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1. Oral history interview with Alex Mathes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.410 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0410
Date:
interview: 1981 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alex Mathes, born on May 10, 1911 in Brand (Aachen), Germany, discusses being sent to Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; his release because of a bribe…
2. Oral history interview with Herta Bregoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.799 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0799
Date:
interview: 1996 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s antisemitic legislation; her memories of Kristallnacht in 1938; her father and uncle's arrest; her and her family's deportation to Gurs, a concentration camp in…
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 … stepped out, and they were short men, very nice men, both of them were. And they would go to the bank until 1938, Kristallnacht. And then they were taken to…
3. Oral history interview with Hugo Schiller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.30 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0030
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hugo Schiller, born in Würzburg, Germany in 1931, describes his family’s background in Würzburg; his father’s arrest after Kristallnacht and…
4. Oral history interview with Harry Alexander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.4 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Alexander discusses his memories of persecutions suffered by Jews in his hometown of Leipzig, Germany, and the events of Kristallnacht in 1938…
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 … came uh, uh what you call Kristallnacht, the 8th to the 9th of November, 1938. That was when the storm troopers uh stormed your house, destroyed your…
5. Oral history interview with Yitzhak Phillip
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.173 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0173
Date:
interview: 1993 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… organization; Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen; being sent to Buna in Auschwitz in 1941; working in the Buna tire factory; his friend, Walter Blum; the march from…
6. Oral history interview with Susanne DeWitt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.969 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0969
Date:
interview: 1990 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews faced in Germany between 1934-1938; her arrest at age 4; her memories of Kristallnacht; her family's deportation to Poland and return to Germany…
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 … place. Susanne then proceeds to describe how the SS Stormtroopers broke into the Jewish Home for the Aged on Kristallnacht. It was “hit in the first wave…
7. Oral history interview with Paula Birnbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.6 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0006
Date:
interview: 1986 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brothers in Israel and her sister’s escape to England; and how Vienna changed for her after Kristallnacht and the war.…
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 …. 8:00 She was married in 1937 living with her husband in her father-in-laws's home. After Kristallnacht her husband and father-in-law were taken away…
8. Oral history interview with Jules Wallerstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.181 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0181
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany.…
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 … Jules did not endure Anti-Semitic taunts from them but in Kristallnacht - Nazis enter their home. His father is taken to the Gestapo and then to his…
9. Oral history interview with Alfred Fiks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.377.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0907
Date:
interview: 2016 August 18
interview: 2016 September 29
interview: 2016 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s experiences during Kristallnacht; his father’s in-depth letter to Max describing Kristallnacht; his father’s escape to Paris, France; his father arranging visas…
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 …,066 --> 00:40:24,770 And, as a matter of fact, if and when 646 00:40:24,770 --> 00:40:27,980 we get to talk about Kristallnacht, 647 00:40:27,980 --> 00:40:29…
10. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
…. Walter grew up to become an electrician, while Kurt became a tailor. Soon after the Kristallnacht, the brothers obtained visas to the United States. They…
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 … one brother, Kurt, born in 1919. Walter grew up to become an electrician, while Kurt became a tailor. Soon after the Kristallnacht, the brothers…
11. Ernest Marx photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.177.2
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
…, and then Speyer in 1933. During Kristallnacht, Ernie and his father were arrested and deported to Dachau. They were released in December 1938, and…
12. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
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… 31 March 31 1938. Kurt was arrested the day after Kristallnacht and brought to a police station. He was beaten severely and then transferred to…
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 … 31 March 1938. Kurt was arrested the day after Kristallnacht and brought to a police station. He was beaten severely and then transferred to Dachau…
13. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
… had grown, and during the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, all of the teachers at the orphanage were arrested. While Fritz was in Frankfurt, his…
14. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.41
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Gurs - 1940: Trying to Cope with the Merciless Heat - Summer 1940
Artwork Title:
Marianne Beerel - torso
…, England to work as an au pair. Following the nation-wide Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9th, 1938, Arthur was one of almost 10,000 Jewish men arrested by…
15. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman sleeping on her side by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.42
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Gurs - 1940: Trying to Cope with the Merciless Heat - Summer 1940
Artwork Title:
Marianne Beerel - dozing
…, England to work as an au pair. Following the nation-wide Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9th, 1938, Arthur was one of almost 10,000 Jewish men arrested by…
16. Oral history interview with Ralph Hockley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1205 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1205
Date:
interview: 1990 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Kristallnacht in 38. WERE YOUR PARENTS RELIGIOUS Observing my father was not my mother was. My father was not religious. He was like say about my 10 father he had…
17. Odenheimer family papers
2017.241.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 04
Document | Accession Number: 2017.241.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2003
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 … Kristallnacht. Kurt and Ilse immigrated to the United States in August 1939 with their father’s sister, Frieda Elsas, and were picked up in New York by their…
18. Oral history interview with Ralph M. Hockley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0873
Date:
interview: 2016 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … immediate. Anybody who tells you that actions against the Jews in Germany started with Kristallnacht doesn't know what he's talking about. It started right…
19. Oral history interview with Marthe Hoffnung Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0416 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0374
Date:
interview: 1996 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Germany, and they lived in Dusseldorf, which is not very far from Metz. And after Kristallnacht, the next morning, their daughter called us. It was her…
20. Oral history interview with Regine Ginsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.142 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0183
Date:
interview: 2010 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …,780 --> 00:19:41,370 But didn't do any good. 417 00:19:41,370 --> 00:19:43,140 They went right around it. 418 00:19:43,140 --> 00:19:44,340 And Kristallnacht…