Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.119 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0119
- Date:
- interview: 1983 June 27
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1944; studying at a university and a rabbinical college in Rome; managing to remain in Italy as a student; Mussolini’s treatment of Jews and his changing…
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… explains how he managed to remain in Italy as a student. He describes Mussolini’s treatment of Jews and his changing attitude towards Hitler. Even after anti…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.291 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0291
- Date:
- interview: 1996 August 30
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… escape an execution; hiding in a bunker with her family and others; discovery by the Germans; escaping to another bunker; a non-Jew hiding her and three…
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… and Move to Ghetto Found mass grave with many Jews (including brother and father). Judenrat organized workshops where she worked for Germans. Moved to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.274 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0274
- Date:
- interview: 1996 February 01
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… teacher training program; taking her finals in Rome, Italy in 1941 and the separation of Jews and non-Jews during the test; the life of the Jewish community…
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… basis. She took finals in 1941 in Rome. Describes conditions of test taking. Jews were separated from non Jews. 1.13 Describes the life of the Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.269 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0269
- Date:
- interview: 1995 December 22
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… met others Jews from Berezhany, who were in hiding in the forest and had weapons. Menachem describes life in the forest for an eight month period. He…
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… RG-50.120*0269 2 Tapes KATZ, MENACHEM 1.01 He was born in Berezhany (Bzezan), Poland in 1925. The town had 3,000 Jews out of a population of 12…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.39 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0039
- Date:
- interview: 1996 March 17
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Liberec; studying Talmud at his paternal grandfather’s house; the relations between Jews and non-Jews; his father’s work as a landscape photographer…
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… there Mother, Elsa, from a different part of Bohemia, also a German district known for hops and cucumbers Leibrach, 500 Jews, grandfather was religious…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.198.1 | RG Number: RG-50.267.0001
- Date:
- Recorded: 1965 August
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was wounded on the Saars River in Germany; Erich Wolf (né Ladislav Wolfenstein, born January 17, 1926), a Hungarian Jew, served as a member of the…
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… Bulge; wounded on the Saars River in Germany. Erich Wolf – Hungarian Jew; served as a member of the Hungarian Underground; captured by the Gestapo in…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.321.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0673
- Date:
- interview: 2012 August 21
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling to Morocco on the British ship the Empress of Scotland; being stationed in Casablanca, Morocco; the warm welcome American troops received from Jews…
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… population 823 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,570 feel about that, the Jews? 824 00:47:23,570 --> 00:47:25,920 I don' know. 825 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:29,140 In…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.746 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0746
- Date:
- interview: 1990 July 10
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and Italy; his political leanings before and after the war; his thoughts about the Soviet Union; the relations between Jews and Poles prior to the war…
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… volunteered and I was in the army. What did you study at the university? Chemistry, of all things. Alfred, can i-- were you-- did many Jews volunteer for the…
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0300
- Date:
- interview: 1994 November 30
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had promised to hide them but had changed her mind when she found out the penalties for hiding Jews; fleeing to the forest, where they witnessed the…
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… to buy from Jews, and especially even mentioned my mother's name – my mother's name was Gittel but in Polish they call it Gitka (ph) – especially to…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.12 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0012
- Date:
- interview: 1993 April 30
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling with him to Zabolotiv, Ukraine; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; moving to several villages, including Zagoździe, Poland and Kolomyia, Ukraine…
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… were killing Jews. In collaboration with a local dentist, her boyfriend (who had since become her husband) created forged papers saying that they were…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.154 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0154
- Date:
- interview: 1992 August 11
interview: 1992 September 01
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; moving to Rome, Italy and working as a nanny for several different families; how by 1939, Hitler had influenced Mussolini's policies and foreign Jews were…
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… errors in spelling or accuracy. 13 00:01:54,780 --> 00:02:01,410 The orthodox Jews mostly that ended up in Germany and Austria 14 00:02:01,410 --> 00:02:04…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.65 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0065
- Date:
- interview: 2011 October 18
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Jewish section of town; her father warning other Jews to leave as her family left town; going to Ohrid, Macedonia; her family being saved by…
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… leave the house. They made a small bundle with clothes. On the way out, father knocked at every door warning the Jews of the impending tragedy. He…
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0299
- Date:
- interview: 1994 November 30
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, 1941 where 10,000 Jews were taken and killed in nearby Chepelevo, Belarus; escaping the ghetto with his family and future wife Lisa to Vaŭkavysk, Belarus…
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… approximately about 12,000 and out of the 12,000 we had almost 10,000 Jews, so the majority were Jewish. The city was rich with all different kinds of Jewish…
Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0194
- Date:
- interview: 2011 December 11
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… happening to Jews elsewhere in the country nor the rest of Europe; her brother’s return to Yugoslavia to fight with Tito’s partisans; the anti-Jewish…
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… part of my 14 00:00:54,030 --> 00:01:01,680 growing up years in Italy at a very incredibly 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,760 tragic time for most Jews. 16…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.299 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0299
- Date:
- interview: 1996 October 24
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s immigration to Palestine in 1933; attending cheder and public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's work as a blacksmith; his bar mitzvah…
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…RG–50.120*0299 Raviv, Natan – 3 Tapes Tape I 1:00 Natan was born in January of 1928 in Sölec. The population was 5000, and half were Jews. He…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.4 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0004
- Date:
- interview: 1990 July
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… medical and psychiatric help, food, and education for young Jews; learning the story of one juvenile refugee who fought with the partisans (Mr. Bolinsky…
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… tried to meet Jews. The first group was in Pilsen, where he met a woman with two girls who were hiding from the Germans. It was near the end of the war…
Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.57 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0057
- Special Collection:
- The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews from Germany in 1936 and begging his parents to leave; his father’s work as an architect; the Polish underground offering his father passage to…
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…, which was taught to all school children in Poland stipulated that no Jew can enter the kingdom of heaven. I came home. I was-- Probably devastated. --in a…
Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5009 | Film ID: 3158, 3159, 3160, 3161, 3162, 3163, 3164, 3165, 3166, 3167, 3168, 3169, 3170, 3171, 3172, 3173, 3174, 3175, 3176, 3177, 3178, 3179, 3180, 3181, 3182, 3183, 3184, 3185, 3186, 3187, 3188, 3189, 3190, 3734
- Film Title:
- Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Benjamin Murmelstein
- Date:
- Event: February 1976
Production: 1985
- Duration:
- 11:24:00
… to speak about the past and the Jews missing from Europe, Rome included. He says that Lanzmann has persuaded him of the importance of talking. Lanzmann…
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… you something already earlier, but to give you an answer I will say: To the extent that a Jew can be happy in exile, yes. Q: Yes? A: Yes. Q: But it is…