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1. Oral history interview with Itamar Orian
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.371 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0371
Date:
interview: 2000 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… locking him in his room when she went out; seeing dead bodies on the street, Germans on trucks shooting people in the street, and Germans taking people away…
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 … the street, Germans on trucks shooting people in the street, and Germans taking people away on trucks. He went to live with his grandfather for a time…
2. Oral history interview with Benjamin Meed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.356.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0152
Date:
interview: 1990 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cross truck after his liberation to escape persecution by Germans and Poles after the war; reuniting with his parents after the war; and marrying Vladka…
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 … heard that a few trucks arrived at the corner not far where I was living and...uh...they were giving out bread. So naturally I was the first one of the…
3. Oral history interview with Edmund Potok
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.315 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0538
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… home; going to Warsaw with his family, and then to Otwock with 42 other family members; Russian soldiers confiscating his family’s truck and sending the…
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 … his parents, plus 42 family members, left for Otwock in September 1939. Russians confiscated the family’s truck and diverted them to L’viv. In June 1940…
4. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Halang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.17 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0017
Date:
interview: 1999 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Soviets; his work as a truck driver for American occupation forces in Kassel, Germany from 1945 to 1947; his views on Russians and Eastern Europeans; his…
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 …! ((lachend:)) Bin ich zu 'nem großen Truck , und da runterfahren mit dem großen Truck mit=mit=mit so Sattelschlepper ne , da runterfahren umdrehen zurückfahren…
5. Oral history interview with Walter Taranowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.135 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0135
Date:
interview: 1992 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Nazis thought he was an American spy; his brutal treatment by the Nazis; being taken with 5,000 Polish men on trucks to Auschwitz; building Birkenau…
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 … ’41, Russians came with the truck, loaded my mother and my sister and little bit belongings what they had and took them on the railroad station to the…
6. Klara Salamon papers
2007.23 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2007.23
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… truck bound for Sarnaki on the Bug River. Her father decided to stay behind to finish putting the plans in place for their intended destination—Vilnius…
7. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
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Save Their Stories
… Orthodox so they would not have to attend Sunday mass. Wiera took a typing course and found clerical work at a Mercedes Benz truck repair shop called…
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 … pretended to be Russian Orthodox so they would not have to attend Sunday mass. Wiera took a typing course and found clerical work at a Mercedes Benz truck…
8. Oral history interview with Czeslaw Mordowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0354
Date:
interview: 1995 October 24
interview: 1996 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … furniture to destinations outside the ghetto. I drove this truck with these furniture, which were filled with food: flour, sugar, fat and even apples ... , Q…
9. Oral history interview with Mieczyslaw Madejski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0142
Date:
interview: 1992 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … that the army -- the army give me a truck, they -- a soldier make on that truck -- put the big barrels, they pump the water, and I drive this water from…
10. Oral history interview with Ada Matulski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.346 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0346
Date:
interview: 1998 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the factory for 200 children of the workers. One day all the children were loaded into trucks. Her father had to buy her back, as did other parents. The…
11. Oral history interview with Adam Starkopf and Pela Starkopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.396.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0221
Date:
interview: 1990 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …. There were trucks, you know. So many trucks and so many people. The gates were opened. They were taking hundreds and hundreds of prisoners into Treblinka…
12. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection
2006.226.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.226.1
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inclusive: circa 1900-1945
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 … there. On July 7, 1943, German trucks and later trains took 2,800 Jews to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. Apart from the Soviet POW’s they were…
13. Oral history interview with Thaddeus Gubala
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.18.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0783
Date:
interview: 2015 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Umschlagplatz. That’s was the – the Jews were loaded on the trucks, and taken over to Treblinka. So this was ex-Jewish district. Q: So, was the Umschlagplatz…
14. Oral history interview with Simcha Rotem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.130 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0130
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 … house. Escape by jumping on passing truck. Reach safe house. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
15. Oral history interview with Jack Ophir
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.272.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0247
Date:
interview: 2015 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …,110 A truck? 134 00:07:31,110 --> 00:07:33,960 135 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:34,460 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection…
16. Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0139
Date:
interview: 1993 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … punished because I saw the others going on the trucks and I know we had to march because I figured if they go on trucks and we have to march so I thought gee…
17. Oral history interview with Frances Zatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.144 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0144
Date:
interview: 1992 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …? A: I saw them, it seems like, after the bombing. They were like animals running on the motorcycles. I would see trucks. They made such noises that it…
18. Oral history interview with Jadwiga Zachczyńska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.185 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0185
Date:
interview: 2003 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Germans who demanded that the corpses be put on trucks and transported to the Jewish cemetery which was close to the hospital; relates burying her friend…
19. Oral history interview with Vladka Meed
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0153
Date:
interview: 1991 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0153 8 trucks or buses, sealed them and the Jews were gassed…
20. Oral history interview with Jack Baum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0424
Date:
interview: 1995 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … occupied Poland. Q. What happened? A. In 1939 they start to make trouble. They jumped down from trucks and they call it ______________, in Polish. They drop…