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1. A Czech Jew at forced labor clears blocks of ice in the center of Prague.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 59540
Date:
Circa 1944
…A Czech Jew at forced labor clears blocks of ice in the center of Prague.…
2. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name. Photographs…
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 … regulations imposed in Czechoslovakia and deportations of Jews from Austria. The collection also includes two cardboard tags bearing Joseph Weiss’s name…
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3. Occupation and administration decrees from the Jewish Museum in Prague
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0098 | RG Number: RG-03.004.01
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1942
… German occupation agencies from 1940 to 1942. The decrees concern persecution of Jews in Prague and Slaný, the regulation of communication by mail…
4. Fannie Stern Selig diary
1991.A.0003 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 52
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-19.012.01
Date:
creation: 1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… France, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Palestine. The diary focuses on topics such as her daily experiences, emigration of Jews to…
5. Records relating to the activities of the International Red Cross in Terezin
Document | Accession Number: 1991.008 | RG Number: RG-04.014.01
Date:
1939-1990
… various scenes of the Jews and other citizens at Terezin.…
6. Informations bulletin
Document | Accession Number: 1988.036 | RG Number: RG-03.001.01
Date:
1959
… Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are the killing of thousands of Czechoslovakian Jews in the gas chamber at Birkenau, the treatment of children and the…
7. Oral history interview with Ruth Bobek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.357 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0357
Date:
interview: 1999 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s job as an accountant; not experiencing normal schooling because there was an edict not to accept Jews in government schools; receiving home instruction…
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 … the appointed age of six, there was an edict not to accept Jews in government schools. Her parents organized home instruction for their children, but…
8. Oral history interview with Moshe Leshem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.620 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0491
Date:
interview: 2004 October 06
interview: 2004 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Moshe Leshem, born in 1918 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, describes growing up in a Zionist family; the relations between Jews and Gentiles before World…
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 … has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0491 5 A: Yes, because there were 12,000 J-Jews -- Jews in Brno. Q: Did you feel…
9. Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká and Alexander Wrchovszky papers
2001.46 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.46 | RG Number: RG-10.218
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2001
… effects of anti‐Semitic laws on the Wrchovszky family in occupied Czechoslovakia, Alexander Wrchovszky’s internment at a camp for Jews of mixed parentage at…
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 … Czechoslovakia, Alexander Wrchovszky’s internment at a camp for Jews of mixed parentage at Bystřice, the deportation of Augusta Treulich Wrchovszká to…
10. Oral history interview with Irena Kirkland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0029
Date:
interview: 1996 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Prague before the Munich Agreement; returning to the city and learning she was Jewish; adapting to restrictions placed on Jews; her feelings about wearing…
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 …? 43 00:01:53,870 --> 00:01:57,540 Was it a mixed neighborhood of Jews and non-Jews? 44 00:01:57,540 --> 00:01:58,460 I don't think-- 45 00:01:58…
11. Eva Mándlová Roubíčková papers
1996.A.0383 Book Enclosure 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews stating that Eva received a food parcel. The collection also includes originals and…
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 … mother, pamphlets notifying Eva’s family that they have to leave their home and what they could bring, and a letter from the Relief Committee of Jews…
12. Oral history interview with Hana Bruml
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.355.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0043
Date:
interview: 1990 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… development of a romance with Bruno, who worked as an internist in the camp; the special treatment of Danish Jews and a few prominent Austrian and German Jews…
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 … in Czechoslovakia. Because, I remember so clearly, when I was about eleven or twelve, I read a book about the Marranos. These were the uh Jews in Spain…
13. Oral history interview with Frania Haverland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.19 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0019
Date:
interview: 1994 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her father’s initial arrest because the Nazi Party needed musicians and he was an orchestra conductor; the rising harassment of Jews; her mother…
14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Synagogue in Czechoslovakia; peasants
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0990 | Film ID: 919
Film Title:
Czechoslovakia-The Soviet's Neighbor
Date:
Event: 1946 October 03
Censor: 1946
Duration:
00:07:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
15. Oral history interview with Joseph Ronec
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.94 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0094
Date:
interview: 1996 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joseph John Ronec, born June 1, 1924 in Topol'cany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), describes his family; being expelled from high school; Jews having…
16. Oral history interview with Alice Bogart
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.8 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; restrictions placed on Jews after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia; her and her brother’s involvement with the Zionist youth group, “Helping Hands;” going…
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 … 114 00:06:29,590 --> 00:06:33,376 and against the Jews, and in school some of the [GERMAN] 115 00:06:33,376 --> 00:06:37,720 Jügend and in our class…
17. Oral history interview with Alice Lefkovic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.36 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0036
Date:
interview: 1989 January 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; deportations of Jews from Hungary in May 1944; being deported to Sered concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; her subsequent transport to Therensienstadt…
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 …? 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,070 How not to frighten a child? 16 00:01:07,070 --> 00:01:11,870 How can I present that being a Jew today for their…
18. Oral history interview with Jerry Rind
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.33 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0033
Date:
interview: 1990 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; his parents’ background; the Munich Conference and start of the occupation; realizing that to be a Jew is to be alone, evidenced by treatment by…
19. Oral history interview with Paul Zentner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1215 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1215
Date:
interview: circa 1989-1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… crews involved in filming what was likely a Nazi propaganda film (possibly "The Fuehrer Gives a City to the Jews"); his acquaintance with some of Terezin…
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 … States And again thats what happened to lot of Jews that we couldnt decide that we all suddenly wanted to go because leaving the properties there and that…
20. Oral history interview with William Himmelfarb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.55 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0055
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on Jews; the formation of ghettos; being taken with others to Skarzysko-Kamienna; his work in the camp; hearing that the Jews in Koprzywnica were…
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 … us. Then the rules came through, every Jew, the age of twelve, men and women had to wear armband with the Star of David on the left arm. Everybody had…