kids. But life was not bad except the anti-Semitism in Poland. We had a normal life. Our family wasn…
7. Oral history interview with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0197
Date:
interview: 1989 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … been a very nice Jewish family. My father was director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. I had a brother and a sister. My mother, what I heard and would…
8. Oral history interview with Selma Blick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.940 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0940
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
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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 … about 50,000 people called Bielsko where cloth was the main manufactured product. She went to a private Jewish school. In 1937 or 1938, she reports that a…
9. Oral history interview with Nat Soffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1456 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1456
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
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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 … UCNT AGAIN AND THATS HOW IT WENT 12 THE INTERVIEWER CAN YOU DESCRIBE TO 13 ME LITTLE BITWELL FIRST OF ALL TELL ME 14 WHAT OTHER FAMILY YOU HAD. 15 MR…
10. Oral history interview with Faye Szander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1276
Date:
interview: 1986 February 11
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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 … Germans came to Wilna in iti how large was your family My mother my father two brothers because one brother it escaped to Russia me my husband my little boy…
11. Oral testimony of Simon Malkès
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.476.11 | RG Number: RG-50.904.0011
Date:
interview: 2014 December 14
Alternate Title:
"Saved by a Right Man in Vilnius"
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Simon Malkès, born in 1927 in a traditional Zionist family, discusses growing up in Vilnius, Lithuania; his Jewish life, including the religious…
12. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.84 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lily Margules discusses her family’s experiences during the Holocaust; the three layers of Jewish society in her village of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania…
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 … family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Her mother worked as a dentist and her father was a pharmacist. She describes three layers of Jewish society…
13. Oral history interview with Dolly Bestandig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0424 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0073
Date:
interview: 1997 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Lithuania--Vilnius.…
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 …,340 I was born in Vilna, Lithuania, 24 of July of 1939. 15 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:52,470 Let's talk a little bit about your family, 16 00:00:52,470 --> 00…
14. Oral history interview with Daniel Avidar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.238 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0238
Date:
interview: 1995 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Daniel Avidar, born in 1931 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), describes being the youngest of five children in an affluent family; attending…
15. William Begell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1947
bulk: 1930-1947
… September 6, a Jewish ghetto was established. Before their forced relocation, the family hid their photo albums in the attic. Germans occupied their apartment…