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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
…Stephen Joseph Fraenkel (born Stefan, 1917-2002) was born on 28 November 1917 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Martha Fraenkel. His father Max (born…
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 … experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish…
4. Ruth Salm Perlman collection
2014.314.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2014.314.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2009
bulk: 1942-1954
…Ruth Salm was born on January 22, 1924, in Bruhl, Germany, to Julius and Jeanette Salm. Julius worked as a cantor and an animal broker, while Jenny…
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 … Perlman, including a 1942 postcard sent to her from her family in Germany, while she was living in Denmark; postcards from the family who had sheltered her…
5. 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)…
6. Oral history interview with Walter Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… uncles deciding to move the family to Stuttgart, Germany in 1936; attending an all Jewish school; the events on Kristallnacht, including the burning of the…
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 … were told that they had to go back to Germany, because their ship was not there yet. 0:34 So they went back to Cologne and were put up by a Jewish…
7. Oral history interview with Tana Basa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.5 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0005
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tana Basa (née Hecht), born April 18, 1940 in Berlin, Germany, shows pictures of her family from before the war. She discusses her father’s role as a…
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 … what was your date of birth and your place of birth. I was born April 18, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. OK. And are you married? I am. And how many children…
8. 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)…
9. 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.…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Oral history interview with Pinkus Kurnedz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.26 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0026
Date:
interview: 1987 March 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… arrival; clothing; forced labor at an ammunitions factory near Colditz, Germany; stealing food; marching to Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia in 1945; his…
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 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…
16. Oral history interview with Nancy Fordonski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0031
Date:
interview: 1982 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… then to Dresden, Germany; the bombings of Dresden and being sent with her sister on a forced march to Theresienstadt; escaping from the march and hiding…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Oral history interview with Luba Elbaum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0022
Date:
interview: 1982 January 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where she was selected along with 300 other girls to be deported to Aschersleben, Germany to work; being forced on a six-week death march to…