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1. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
2. Oral history interview with Peter Gersch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.15 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0015
Date:
interview: 1983 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… four days until the US Army arrived; being put in homes with other former prisoners in Floss, Germany; his father’s death in Gross Rosen; the liberation…
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 … Germany, and from Belgium. And at the end, in ’44, they brought a lot of people from Hungary. Q: Can you tell me what a typical day was like at this camp? A…
3. Oral history interview with David Burdowski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0012
Date:
interview: 1982 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Forst to work on the Autobahn; being taken to work in a paper factory in Germany for a year and a half; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943; being…
4. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being…
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 … morning, I was woken and told that the Germany invaded Russia and they're going to be in our town any day, the German army, and we have to leave because…
5. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
6. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
7. Oral history interview with Harold Singer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1425 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1425
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
8. Oral history interview with C. J. Williams
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.96 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0096
Date:
interview: 1980 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leipzig (Germany)…
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 … was a lot of hunger in Germany, too, certainly during the war. A: Even after the war. If a German orphanage needed something, the GIs would empty their…
9. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
10. Oral history interview with John Glustrom, Leo Pine, and Dennis Wile
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.4 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0004
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
11. Sidney Stenzler papers
1994.A.0231 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0231 | RG Number: RG-19.035
Date:
circa 1945
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 … (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Landsberg am Lech. Jewish refugees‐‐Germany‐‐Landsberg am Lech. Soldiers‐‐United States‐‐Correspondence…
12. Walter Furman papers
1996.A.0131 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0131
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… 1945, traveled through Germany as a soldier, making stops at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Mr. Furman died in 2010 in Arizona.…
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 …, and in 1945, traveled through Germany as a soldier, making stops at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Mr. Furman died in 2010 in Arizona…
13. Oral history interview with Edouard Victor Michel Izac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.50 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0050
Date:
interview: 1981 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany…
14. Oral history interview with Kurt Kupferberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.16 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0016
Date:
interview: 1981 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kurt Kupferberg, born in September 1907 in Berlin, Germany, describes his observant, middle-class family, who were originally from Galicia; how after…
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 …, Germany. My parents come from Galicia, formerly Austria, to Germany and settled in Berlin. My father was a tailor. He never was a German citizen, because…
15. Oral history interview with Ernest Lorge
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.43 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0043
Date:
interview: 1984 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)…
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 …/1916, left Germany to US 1936; Rabbinical studies; after ordination, joined the U.S. Army 69 th Infantry Division; Spring 1945, first American chaplain…
16. Oral history interview with Joseph Benson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.9 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0009
Date:
interview: 1984 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… flight training and mastering all facets in a short time; his plane being shot down over Germany during an early combat mission; being discovered by the…
17. Oral history interview with Julian Reuter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0259
Date:
interview: 2016 December 01
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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 … the name you were born with? A: Yeah. Q: Yes. And where were you born and when were you born? A: I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. December 21…
18. Oral history interview with Hanna Zwang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.82 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0082
Date:
interview: 1986 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hanna Zwang, born in 1927 in Mosbach, Germany, describes her family’s history in Mosbach; her father’s store; her sister’s move to the United States…
19. Oral history interview with Robert Drennan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.125 | RG Number: RG-50.618.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… near Cham, Germany; and his impressions of SS officers staffing the camps.…
20. Oral history interview with David Keller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.332 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0332
Date:
interview: 2000 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…