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1. Oral history interview with Marian Turzanski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.73 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0073
Date:
interview: 1983 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brothers became messengers; the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars in December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin; the…
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 … messengers. He describes the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars, December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin, in great detail…
2. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
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Save Their Stories
… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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3. Oral history interview with Doris Fuchs Greenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0086
Date:
interview: 1990 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work; the Russian troops liberating her in May 1945 at the farm; going to Berlin, Germany and then Bergen-Belsen after the war as a displaced person…
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 … in the northern part of Germany near Rostock. I was in Külingsborn, and she was in Bornhagen. And we were there until May, I think, 5. We were…
4. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
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 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
5. Oral history interview with Esther Terner Raab
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.378.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0184
Date:
interview: 1990 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; remaining hidden until 1944, when the region in which she hid was freed by the Soviet Red Army; following the Red Army to Berlin, Germany and settling there…
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 … know? And everybody sit in the house and they didn't go.... And that was the war. But it wasn't like this. The first Friday when Germany declared war…
6. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
7. Oral history interview with Irmgard Jahndorf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.23 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0023
Date:
interview: 1990 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Germany.…
8. Oral history interview with Marty Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0079
Date:
interview: 1990 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where he was a track athlete chosen to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Germany; being one of two Jews on the United States Olympic track team…
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 … made the team; and, uh, at the time there was talk of a boycott. Uh, a boycott because of Nazi Germany. And the games were being held in Berlin, of…
9. Oral history interview with Ruediger Mack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.397 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0397
Date:
interview: 1987 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruediger Mack, born on October 7, 1918 in Ranzing, Germany (east of Berlin), discusses his early life and family; serving as a German officer in…
10. Oral history interview with Siegmund Weltlinger
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.148.0014
Date:
interview: 1972 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish councils--Germany--Berlin.…
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 … did not leave Germany after the Nuremberg laws. As a former combatant he believed nobody would harm him. He trusted in German jurisdiction and he did…
11. Oral history interview with Hans Herzberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.29 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0029
Date:
interview: 1988 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Herzberg, born in 1919, describes growing up in Hannover, Germany; his father, who was a general physician; his younger brother; being the only…
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 …; your childhood years in Germany. A. I lived in the city Hanover. Q. What year were you born? A. 1919. I lived a comfortable life. My father was a…
12. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …: 2016.187.1 Creator: Pistiner family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
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13. Oral history interview with Hans Braun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.3 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0003
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Braun, born in Hannover, Germany in 1923, describes his family, who were German Sinti (Romanies); being part of a small carnival and traveling…
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 … Hanover, Germany on June 3, 1923. His family were German Sintis (a gypsy tribe). They had a small carnival and traveled around Germany during the summer and…
14. 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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15. Oral history interview with Adrian Kowalski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1714 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1714
Date:
interview: 1984 August 29-1984 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bombing, Aerial--Germany--Berlin.…
16. Ilse Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0589 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0589
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
…Ilse Loewenberg (1908-2001) was born to shop owners Simon Berghausen (1870-1943) and Hannchen (Goldschmidt) Berghausen (b. 1880) in Büren, Germany…
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 … Ilse Loewenberg’s experiences as a member of an underground resistance group and her imprisonment in Berlin, Germany from 1943-1945. Included is a…
17. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel…
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 … lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel…
18. Oral history interview with Carol Steinhardt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1439 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1439
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carol Steinhardt discusses her childhood in a village near Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; her education; the antisemitism she experienced; her…
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 … unidentified was born in Germany near Neu FrankfortamMain. Do you want to know the date It was 1925. As matter of fact in 1933 Hitler started to occupy Germany…
19. Oral history interview with Hertha Beese
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.54 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0054
Date:
interview: 1983 October 12-1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Hertha Beese in Berlin, Germany on October 15, 1983. The United States…
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 … Beese, nee Scholz, was born in Berlin, Germany September 10, 1902 into a non-Jewish German family. Her parents were active in the Social Democratic party…
20. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Heinz Stephan Lewy was born on March 11, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Arthur and Gertrude Puls Lewy. Arthur…