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1. Oral history interview with Patrick Costrine, Samuel Durfey, Stephen Hord, and Joseph Dietrich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.7 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0007
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interview: 1990 August
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … campaigns in North Africa, Italy, Southern France and then Germany. They reached the concentration camp Dachau, near Munich, early in May 1945 but were not…
2. Oral history interview with Charles Sandler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.50 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0050
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 … visitor, Charles R. Sandler. Charles Sandler was a army liberator of two concentration camps, of Mauthausen and Gusen, on May 5, 1945. Charles, would you…
3. Oral history interview with Mitchell Falenski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.16 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0016
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interview: 1990 July
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 … entered Poland, 1939. '39, right. So how did your life change after that? After that, there was a little bit shocking, as you probably know what happened…
4. Oral history interview with Alfred Haber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.29 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0029
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5. Oral history interview with Peter Traub
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.57 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0057
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 … September 1, 1939. It began much sooner. It began, I would say, already in the 19th century, second half of the 19th century, where some prominent…
6. Oral history interview with Jack Heisler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.65 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0065
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interview: 1991 July 08
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 … first time they heard from anybody that somebody survived. All right. So Jack, it's 1939. And the war breaks out. And how does it affect you and your…
7. Oral history interview with Marvin Palanker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.48 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0048
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 … been cut to a fraction of the distance. And perhaps, we might have ended the war much sooner. Maybe that was the anticipation, too, that the war would…
8. Oral history interview with Jack Ellis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.14 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0014
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interview: 1990 July
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 … day were you liberated? April? April, yeah, when-- April, May. 1945. Can you describe that liberation day? We looked out, and we saw British. You could…
9. Oral history interview with Samuel Friedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.24 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0024
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 … liberation day? My liberation day was 1st of May 1945. It was Patton's army. The war was still on. And we were in a town near Munich in Germany. And the…
10. Oral history interview with Henry Joseph
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.32 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0032
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interview: 1975
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 … generations. Had anybody served in World War I? Yes, my father and three of his brothers served in World War I. In fact, one of the brothers was injured, 80% an…
11. Oral history interview with Sara Eisen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.12 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0012
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 …th, 1945. Is that when you were liberated? That's when we were liberated. The Russian liberate us. What was that, liberation? We knew that's going to be…
12. Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.34 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0034
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 …. It was in the summer of 1939, just a couple of months before the war broke out. Where was that taken? That was taken in Krynica, which was not too…
13. Oral history interview with Morris Lipson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.42 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0042
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 … beginning of April 1945. Did you know that the war was going badly for the Germans at that time? Not exactly, but we knew it's bad. Because they forced us in…
14. Oral history interview with Frances Kornmehl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.37 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0037
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 … then? What happened? Well, the war broke out. Could you continue with your schooling? No. You see that it's not like-- when the Germans came in in 1939…
15. Oral history interview with Anna Post
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.49 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0049
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 … back to the day of liberation, we're liberated. And we couldn't believe. As I said, go a little farther you will see therefore the trees are burnt. Just…