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1. Oral history interview with Eva N. Mandeau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.736 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0736
Date:
interview: 1985 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva N. Mandeau (née Neumann), born on May 23, 1931 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her father leaving Germany for New York City after Kristallnacht in…
2. 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
… Kristallnacht; life in Amsterdam; her father working as a pharmacist; her family’s deportation to Westerbork for six months in 1943; the kindness of their Dutch…
3. Oral history interview with Fred Spiegel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.83 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0083
Date:
interview: 2010 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… memories of Kristallnacht; being sent to Holland in the Netherlands to live with relatives; his mother’s immigration to England; going into hiding when…
4. Oral history interview with Gerard van de Beld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.533 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0024
Date:
interview: 2005 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the family with whom he lived; witnessing Kristallnacht; returning to the Netherlands; joining the police; his orders to arrest Jews in Amsterdam…
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 … Beld lived near the Dutch-German border. In 1930’s and in 1940 he spent time in Germany. He witnessed Kristallnacht. He became a policeman and was…
5. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers
2006.145.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2006.145.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1980
…, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Biographical materials include Lisette and Benno…
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 … photographs stamped "International News Photos” taken in Nazi Germany depicting Hitler and senior members of his staff, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing…
6. Oral history interview with Ruth Borsos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.417.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0035
Date:
interview: 1990 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth Borsos, born in 1923 in Frankfurt, Germany, describes her family; moving to the Netherlands after Kristallnacht in 1938; her and her father…
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 … Kristallnacht1 broke out and it was because as a revenge, as a retaliation against the Jews, because this man had murdered a German diplomat. But what I know was…
7. Oral history interview with Hella Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1286 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1286
Date:
interview: 1991 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hella Weiss (née Heilbronn), born on October 29, 1934, discusses her childhood in Lengerich, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht; her trip to…
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 … CAN REMEMBER OF ANY GROWING FEAR ON THE PART OF YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THE POLITICS At the crystal -- what do you call it -- KRISTALLNACHT. -- Kristallnacht…
8. Oral history interview with Lotte Baum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.62 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0062
Date:
interview: 1987 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Holocaust; the destruction of synagogues, businesses, and homes during Kristallnacht; moving to the Netherlands in 1941; the confiscation of her husband…
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 …:05:21,860 --> 00:05:28,770 Jewish department store, till the Kristallnacht, 1938. 99 00:05:28,770 --> 00:05:32,070 There put everything-- 100 00:05:32…
9. Oral history interview with Lotte Salus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and pressed into labor after Kristallnacht; being sent to Amsterdam, Netherlands by her father; living with other Jewish teenagers in The Hague…
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 … until the Kristallnacht. 413 00:17:07,180 --> 00:17:12,240 OK, but what did your father do when he couldn't work? 414 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13…
10. Oral history interview with Werner Weinstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1031 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1031
Date:
interview: 1991 April 18
interview: 1991 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… power; his experiences during Kristallnacht in November 1938; his family's move to Berlin, Germany, and their escape to Holland; his education there and…
11. Oral history interview with Edith Hartog Mayer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.364.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and considered himself to be a German first and a Jew second; Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, at which time her two brothers were arrested by the…
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 … God he didn't look Jewish, but they, my brothers had tried in the night of November 9, the Kristallnacht, to go illegally to Holland. And my youngest…
12. Oral history interview with Shaul Sagiv
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.141 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0141
Date:
interview: 1992 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Netherlands in 1936; how at the beginning of 1939 the political situation became tense and he joined the Zionist youth organization; Kristallnacht, after which…
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 …, Holland. Describes. 1.32 In 1936 family moved to Arden. Nurenberg laws and impressions from family visits to relatives in Germany. 1.39 Kristallnacht…
13. Oral history interview with Ruth Willdorf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381
Date:
interview: 2001 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their move to Kalkar, Germany; the antisemitism she experienced while traveling to and from school and her experiences during Kristallnacht in November…
14. Oral history interview with Richard Teig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.386.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0834
Date:
interview: 2015 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… younger; his father’s service in the Austrian Army during World War I; his father’s furniture business, which was closed on Kristallnacht; attending the…
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 … difficulties? Was there boycotting of his store? No, not till the Kristallnacht, November, '39. | for three years after Hitler comes to power 1933, 1936, your…
15. 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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 … inconvenience. All changed November 9th 1938 with Kristallnacht. 0:13 His synagogue was burnt down, and just about all of the Jewish men were arrested and sent to…
16. Oral history interview with John Franklin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.291 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0291
Date:
interview: 1994 December 08
interview: 1995 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Danner; life in Würzburg; fleeing with his family to Holland after Kristallnacht; his brother escaping to the United States in 1938 with the support of his…
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 … persecuted. 10 And Kristallnacht came and my father as 11 well as two no sound they were would not be safe 12 staying in Germany so my fathers partner his…
17. Toni Heller collection
1995.A.0176 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0176
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
…) in 1937. The couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany…
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 … couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany for the…
18. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married…
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 … worked in a factory during the war. Their son, Kurt, was successful in his attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a…
19. 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
…Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
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 … Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
20. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 50 cent note
2003.413.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.15
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
… 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands…