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1. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…Selmar Biener (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He…
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 … (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He had three brothers…
2. Lotte and Ellen Markiewicz correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2015.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1941
…Ellen Gerber (born Ellen Markiewicz) was born on August 18, 1926 in Berlin, Germany. Her father Max was a businessman, and her mother Lotte Goldstein…
3. Thomas Rey papers
2018.24.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.24.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1956
…-February 6, 1943), a decorated bomber pilot for Germany in World War I. Hans’s parents were Eugen (1862-1937) and Hedwig Rehfisch (b. 1866). Eugen, a noted…
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 … SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Thomas Rey papers primarily consist of letters he received in England from family members in Germany…
4. Homeless in exile : days of persecution in fall and winter 1938-39
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0066 | RG Number: RG-02.061.01
Date:
creation: 1939
…Harry Richard Loewenberg was born in 1887 in Posen, Germany. During his career as a journalist, he served as Editor-in-Chief of "Textile Woche" in…
5. Oral history interview with Gertrude Luckner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.54 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0054
Date:
interview: 1988 July 28
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…
6. Oral history interview with Doris Small
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.361 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0597
Date:
interview: 2010 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Doris Small, born July 1923 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her Polish-born father who was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War I; attending…
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 … accuracy. Answer: I was born in Berlin, Germany, in July 1923. Q: Uh-huh. And you were born Doris -- as Doris -- A: Dora Costinski (ph). Q: Dora Costinski…
7. Oral history interview with Chaim Rozenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.176 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0176
Date:
interview: 1996 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Vollweiler, born on August 8, 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany, discusses his parents Klara Stern (born in Schopfloch, Bavaria in 1880) and Salomon…
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 … that war was coming; lived in Mława, Friday 1 September artillery and bombs began falling; Mława was ten miles from border with Germany; Polish soldiers…
8. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
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 … Schmeidler, Max, 1920-1981 Shanghai (China)--Municipal Police. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish police officers--China--Shanghai…
9. Oral history interview with Stephanie Hessel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.19 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0019
Date:
interview: 1989 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stephane Hessel, born in Berlin, Germany in 1917, describes his family moving to Paris, France in 1924; his parents; his education; his attitude…
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 …Mr. Hessel, reel one-- please tell me about your family background. My family comes from Germany. I was actually born in Berlin, and the family…
10. Oral history interview with Erika Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.45 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0045
Date:
interview: 1999 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erika Weingarten (née Mosler), born on October 9, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood in Berlin; her assimilated family life; her…
11. Oral history interview with Erna Harding
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.320 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0320
Date:
interview: 2001 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erna Harding, born in 1902 in Gera, Thuringia, Germany, discusses her childhood in Gera; her family's experiences during World War I; her nursing…
12. Oral history interview with Joan Schwab
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0589 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0058
Date:
interview: 1996 November 05
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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 … Germany and will die in Germany (but died in a concentration camp). Her grandfather was more religious than the family but did not object when they ate out…
13. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
…Berlin (Germany)…
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 … consular service, French--Morocco--History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. Geographic Name Ankara (Turkey) Beirut (Lebanon) Berlin (Germany) Bern…
14. "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…
15. 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.…
16. Oral history interview with Roger Bryan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.76 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0076
Date:
interview: 1996 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Roger Bryan (formerly Rudolf Britzmann), born in Berlin, Germany on June 14, 1921, describe his father, a physician and a decorated German army…
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 … about your family? RB: All right. I was born in Berlin, Germany on June 14, 1921. My father was a physician at that address. And my mother was a housewife…
17. Oral history interview with Gisela Feldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0153 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0429
Date:
interview: 1996 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gisela Feldman, born in 1923, discusses her first encounters with antisemitism in Berlin, Germany after Hitler came to power in 1933 and her…
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 …, Germany. Q: Can you tell me a little bit about growing up in Berlin at that time and about your schooling and your parents? A: I was born in 1923, as I said…
18. Oral history interview with William Perl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10
interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… continue helping Jews flee from the Germans; Jewish refugees arriving from all over Europe to escape; his arrest in Greece and deportation to Germany; his…
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 …: Right. So, in Vienna, to go ahead to the early 1930's, of course, in January, 1933, Hitler comes to power in Germany. How did that affect your Zionist…
19. Oral history interview with Fritz H. Reuter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.46 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0046
Date:
interview: 1983 August 23-1983 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; moving to Berlin, Germany with his mother; his education in Berlin, Thuringia, and Munich; attending Humboldt University in Berlin and Morabit Hospital…
20. Felix Kotek family papers
1999.A.0057 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0057
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…