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1. 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
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… 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…
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 … 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…
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2. Oral history interview with Lore Hepner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.36 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0036
Date:
interview: 2011 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lore Eva Hepner Halbershtam, born July 23, 1929 in Berlin, Germany, describes her family; leaving Berlin at age 9; her happy childhood; how her…
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 …. The only solution became apparent: to leave Germany. Mother began her search for visas in the embassies and consulates. She found visas from Cuba for…
3. Oral history interview with Hanns Stein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.85 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0085
Date:
interview: 2011 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and uncle sending all the machinery for their factory to Chile; crossing Germany and being stopped at the border with Holland and being sent back into…
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 … day of departure they were only allowed a suitcase each, and only 10 marks. They departed by railroad, crossing all of Germany. At the border with…
4. Oral history interview with Lina Haag
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.96 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0096
Date:
interview: 2012 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
5. Oral history interview with Annelise Hentschel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.35 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0035
Date:
interview: 2011 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Annelise Hentschel, born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, discusses her divorced parents; her parents’ leather factory; living with her grandmother…
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 …Interviewee: Annelise Hentschel Interviewer: Andrea Berdichevsky June 2, 2011 Annelise Hentschel was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1921. Mother…
6. Oral history interview with Walter Frankenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.84.25 | RG Number: RG-90.047.0025
Date:
interview: 2017 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… public school until 1936 until he was expelled by the antisemitic principal; attending a Jewish school in Berlin, Germany while living in the Jewish…
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 … the Judische Volkschule on Rykestrasse in Berlin, Germany while living in the Jewish Auerbach orphanage; being quickly accepted by the other boys…
7. Oral history interview with Hans Tuch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.279.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0215
Date:
interview: 2013 November 07
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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 …? 18 00:00:58,980 --> 00:01:07,160 I was born in Berlin, in Germany, on October 15, 1924. 19 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,130 Let's talk now about your…
8. "A Life of Rebellion"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.33.1
Date:
inclusive: 2012-2012
…Berlin (Germany)…
9. Oral history interview with David Corn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.52 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0052
Date:
interview: 2021 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David Corn, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, discusses his relationship with his uncle, the esteemed Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg.…
10. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Heinz Stephan Lewy was born on March 11, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Arthur and Gertrude Puls Lewy. Arthur…
11. Oral history interview with Doris Kumar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.7.1 | RG Number: RG-90.220.0001
Date:
interview: 2022 January 21-2022 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.…
12. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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… 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…
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 … 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…
13. Oral history interview with Gertrude Chapman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.299.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0901
Date:
interview: 2016 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gertrude Chapman (née Senia Gertrude Weber), born on April 9, 1932 in the Schönefeld part of Berlin, Germany, describes growing up one of seven…
14. Oral history interview with Jenny Brody
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.394.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0842
Date:
interview: 2015 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jenny Brody (née Judith Sara Regen), born on August 16, 1928 in the Scheunenviertel neighborhood of Berlin, Germany; her older brothers (Herbert…
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 … Scheunenviertel neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. She was one of five children, and the oldest girl. Her older brothers were Herbert, Helmut, and Alfred. She also…
15. Oral history interview with Dieter Protsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.99.1 | RG Number: RG-50.692.0001
Date:
interview: 2011
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dieter Protsch, born April 29, 1932 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Nazi Germany; his experience during World War II as a member of…
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 …, you were born in Berlin? Protsch: Yup on the 29th of April, in Berlin which was then the capital of Germany. And my parents were both members of the…
16. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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17. Oral history interview with Saskia von Brockdorff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.15 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0015
Date:
interview: 2018 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.…
18. Oral history interview with Dorothea Fingerhood
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.199.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0927
Date:
interview: 2017 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dorothea Fingerhood (née Dorothea Hilda Cohen or Coen) was born on February 10, 1928 in Hameln, Germany and moved to Berlin when she was one year old…
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 …, Germany and moved to (East) Berlin when she was one year old. Her sister Harriet was 15 months younger. Her parents worked as pharmacists at two of their…
19. Oral history interview with Saskia von Brockdorff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.5 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0005
Date:
interview: 2018 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.…
20. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0466
Date:
interview: 2014 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Robert “Bob” Behr, born in 1922 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his family; his father Alfred, who was a real estate agent; his mother Lilly, who…
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 … introduction. Bob Behr was born in Germany, which is highlighted on this map, on March 1, 1922. He celebrated his 92nd birthday in March. He lived the first 20…