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1. Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee
2018.340.2 closed side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.340.2
Date:
depiction: 1940
…Leather bi-fold wallet with two photographs glued inside owned by a German Jewish refugee…
2. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds
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Film | Accession Number: 2015.255 | RG Number: RG-60.1568 | Film ID: 4121
Date:
Event: 1937-1942
Duration:
00:12:12
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds…
3. Jacob Kriegel papers
2017.110.1 Box 1 Folder 40 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2017.110.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1970
bulk: 1939-1958
… persecution targeting Polish Jews within the Reich as well those who lived in Poland following German occupation in 1939. From the late 1930s through the early…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the efforts of American Jacob Kriegel, originally of…
4. Oral history interview with Eva Cooper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0157 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0047
Date:
interview: 1999 June 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; living in New York and assimilating into American society; teaching in New York City; marrying her first husband and starting a family; her divorce…
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 … Hungarian Jews. Did you ever see a movie called, “Ship of Fools”? He said, “After all, I’m a German.” Well, right now I’m saying, “After all, I’m an American…
5. Oral history interview with Adi Eisenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.233.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0230
Date:
interview: 2014 August 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Polish, German, and Yiddish; being frightened in September 1939 when the Germans invaded; moving to his grandparents’ house; his grandparents’ businesses…
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 … he even went for Mincha maarev daily. I’m not sure about that. Q: What language did you speak at home? A: Polish, German. Polish more. Again at the…
6. Oral history interview with Harry Gelb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.249 | RG Number: RG-50.549.04.0001
Date:
interview: 2001 December 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… opportunity; his children; travelling through Europe and visiting Auschwitz; Polish influences in his life; the bond he feels with children of survivors; and…
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 … mother is clearly European born, you can tell that just by her accent, and my father is an American Jew. A-A -- their personality types are also quite…
7. Oral history interview with Jacob Wiener
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0425
Date:
interview: 1996 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to immigrate to Canada with the help of a cousin; selling their house to a German to pay for their tickets to Canada; receiving a summons to Berlin…
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 … Boulevard in Baltimore. And I started learning there. Q: Were there other Germans there or was it mostly just you mixed with Americans? A: They were, they…
8. Oral history interview with David Brombart
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.93 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0170
Date:
interview: 2007 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…David Brombart, born on August 3, 1933 in Brussels, Belgium, discusses his childhood; the German invasion in May 1940 and being able to attend school…
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 … -- n-not of the same camp. The German, they -- they were in camp in -- in -- in France for -- for -- for a -- for Central American citizen were not in…
9. Oral history interview with Peter Phillips
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0420 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0069
Date:
interview: 1997 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… duties, he worked as a teacher and Boy Scout leader for American and German boys; after leaving the Army, working first for the New York Times, a newspaper…
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 … accuracy. They refused to speak German. 902 00:46:21,940 --> 00:46:24,940 903 00:46:24,940 --> 00:46:27,250 My mother was the most chauvinistic American 904…
10. Oral history interview with Marcel Lissek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.43 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0043
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; life in hiding and only seeing his mother a few times during the war; having to wear a yellow star; narrowly escaping the Germans on several occasions…
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 …, fenced in, and the Germans themselves, the prisoners now, who were prisoners of the American GIs, were in the courts. And we'd always taunt them. Because…
11. Oral history interview with Curt Jellin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.21 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0021
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Americans versus Germans.…
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 … -- British, American, some of German background and they gave me a sheet of paper to read this particular piece of paper -- a script. After I finished the Navy…
12. Oral history interview with Fred Bachner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0032
Date:
interview: 1999 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; finding his brother near Dachau; his liberation by American forces; how he was treated under the American occupation; the physical attacks on Jewish Kapos…
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 … German soldier’s occupation visible. The American were in hundred percent control and all you can see is what -- what I knew were -- how -- how a camp, the…
13. Oral history interview with Robert R. Max
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.286.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0819
Date:
interview: 2015 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his participation in the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944; being captured by the German Wehrmacht and narrowly escaping being shot; being a slave…
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 … know, World War II was partially financed by the American people. There were signs all over, buy war bonds. And so he bought war bonds for me. I was just…
14. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s role as a lieutenant in the army and his capture by the Germans in June 1940; her husband’s escape; her parents and sister fleeing to North Africa via…
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 … Germans. This was during the ’39-’40 war, during what you Americans call the Phony War; after that, the people were of course no more secure there than they…
15. Oral history interview with Emanuel Mandel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.205 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0072
Date:
interview: 2003 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel discusses living in Israel; immigrating to the United States; life in New York and then Philadelphia; becoming an American citizen…
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 …Emanuel Mandel discusses living in Israel; immigrating to the United States; life in New York; moving to Philadelphia; becoming an American citizen…
16. Oral history interview with Henry Plitt
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0181
Date:
interview: 1992 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Holocaust in American life.…
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 … American jeep, with...I'm in the front right seat and I got a German driver, SS, and in those days, to make it even more precarious and the hipe and what…
17. Oral history interview with John H. Lang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.356 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0594
Date:
interview: 2010 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … name and saying in German, best wishes for the future, maybe a little poem, maybe a little picture. But I do have a book like that at home, with about…
18. Oral history interview with Mieczyslaw Madejski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.42 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0074
Date:
interview: 2004 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mieczyslaw Madejski, born in Warsaw, Poland on June 26, 1923, describes his Catholic upbringing; how his advanced proficiency in the German language…
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 … five years, I get the American citizenship. Q: What citizenship is your son? A: Amer -- United State. United State. Q: Do you dream in Polish, German or…
19. Oral history interview with Jack Ahrens
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0046 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0037
Date:
interview: 1999 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending the University of Illinois; becoming a member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity; changing his name when he became an American citizen; his feelings about…
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 … called me Jack. Remember, she was American born. Q: When did you get married? A: ‘51. Q: What was your wife’s name? A: Selma Kaplan. Q: With a K or a C…
20. Oral history interview with Lore J. Schore
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.368 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0605
Date:
interview: 2010 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… domestic visa; how, as a result of the Nationality Act of 1940, she was able to immigrate to the United States because her father was American; meeting her…
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 …: Lichtenstein, in German, yes. Q: Where in Germany are you from? A: Berlin. Q: From Berlin. Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood in Berlin? How much…