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1. 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…
2. Oral history interview with Marion Pritchard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.24 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0024
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… physically abused; leaving Holland in 1945 to work with the United Nations in displaced persons camps in Germany; becoming active with Zionists trying get to…
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 … school on Saturdays, so those you knew, but didn't mean very much. And then in 1934 or '35, a lot of German Jewish children came from Germany to the…
3. Ruth Wiener Klemens papers
1988.126.31 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.126.31
Date:
1941-1944
… Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany and Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands.…
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 … bath ticket, approximately 1943‐1944 Indexing terms Westerbork (Concentration camp) Bergen‐Belsen (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin…
4. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
5. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
6. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
7. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
8. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Helen Waterford, born in Germany in April 14, 1909, discusses her 1933 marriage; her move to Amsterdam in 1934; working for many years to help Jews…
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 … 14th, 1909. Q: And where were you born, Helen? A: In Germany. Q: Helen, tell me about your childhood? Can we talk about that for awhile? A: Sure. My…
9. Helen H. Waterford manuscripts
Document | Accession Number: 1989.020 | RG Number: RG-02.015
…Helen H. Waterford is a native of Offenbach, Germany, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Waterford and her first husband were hidden by non-Jews in…
10. Oral history interview with Jan W. de Haan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.16 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0016
Date:
interview: 1988 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
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 … not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. JH: Your father was in Germany attending some conference, or so, with…
11. Oral history interview with Christina Zilverberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.23 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0023
Date:
interview: 1988 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
12. Oral history interview with Margot Lawson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.52 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0052
Date:
interview: 1987 May 01
interview: 1987 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
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 … have no idea how many Nazis there still are in Germany. The problem is that people, especially in Holland did not want to hear about the Holocaust. This…
13. Oral history interview with Marion Pritchard and Tony Pritchard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.71 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0071
Date:
interview: 1988 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
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 … split had been made. Q: Was the film made in Germany? M: Yes, it was German, as far as I know it was. Q: So that was the early steps? M: That was what was…
14. Oral history interview with Klaas van Houten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.87 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0087
Date:
interview: 1988 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 95 Christian rescuers in Germany, Netherlands, Canada, France, Belgium, CSSR, United States and Israel…
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 … brown shirts. They started beating these boys... K: And the police don't come, they don't look. I told the police...I could no longer stay in Germany, I…
15. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…Fred Angress was born on 14 April 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His family fled to England in 1937 in order to avoid Nazi persecution. Angress and his…
16. Oral history interview with Charles Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0001
Date:
interview: 1991 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… store in Frankfurt, Germany; transferring to the Munich store in 1933; the closing of the store because of the Nuremberg laws; living in Stuttgart…
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 …RG-50.031.0001 Summary Charles K. Adler, born in Haguenau, France (Alsace-Lorraine) on May 2th, 1905; moving to Worms, Germany in 1909; describing…
17. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
…Felix Levi was born on May 2, 1912, in Sennfeld, Germany, to Maier and Jette Aufhauser Levi. He had several siblings, including two brothers and a…
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 … history: Julie Schweitzer, April 2015 Biographical note Felix Van Beek (1912‐2010) was born Felix Levi in Sennfeld, Germany (Schweinfurt district…
18. von Halle family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.177 | RG Number: RG-10.166
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1947
…Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the military during World War I. After the war, he…
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 … history: Katelynn Vance, July 2020. Biographical note Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the…
19. 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
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
20. British ordnance box given to a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.3
Date:
received: 1944 September-1944 December
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
21. Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.4
Date:
use: 1933 June
…Blanket owned by a German Jewish woman fleeing Germany…
22. Rucksack used by a German Jewish family going into hiding
1990.307.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.5
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 June
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
23. Moustache brush owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.6 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.6
Date:
use: approximately 1907-approximately 1917
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
24. Shaving brush used by a German Jewish refugee in hiding
1990.307.7_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.7 a
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
25. 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
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
26. 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
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
27. 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
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
28. Black leather wallet used by a German Jewish man in hiding
1990.307.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.9
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…Albert Heppner (1900-1945) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1866-1917) and Dina (nee Salomon, 1872-1959) Heppner. Max owned a successful…
29. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
30. Carved upright wooden bench owned by Jakob Krämer and the Heppner family
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.11 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1911
use: before 1942 August
received: approximately 1958
…Jakob Krämer (1868-1943) was born in Ichenhausen, Germany, to Raphael, a leather dealer, and Sophie (nee Seligmann) Krämer. He had four siblings…
31. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee
1990.307.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.12
Date:
use: 1942 April 28-1942 August 09
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
32. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… year, Albert and Irene fled from their native Berlin, Germany, to Amsterdam after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. In Berlin, Albert was an art…
