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1. Oral history interview with Kurt Neubauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.30 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; leaving Czechoslovakia illegally after the war; living in displaced persons game in the US zone of Germany; being sponsored by Ernest Morgensten to…
2. Oral history interview with Karel Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.26 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0026
Date:
interview: 1984 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family members and being unsuccessful in his search; moving to a displaced persons camp in Germany, where he remained until 1949; being sponsored for…
3. Oral history interview with Lisbeth Hurst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.4 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0004
Date:
interview: 1989 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
4. Oral history interview with Moshe Nurtman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.28 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0028
Date:
interview: 1986 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s block; volunteering to clear bomb debris in Weimar, Germany; being in Theresienstadt in May 1945; the death of prisoners on the journey to the camp…
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. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her…
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 … Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 73 SUMMARY Lory Cahn1, nee Grünberger, was born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany into a religious home. Her father was a…
7. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
8. Oral history interview with Aron Zylberszac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.44 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0044
Date:
interview: 1985 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … with the Jews and to make more room for themselves and to take over the Jewish businesses in the same way as they did in Germany, I should think. And…
9. Oral history interview with Berek Obuchowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.29 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0029
Date:
interview: 1986 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … people's windows, being boarded up, as if it was going to happen again, like it happened in Nazi Germany. And that's what really frightened me. And things…
10. Oral history interview with Saul Schilbkraut
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1595 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1595
Date:
interview: 1981 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
11. Oral history interview with Gertrude Löwinger Gleiss Jonas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.20 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0019
Date:
interview: 1977 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
12. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Germany. In June of 1944 the train pulled up. And we wound up in a very famous camp of…
13. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
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.…
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 … where they were...in Kovno was that a point where they stop and they clean them up before send to Germany. And the people, the Jewish peopled them…
14. Oral history interview with Peter Lom
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.32 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0032
Date:
interview: 1982 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
15. Oral history interview with Ernst Weihs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0318 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0248
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
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.…
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 … everything. And he wanted me not to go in a office...work in an office. Go out and be in the outside, in nature. So one day they went on vacation to Germany…
16. Oral history interview with Zdenka Erlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.51 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0051
Date:
interview: 1985 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…East Prussia (Germany)…
17. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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18. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
19. Oral history interview with Dr. Wilhelm ("Willy") Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.17 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0016
Date:
interview: 1977 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
20. Oral history interview with Abraham Pasternak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.5 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
publication/distribution: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Schlieben (a satellite of Buchenwald), and in Zeitz, Germany.…
21. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
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 … helped a lot of Jewish families leave Germany, but ultimately it became too late for him and his family to get out. In 1941, Irene’s mother, Lotte, was…
22. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…Siegfried Strauss (later Fred Strauss, 1898-1956) was born in Marburg, Germany to Hermann (1856-1934) and Johanna (née Wertheim, 1859-1942) Strauss…
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 …: 2016.565.1 Creator: Strauss family (Marburg :Germany) Extent: 1.33 linear feet (2 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 book enclosures, 2 oversize folders…
23. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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24. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
25. Oral history interview with Premysl Josef Dobias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.7 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0007
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the attitude of Czechoslovakian fascists; the relations with Jews; Francophile attitudes; relations with neighboring countries; visiting Berlin, Germany…
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 … certain political factors started to work on the idea that the Sudeten Germans, called at that time, should belong to Germany-- not only emigrating to…
26. Oral history interview with Hilde Sandelowsky and Otto Sandelowsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.95.1 | RG Number: RG-90.204.0001
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
27. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
28. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… lives in Italy and Germany. The collection also includes a copy of the personal narrative of Albert Nothmann, a former neighbor of the Naumann family in…
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 … documenting their postwar lives in Italy and Germany. The collection also includes a copy of the personal narrative of Albert Nothmann, a former neighbor of…
