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1. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her…
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 … Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 73 SUMMARY Lory Cahn1, nee Grünberger, was born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany into a religious home. Her father was a…
2. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
3. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…Hedwig Hirschel (born Hedwig Küchler) was born on 28 May 1902 in Glogau Schlesien, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland) to Hirsch Leib and Elise (née…
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 …, her daughter Eva, her husband Max, and his son Horst in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) until 1940 and Shanghai, China from 1940-1947…
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4. Oral history interview with Pepa Gold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.4 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0004
Date:
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… return to Buczacz in July 1944; her move to Kraków, Poland, in July 1945; her time in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland), with two of her brothers from…
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 … we went to Germany. 782 00:30:12,250 --> 00:30:13,140 We were in Berlin. 783 00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:15,990 We came in '46 in Berlin. 784 00:30:15…
5. Oral history interview with Ursula Falk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.17 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0017
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Adler Falk, born in the small spa Bad Mergentheim in Wurttemberg, Germany, describes her early childhood; her parents’ shoe store; moving to…
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 … called Bad Mergentheim in Southern Germany, Württemberg. And I lived there for the first four years of my life. My parents owned a shoe store there, right…
6. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… lives in Italy and Germany. The collection also includes a copy of the personal narrative of Albert Nothmann, a former neighbor of the Naumann family in…
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 … documenting their postwar lives in Italy and Germany. The collection also includes a copy of the personal narrative of Albert Nothmann, a former neighbor of…
7. Oral history interview with Josef Niklasch and Margarette Niklasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.45 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0045
Date:
interview: 1990 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, born in 1910 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses having her first contact with the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1931 and being baptized in…
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 … Germany. She had her first contact with the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1931 and was baptized in 1935. In 1933 she was married to Fritz Delouch who “went away…
8. Oral history interview with Felicia Broh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.6 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0006
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Faigel Broh (nee Pinchas), born May 13, 1904 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes her parents; her family’s religious practices as…
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 …'s fine. Faigel yeah. When were you born? May 13, 1904. In what town and country were you born? I was born in Germany. The town was Breslau. And that was…
9. Oral history interview with Walter Schnell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0323 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0206
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Schnell, born on April 16, 1904 in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland), describes his family and childhood; going to study crystal and…
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 … Schnell. And I was born on April 16, 1904. Q: OK. Where? A: In Strehlen. This is Silesia...is the province of Silesia in Germany. Q: Thank you. A: You…
10. Oral history interview with Josef
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0338 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0047
Date:
interview: 1989 September 22
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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 … for whom? I am spying for Germany?" He was working for Germany. "I'm not spying for Germany." He said, “Don't touch me.” He start to swear to me: "You…
11. Oral history interview with Stefanie Sucher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1274 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1274
Date:
interview: 1985 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stefanie Sucher discusses her early childhood in Reichstadt, Germany; her assimilated German upbringing; the changes that she and her family…
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 … GERMANY JUGEND LEHREN. SHE HAD ANOTHER DEGREE SOMETHING LIKE SOCIAL SERVICE DEGREE4 AND SHE OPENED UP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG GIRLS TO BE ABLE TO WORK WITH…
12. Vamos family papers
2017.335.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.335.1
Date:
inclusive: 1907-2013
…Arthur Vamos (born Artur Vámos, 1911-2006) was born on 19 February 1911 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Ludwig and Emma (née Fuchs, b…
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 …, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), as they emigrated from Germany to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 and to the United States in 1946. The collection includes…
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13. Oral history interview with Arthur Vamos and Ruth Haack Vamos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.335.2 | RG Number: RG-50.393.0001
Date:
interview: 1988
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Arthur Vamos and Ruth Haack Vamos, originally of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) discuss their wartime experiences emigrating from Germany to…
14. Oral history interview with Hilde Sandelowsky and Otto Sandelowsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.95.1 | RG Number: RG-90.204.0001
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
15. Oral history interview with Lola Krause
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.88 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0088
Date:
interview: 1981 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Wasseralfingen, near Stuttgart, Germany; having another son; surviving on food packages from American relatives; immigrating in 1949 to the United States; their…
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 … borders, living in Jewish Agency camps in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland and at Waseralfinger, near Stuttgart, Germany. Another son was born and they survived…
16. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 …:01:07,340 Sometimes, this town was Germany. 20 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,220 Sometimes, it was Poland. 21 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,810 Now, it's just…
17. Oral history interview with Jola Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.74 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0074
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jola Hoffman, born in Leipzig, Germany on June 13, 1931, discusses her childhood in Leipzig; the establishment of the Nuremberg laws in 1936; her…
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 … before the war. I was born in Germany in 1931 in Leipzig. My father was in business in Germany. And my mother went to Leipzig when she was a young girl of…
18. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
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 …, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their…
19. Oral history interview with Rose Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.377 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0377
Date:
interview: 1989 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rose Lesser (née Markus), born on April 10, 1924 in Breslau, Germany, discusses life in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1947.…
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 … restrictions 1 vol. (unpaged) English SUMMARY Rose Lesser, née Markus, was born April 10, 1924 in Breslau, Germany. Her mother died when she was three weeks old…
20. Oral history interview with Zelda Piekarska Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0336 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0041
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the ghetto to a forced labor camp near Wrocław, Poland; her transfer in 1943 to another labor camp in Klettendorf, Germany (Klecina, Wrocław, Poland…
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 …. And we came to Klettendorf--no, we came to [Guntebrecher (ph)], to Germany; and I remember they let us out, like you know, when you sit so many days…