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 …. “Reconnections” includes a clipping about the death of the Graumann’s son, a photocopy of an advertisement about Germany’s capitulation in Holland, Albert Heppner…
33. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Weinrieb, born 1917 in Zagorza, Russia (possibly Zagorsk, Russia), describes his parents fleeing illegally to Germany to avoid service in the Red…
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 … in Russia. Yes. In 1919 my parents left Russia because they deserted the Red Army, and they entered illegally into Germany. My father took a job there…
34. Oral history interview with Ursula Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.60 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0060
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Nartelski Weinrieb, born in 1919 in Berlin, Germany, describes her happy childhood with her parents and sister; attending school; Hitler…
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 … is Ursula Nartelski Weinrieb who was born in Germany and moved to Amsterdam. Her story is a story of courage and resistance in the face of the tyranny…
35. Oral history interview with Max Amichai Heppner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.343.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0094
Date:
interview: 1990 February 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany in 1933; the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands and missing a boat to escape to Sweden; losing several of his family’s possessions to the Nazis; his…
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 … men, all refugees from Germany, play pinochle and drink tea and tell stories and that's how I grew up bilingual, at least bilingual. Uh my father was in…
36. Oral history interview with Kate Bernath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.366.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0023
Date:
interview: 1990 March 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to Auschwitz in May 1944; her transfer to a factory in Augsburg, Germany to work in a Messerschmitt factory; hearing Allied bombings every night…
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 … to work in Augsburg, Germany. Uh, I believe the factory belonged to Messerschmitt. That's what I was told. It was, uh, situated on Ulmerstrasse in…
37. Oral history interview with Barbara Ledermann Rodbell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0192
Date:
interview: 1990 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Barbara Lederman Rodbell, born in 1925 in Berlin, Germany, describes her childhood; moving to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933 with her family…
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 … were you born? A: I was born in Berlin, Germany, September 4, 1925. My mother's name was Else Citroen Citon, which means lemon, and it is a Dutch name…
38. Oral history interview with Jerry von Halle
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.414.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0241
Date:
interview: 1990 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jerry von Halle, born on December 2, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany, describes his family and childhood; learning the Hitler salute in school and having to…
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 …, 1922, in Hamburg, Germany. Q: Did you have any brothers or sisters? A: I had one brother and his name was Hans Jürgen(ph), and he was l year and nine…
39. Oral history interview with Elisabeth Model
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.448.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0163
Date:
interview: 1990 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Elisabeth Model (née Dittmann), born in Bayreuth, Germany in 1897, describes her family; getting married in 1922 and moving to Amsterdam, where she…
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 …. What happened in 1933. A: You know that was that terrible....the beginning in Germany. And of course, we were terribly not only touched but all the…
40. Oral history interview with Dolf Ringel and Dottie Ringel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0117.6 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0006
Date:
interview: 1988 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
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 … city in Western Germany. And after a few years, my parents moved to Frankfurt. My parents came from what is now Poland. I believe that my mother was born…
41. Pouch with a false base used by a German Jewish émigré to smuggle money out of the country
1991.133.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.133.1 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1939 July-1939 August
…Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield, 1897-1991) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hermann (1868-1904) and Jenny Gruenberg (1874-1944) Meier. The…
42. Oral history interview with Cornelus De Vreede
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.12 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stayed for three months; being taken to a prison in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and then to Berlin, Germany; being sent to Sachsenhausen; how in the…
43. Oral history interview with Robert Mansfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.68 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0068
Date:
interview: 1987 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his family's stay in Berlin, Germany between the years of 1930 and 1935; his time as a neighbor of Hermann Göring; moving back to Amsterdam in 1935; his…
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 … in the first and second grade in Germany. In 1935, my father decided since we were Dutch citizens that it was about time that we returned to Holland…
44. Oral history interview with Edward Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.3 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edward Adler, born in 1910, discusses his memories of the early days of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s and his involvement in anti-Nazi…
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 … political parties in Germany at that time, and they were party #26. They had advantage over other political parties such as the communists and democrats…
45. Oral history interview with Tina Strobos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.26 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0026
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
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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 … a traitor of Germany, the head of the uh, Austrian Nazi, who had uh, was the head of the Nazi government from 38 became the head of our government so…
46. Toni Heller collection
1995.A.0176 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0176
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
…) in 1937. The couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany…
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 … couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany for the…
47. Hans Oppenheimer letter
1995.A.0608 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0608
Date:
inclusive: 1943 January 12
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
48. John Franklin memoir
1995.A.0738 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0738
Date:
creation: circa 1995
… Germany, his family's move to Holland following Kristallnacht, their relocation to the Amsterdam ghetto, and deportation to Westerbork It relates his and…
49. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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 …‐‐Netherlands. Refugee camps‐‐Germany. Typhus fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Hospitals‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945…
50. Oral history interview with Diny K. Adkins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.20 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…