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1. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0175 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0107
Date:
interview: 1998 August 20
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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 … 00:09:26,670 --> 00:09:28,640 and Germany, and what was happening, 173 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,780 and the plight of the Jews in Russia. 174 00:09:31…
2. Oral history interview with Ernest Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0434 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0003
Date:
interview: 1997 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the American Embassy in Germany, moving to Brussels, Belgium in 1964 to work as the Agricultural Attaché with the Common Market (European Economic…
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 … emperor of Germany. Q: When Hitler came to power did your -- was your discussion in -- among your f- father and mother ab-about what was going on? A: Well…
3. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family archive
2015.603. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1968
… eventually moved to Berlin, Germany. Alexander married Sima Tykotzki (1898-1968), and their son Larry (1924-2009) was born on 22 October 1924. Disturbed by the…
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 … Dates: 1918-1968 Accession number: 2015.603.1 Creator: Shalit family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust…
4. Josef Nassy papers
1991.245.229 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.245.229
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1953
… Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Josef was arrested in April 1942 as an enemy national, as he had an American passport. Nassy was held in Beverloo…
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 … Nassy papers, 1945‐1953 Indexing terms Ilag VII (Concentration camp). Concentration camp inmates as artists‐‐Germany. Concentration camp…
5. Hana Wieder collection.
Document | Accession Number: 2000.406.1
Date:
creation: 1929-1956
… business in Kalisz, Poland. Four of his siblings left Germany and settled in Palestine. Sometime in 1930, Konrad received German citizenship, married Hudes…
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 … in the Polish territory will be shorter than six months, includes red ink round stamp with Polish eagle of the Polish Consulate, Breslau, Germany…
6. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
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7. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
…Beatrice (Trixie) Westheimer was born on June 5, 1933, in Berlin, Germany, the only child of Julius and Meta Boas Westheimer. Meta was born in 1904…
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 …, Hurwitz, Lewy, and Westheimer families at home in Germany and Belgium and on vacations before the war, Beatrix Westheimer and Henri Hurwitz in hiding in…
8. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…Fritz Dieter Vendig (Fred, 1932-2001) was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, to Charlotte (née Berstein, 1907-1988) and Ernst Vendig (1899-1956). Ernst…
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 … status through Germany, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, their release from Rivesaltes, and their immigration to the United States. The collection further…
9. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.402 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0065
Date:
interview: 2000 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eddie Willner discusses his pre-war family life in Mönchengladbach, Germany; his experiences during Kristallnacht; escaping from a transport leaving…
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 … citizen while in the Army August 21, 1958 - married German Protestant woman, Johanna, who had left East Germany and worked in the American Headquarters in…
10. Oral history interview with Helmut von Schweitzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.160.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1081
Date:
interview: 2020 June 18
interview: 2020 June 20
interview: 2020 June 22
interview: 2020 June 29
interview: 2020 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Draftees--Germany.…
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 … errors in spelling or accuracy. 94 00:07:25,050 --> 00:07:29,700 How does one, in Germany, become a Von anybody. 95 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:34,820 So a Von…
11. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
…Walter Kamlet was born in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 1922, to Benno and Mila Kamlet. He had a younger brother, Manfred. Benno Kamlet owned a…
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 … and Holocaust experiences of Walter Kamlet, originally of Berlin, Germany. The collection includes information regarding Kamlet's life as a teenager at…
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12. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
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 …, Peter’s relatives, their pre-war lives in Germany and Austria, Peter’s time in Shanghai, and their immigration to the United States. https://collections…
13. Oral history interview with Fanny Aizenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0539
Date:
interview: 2016 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany)…
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 … 21, 1939, Fanny gave birth to Josiane. The following year on May 10th, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. This picture of Jacques, Fanny and Josiane https…
14. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Fritz (now Fred) Buff (1921-2017) was the son of Julius and Emma Buff. He was born on July 26, 1921 in Krumbach, Germany, a small Bavarian town where…
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 …, Germany, his voyage aboard the MS St. Louis to Cuba in 1939, the ship’s forced return to Europe, his life as a refugee in Brussels, Belgium, and his…
15. Oral history interview with Beatrice Muchman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.298.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0900
Date:
interview: 2016 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Beatrice (Trixie) Muchman (née Westheimer) was born June 5, 1933 in Berlin, Germany to Meta and Julius Westheimer. She had two nicknames: Trixie and…
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 … Berlin, Germany. 19 00:00:54,530 --> 00:00:56,210 What was your name at birth? 20 00:00:56,210 --> 00:00:57,470 Westheimer. 21 00:00:57,470 --> 00:00:58…
16. Oral history interview with Fanny Aizenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0211
Date:
interview: 2008 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany)…
17. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligman and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald…
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 … Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligmann and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald during…
18. Ilse Rothschild papers
1995.A.0004.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0004.2
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Ilse Rothschild (1916-2011) was born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany to Eduard Cohn and Hedwig Katzenstein Cohn. She lived in Antwerp until 1938 and…
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 … Bad Hersfeld, Germany to Eduard Cohn and Hedwig Katzenstein Cohn. She lived in Antwerp until 1938 and survived the war in Brussels and Namur under the…
19. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0670
Date:
interview: 2018 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…
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 …, Max, in Berlin, Germany, in front of the capital building around 1919 or 1920. He had recently emigrated there from Poland. On this map of Germany the…
20. Harry Markowicz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.382.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
bulk: 1940-1949
…Harry Markowicz was born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany to Max (born in Łask, Poland) and Marja Markowicz (born in Wlodawa, Poland). Harry was…