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1. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
2. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
3. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
4. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
5. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
6. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.3_a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
7. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
… States in 1946, sailing from Alexandria, Egypt, aboard the SS President Taft. He settled in New York, married Zofia Benet Dzialoszynska in 1948, and had…
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 … States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document…
8. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police Regiment during World War II. The majority of the correspondence is between Josef Baur and his wife, Agnes Baur…
9. Goebbels; SS grave; Hans Frank parade
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.518 | RG Number: RG-60.5846 | Film ID: 4365
Date:
Event: 1941
Duration:
00:15:40
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… mostly amateur footage in both black and white and color that focuses on Europe during the pre-war and mid-war periods. The United States Holocaut Memorial…
10. Oral history interview with Philip Maisel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.82.2.5 | RG Number: RG-50.810.0005
Date:
interview: 2015
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Holocaust); the occupation of Vilnius by the Soviets and then the Germans; the persecution of Jews by Lithuanians and Germans; the massacre of Jews…
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 … volunteer at the Jewish Holocaust Centre, Melbourne Australia for over 25 years, videotaping Holocaust survivor testimonies and digitizing the collection. He…
11. Oral history interview with Saul Kagan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.441 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0514
Date:
interview: 2007 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and ethnic backgrounds who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust…
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 …, 2007 on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The interview took place in Virginia and is part of the United States Holocaust Memorial…
12. Oral history interview with Jacob Y. Raykin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.14 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0014
Date:
interview: 1980 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated…
13. Oral history interview with Jack Ring
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.77 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0077
Date:
interview: 1992 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… that he was saved by divine guidance; his discussions of the Holocaust with his daughters; and the effect of Holocaust survival upon him.…
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 … are indeed privileged to have with us a very special guest, Rabbi Jack Ring, who spent his years of the Holocaust began in Poland, and was with that…
14. Oral history interview with Leo Hanin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0026 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0036
Date:
interview: 1999 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation…
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 … in China after the war; helping organize a Jewish community in Japan; helping European Jews to escape the Holocaust and enter Japan; being liberated by…
15. Oral history interview with Algimantas Gureckas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.351 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0608
Date:
interview: 2010 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation…
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 … was surrounded by the SS, and he was forced to work in the Luftwaffe in East Prussia on manual and tactical tasks; says that he then left East Prussia…
16. Oral history interview with Lucy Cripps
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.9 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0009
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with 96 Holocaust survivors, liberators, resistance fighters, and Righteous Gentiles in the Buffalo, N.Y. area…
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 …I'm Mark Goldman for the Holocaust Resources Center. And I am Lucy Ogus Cripps, born in 1922 in Vilna. I grew up in a very close Jewish family. I had…
17. Oral history interview with Tania Rozmaryn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0067
Date:
interview: 1997 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.…
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 …,939 --> 01:09:36,720 Of course, he wore the black uniform of the SS 1262 01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,540 with the swastika and all. 1263 01:09:38,540 --> 01:09…
18. Oral history interview with Moshe Rodnitzky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.128 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0128
Date:
interview: 1993 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two…
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 …. Describes his family. He was the oldest of 5. Father was a fruit distributor and was well-to-do. Describes his Jewish education in the village and after high…
19. Oral history interview with Henny Gurko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.7 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains oral history interviews with 25 Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators recorded in preparation for the United States…
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 …,225 And then they brought us to one of the camps. 15 00:01:06,225 --> 00:01:08,820 Now, I don't remember. 16 00:01:08,820 --> 00:01:09,420 OK. 17 00:01:09…
20. Oral history interview with Avraham Tory
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0119.13 | RG Number: RG-50.471.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… October 17, 1947; his early years in Palestine; and the sequence of events that led to the publication of the “Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto…
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 …. It is not the primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 244 00:15:50,930 --> 00:15:53,900 And the SS came in then and what did…