Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

1. Oral history interview with Doris Fuchs Greenberg
Click for details
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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … 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…
2. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
3. Oral history interview with Esther Terner Raab
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0184
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; remaining hidden until 1944, when the region in which she hid was freed by the Soviet Red Army; following the Red Army to Berlin, Germany and settling there…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … know? And everybody sit in the house and they didn't go.... And that was the war. But it wasn't like this. The first Friday when Germany declared war…
4. Oral history interview with Irmgard Jahndorf
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.23 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0023
Date:
interview: 1990 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Germany.…
5. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
6. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
7. Oral history interview with Marian Turzanski
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.73 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0073
Date:
interview: 1983 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brothers became messengers; the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars in December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin; the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … messengers. He describes the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars, December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin, in great detail…
8. Oral history interview with Marty Glickman
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0079
Date:
interview: 1990 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where he was a track athlete chosen to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Germany; being one of two Jews on the United States Olympic track team…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … made the team; and, uh, at the time there was talk of a boycott. Uh, a boycott because of Nazi Germany. And the games were being held in Berlin, of…
9. Ilse Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0589 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0589
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
…Ilse Loewenberg (1908-2001) was born to shop owners Simon Berghausen (1870-1943) and Hannchen (Goldschmidt) Berghausen (b. 1880) in Büren, Germany…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Ilse Loewenberg’s experiences as a member of an underground resistance group and her imprisonment in Berlin, Germany from 1943-1945. Included is a…
10. Oral history interview with Ruediger Mack
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.397 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0397
Date:
interview: 1987 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruediger Mack, born on October 7, 1918 in Ranzing, Germany (east of Berlin), discusses his early life and family; serving as a German officer in…
11. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
12. Oral history interview with Hilma Geffen
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.15 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0015
Date:
interview: approximately 1985 January 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hilma Geffen, born in Berlin, Germany in 1925, describes being an only child; her father serving in the German Army during World War I and being…
13. Oral history interview with Hertha Beese
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.54 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0054
Date:
interview: 1983 October 12-1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Hertha Beese in Berlin, Germany on October 15, 1983. The United States…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Beese, nee Scholz, was born in Berlin, Germany September 10, 1902 into a non-Jewish German family. Her parents were active in the Social Democratic party…
14. Oral history interview with Susan Faulkner
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.5 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0005
Date:
interview: 1983 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Susan Faulkner (née Neulaender), born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, describes her father, who was a banker; being raised in an assimilated Jewish…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Germany, when they were near starvation and had to exist on cabbage products, cabbage coffee, cabbage bread, etc., and went nearly hungry many times, and…
15. Oral history interview with Adrian Kowalski
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1714 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1714
Date:
interview: 1984 August 29-1984 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bombing, Aerial--Germany--Berlin.…
16. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel…
17. Oral history interview with Siegmund Weltlinger
Click for details
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.148.0014
Date:
interview: 1972 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish councils--Germany--Berlin.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … did not leave Germany after the Nuremberg laws. As a former combatant he believed nobody would harm him. He trusted in German jurisdiction and he did…
18. Oral history interview with Gertrud Egloffstein
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.24 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0024
Date:
interview: 1988 July 29
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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …)--there were many countries in it. Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.) 79:00 At first there was a slogan in the German speaking nations: "today Germany…
19. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
20. Crystal Night oral history interview
Click for details
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.8 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0008
Date:
interview: 1988 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Five individuals who lived in Germany and Austria before, during, or after Kristallnacht discuss their experiences. The interviewees describe the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Germany and Austria that were filled with our ancestors, our brothers, and our sisters, our grandparents, our great-grandparents perhaps. We commemorate the…