29. Oral history interview with Paul Hertz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1068 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1068
Date:
interview: 1989 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Paul Hertz childhood and adulthood in Goch, Germany; losing his job as manager of a Jewish department store in Düsseldorf when Hitler came to power…
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 … AND THIS IS PAUL HERTZ AND IM PEGGY COSTER THE INTERVIEWER. OKAY. WHERE DID YOU LIVE IN GERMANY Where do live now NO IN GERMANY WHERE DID YOU LIVE lived…
30. Oral history interview with Szaja Lida
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.10.1 | RG Number: RG-50.902.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Schlieben (Germany)…
31. Oral history interview with Caroline Blumenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.175 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0175
Date:
interview: 1981 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Caroline Blumenthal (née Schoenfeld), born in September 1900 in Cologne, Germany, discusses her family; having good relations with the non-Jewish…
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 … Restrictions: None SUMMARY Caroline1 Blumenthal, nee Schoenfeld, was born in Cologne, Germany in September 1900. Her family lived peacefully with the non-Jewish…
32. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
33. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.18
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
34. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.19
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
35. Oral history interview with Ina Rothschild and Elsa Jaeckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.120 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0120
Date:
interview: 1981 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ina Rothschild describes her life, education, and work in Germany after World War I; life through Hitler’s rise to power; experiencing changes in…
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 … 1 v. (unpaged) SUMMARY Ina Rothschild talks about her life, education and work in Germany after World War I. Both women lived through Hitler’s rise to…
36. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann papers
1999.A.0040 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0040
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1990
…, and served in World War II in the Military Intelligence Division in Germany. He married Louise (Lisl) Schwarzenberger (1907-2000), born in Maßbach to…
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 … Leipzig and Maßbach, Charlotte Süssmann’s deportation to Theresienstadt, and Emanuel Suessmann’s service in the Military Intelligence Division in Germany…
37. Oral history interview with Henry Oertelt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.8 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0008
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Oertelt, born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses the rise of the concentration camps, including Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; Hitler’s rise…
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 … advertised, are part of a course called Workshop on the Holocaust, which deals with the events that took place in Germany and Europe generally between 1933 and…
38. Oral history interview with Mayer Hersh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.17 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0017
Date:
interview: 1987 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being moved to an airfield near Stuttgart, Germany, in December 1944; his work duties and contact with German civilians; being an inmate in Gotha then…
39. Margret Hantman papers
2018.70.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.70.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2012
…Margret (Miriam) Hantman (née Simon) (b. 1926) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Willy Simon (1896-1944) and Ella Anita Stahl Simon (1901-1944). She…
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 … describing her Holocaust-era experiences in Germany and concentration camps, photographs of theatrical performances at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, a…
40. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 …:01:07,340 Sometimes, this town was Germany. 20 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,220 Sometimes, it was Poland. 21 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,810 Now, it's just…
41. Oral history interview with Gerald Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.27 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0027
Date:
interview: 1985 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gerald Adler, born June 27, 1925 in Elmshorn, Germany, describes growing up in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family; moving to Berlin, Germany…
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 …: None Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 77 SUMMARY Gerald Adler, born June 27, 1925 in Elmshorn, Germany, grew up in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family…
42. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.14
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
43. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…
44. Oral history interview with Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1454 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1454
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gabriele Silten discusses her early childhood in Berlin, Germany; her family's decision to escape to Holland in 1938; the changes she experienced…
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 … realized that something was disturbing the regular 15 routine of life and your family was trying to get away from 16 Germany and there were reasons. Tell me…
45. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.15
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
46. Oral history interview with Ruth Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.819 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0819
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth G. Silten, born on May 30, 1933 in Berlin, Germany, discusses moving to Amsterdam, Netherlands with her parents and grandmother after…
47. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Schwarcz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.103 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0103
Date:
interview: 1989 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
48. Oral history interview with Freda Silberberg Wineman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1217 | RG Number: RG-50.122.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22-1989 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lower Saxony (Germany)…
49. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
50. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.16
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…