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1. Chamysz family photograph collection
2016.524.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.524.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1936
… 1921. The brothers co-owned an apothecary in Lwów, Poland (present day Lviv, Ukraine), and remained in Europe. Jacob married Zesul Lerner and they had…
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 … Chamysz and their families in Lwów, Poland (present day Lviv, Ukraine). Also included is a letter with multiple authors dated 27 April 1921. Languages…
2. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
… Palestine. During this time, Tuvia met Regina (Dina) Gruber, who lived in Bari DP camp. Dina was born on April 17, 1924, in Lwow, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine…
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 …) was born in Lwów, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine) to Amalia (1891‐1942) and Aron (1888‐1943) Gruber. She had one sister, Klara (1922‐1944), and one…
3. Oral history interview with Fred Gutter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0244 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0127
Date:
interview: 1999 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lwów (Poland: Voivodeship)…
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 … located, to the west of Lvov? That was located a little bit to the west of Lvov? A: This was located in the south of Poland. Q: Let’s talk about your family…
4. Sobel family papers
2014.274.1_BookEnclosure Box 1 0052
Document | Accession Number: 2014.274.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1967
undated: 
Special Collection:
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…Frederika Judyta Sobel (also known as Judwiga or Jadzia, 1924-2012) was born in Lwów (L’viv) Ukraine to Herman (1897-1950) and Salomea Sobel (1897…
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 … places--Ukraine. Poland. L’viv (Ukraine) Diaries. Photographs. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
5. Oral history interview with Felix Horn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0294
Date:
interview: 1994 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism outside of school; moving to Rivne, Ukraine and then Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) to study medicine after the war began; going to a labor camp in…
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 … he lost his family his little son in Rovno." If you remember, a little town east Poland when I escape from my home and I went to Lvov. This was him. He…
6. Oral history interview with Sigmund Strochlitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0030 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0397
Date:
interview: 1999 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Działoszyce, Poland in 1939 because of his father’s fear about the approaching war; moving alone to Lwów (L'viv, Ukraine) in 1939 while the rest of…
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 … all those seven or eight or nine days that it took me to hitchhike to eastern Poland to the city of Lvov, I don’t remember seeing on the roads -- the…
7. Oral history interview with Erna Elerat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.35 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0035
Date:
interview: 1993 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erna Elerat, born September 1920 in Oświęcim, Poland, recounts her large family's affluence; summering in mountain resorts; participating in Betar…
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 … almost normal. In November 1939, she went with her sister toward Lvov to look for their father. They were jailed for 4 days at the Tarnov border by…
8. Oral history interview with Anna Lanota
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.5 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0005
Date:
interview: 1994 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… she had obtaining the proper identification papers; working in the local orphanage alongside Ukrainians and Georgians; moving to Lvov, Poland (L'viv…
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 … alongside Ukrainians and Georgians and then moving to Lvov. She talks about finding further employment in the orphanage in Lvov and working with severely…
9. Oral history interview with Dov Dafner
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0283
Date:
interview: 1994 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Army in 1938; experiencing antisemitism before and during his time in the army; fighting near Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) against the Germans until…
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 …. A:I'm born August 27, 1916 in Sosnowitz, this is Poland. That was on the border from 1916 there was a war, and there was a triangle over there…
10. David Tennenbaum papers
1997.A.0003 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0003
Date:
inclusive: circa 1905-1949
bulk: 1932-1949
…David Tennenbaum was born Dawid Tennenbaum in Lvov, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine) in 1931 to fruit import/export business owner Jozef Tennenbaum and…
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 … Lvov, Poland (now L’viv, Ukraine) in 1931 to fruit import/export business owner Jozef Tennenbaum and Fanny (Fradel Feige) Tennenbaum (née Gruber…
11. Oral history interview with Dov Nir
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.196 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0196
Date:
interview: 1994 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1944; moving with the Red Army to Przemysl; returning to Tarnogrod; traveling from Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) to Kiev, Ukraine; moving to Lublin…
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 …. who continued to attack Jews. 7.00 Describes his voyage back to Tarnogrod where he reunited with aunt and uncle. Describes road from Lvov to Kiev where…
12. Oral history interview with Wacław Kijowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.326 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0326
Date:
interview: 2018 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wroclaw (Poland)…
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 … Summary Wacław Kijowski, born on April 17th, 1936 in the city of Stryj, however, his family is from Lwów (now L’viv, Ukraine). He describes his family…
13. Oral history interview with Samuel Gruber
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0087
Date:
interview: 1991 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Zionist organizations in his youth; going to Lwów, Poland to attend high school when he was 14; returning to Podhajce two years after he graduated to work…
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 … used in Poland, during the time of the story that you are going to be sharing with us today? A: In the story they called me Mietek, it was a Polish name…
14. Oral history interview with Hedva Zeliger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hedva Zeliger, born in Marienbad, Czechoslovakia (Mariánské Lázne, Czech Republic), discusses her family life; growing up in Przemysl, Poland; pre…
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 …, Poland, she was freed along with Poles from Majdanek. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
15. Oral history interview with Maria Pawulska Rasiej
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.83.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0700
Date:
interview: 2013 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Maria Pawulska Rasiej, born in Lvov, Poland (present day L’viv, Ukraine), describes being deported to Siberia as a child in April 1940; the arrest…
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 …? A: I was born in Lvov, Poland, and I was born on the December 8th, 1926. Q: Okay. Can you – what were your parents’ names? A: My mother was Maria also…
16. Oral history interview with Eliahu Eilam Kimel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.66.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0254
Date:
interview: 2016 February 25
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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 … Krosno, Poland. 19 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:00,610 It is Galicia. 20 00:01:00,610 --> 00:01:03,260 And when were you born? 21 00:01:03,260 --> 00:01:12…
17. Oral history interview with Socha Erika Cohen-Brüll
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.156 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0190
Date:
interview: 2021 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisławów (Biłgorajski, Poland)…
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 …, born on June 26, 1941 in Poland; her father was a teacher/professor in a Jewish day school in Stanisławów (later became Stanislav in Ukraine); her mother…
18. Oral history interview with Laura Gruenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.51 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0051
Date:
interview: 1992 January 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… two years before the Germans invaded Poland; Hanna and Abraham’s travel to Russian-controlled Lvov (L'viv, Ukraine) after the German invasion of Poland…
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 … not admitted to medical school in Poland, so he attended medical school in Prague for a year or two. He returned to Poland and attended law school in…
19. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Itzhak Nachmani was born Ignacy Krzepicki in Krakow, Poland, in 1909. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Krzepicki and his…
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 …--Personal narratives, Polish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Polish. Kraków (Poland) L’viv (Ukraine) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Iran. Iraq…
20. Oral history interview with Ava Dorfman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0317
Date:
interview: 1995 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Lwów, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine); marrying a young man she barely knew in early 1939 but never seeing him again after the war started in September 1939; the…
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 … and when? Answer: Yes. I was born in 1920, the 30th of April in ____________ Poland. Then we lived there for a while. Q. What was your name at birth? A…