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1. Oral history interview with Ilse Kaye, Robert Kaye, and Helga Franks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.18 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0018
Date:
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s attempts to leave the country; being shocked by Kristallnacht; her father’s arrest and deportation to Buchenwald; going with her family to Shanghai, China…
2. Oral history interview with Alfred Brosan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.185 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0185
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interview: 1991 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht for Shanghai, China; traveling via Trans-Siberian Railroad from Berlin, Germany to Shanghai; arriving in Shanghai December 1938; his family…
3. Oral history interview with Ruth Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.378 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0378
Date:
interview: 1993 May 14
interview: 1993 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s rise to power in 1933; her education; her family life; the changes she experienced after Kristallnacht in November 1938; her father's arrest and release…
4. Oral history interview with Elli Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.929 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0929
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interview: 1992 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… schoolmates; her education and working life; the atmosphere she witnessed in Berlin, Germany in 1938; the damage she observed after Kristallnacht and the…
5. Oral history interview with Heintz Volman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.294 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0294
Date:
interview: 1996 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s business; Nazis vandalizing their home and beating his parents on Kristallnacht and his arrest for defending them; local imprisonment, then transfer to…
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 … concentration camp. 19:28 The Frankfurt there was a big synagogue with an organ, and a smaller, orthodox one (which burned in Kristallnacht). The only remaining…
6. Oral history interview with Gerald Liebenau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.213.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0670
Date:
interview: 2012 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… parents seeking an affidavit for immigration to the United States from a relative who lived there (David Miller); the events of Kristallnacht; their…
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 … Kristallnacht that I Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word generated with 3…
7. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Price
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.146.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0224
Date:
interview: 2014 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; going to his father's haberdashery store after it was destroyed on Kristallnacht and picking up the few remaining clothes and feeling confused about what…
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 … it was at least a year before Kristallnacht. 210 00:11:32,580 --> 00:11:33,990 Yeah, yeah. 211 00:11:33,990 --> 00:11:38,070 But up to that time, do…
8. Oral history interview with Marion Wolff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.360 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0596
Date:
interview: 2010 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; how her mother made and sold leather flowers; unknowingly signing up for the Kindertransport; preparing to leave on the Kindertransport and her…
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 …. Interview with Marion Wolff October 16, 2010 14 Kristallnacht, of people marching in the streets, with the boots, and the heil Hitlers, and what have you – Q…
9. Embroidered apron made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
10. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
11. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
12. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
13. Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
14. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
15. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
16. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
17. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… Kristallnacht. She moved to Vienna and hid in the home of her friend, actress Dorothea Neff (1903-1986). Schmitt and Driessen helped sustain her with parcels of…
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 …) Driessen (1910‐1990), but lost her ownership of the business following Kristallnacht. She moved to Vienna and hid in the home of her friend, actress…
18. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
… increasingly harsh. Carl’s business was not restricted and it converted to produce war rations for the Army. After the Kristallnacht destruction of November 9-10…
19. Used Collonil leather oil brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
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Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.46
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… sailed from Holland on the MS Statendam for New York. He Americanized his name to Carl. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10 1938, Ella and…
20. Oral history interview with William Perl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10
interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the, one the sixth or seventh of November, 1938, two or three days before the Kristallnacht. And here I was not ___________ and one day, after, before…