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1. American religious responses to Kristallnacht / edited by Maria Mazzenga.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.255 .A64 2009
Published:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Availability
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Public opinion.…
2. Annelies Sabatowski letters
2005.142 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.142
Date:
creation: 1938-1939
…Annelies Sabatowski (1927-1943) was born on October 20, 19127 in Dresden, Germany to Isidor (Izidor, 1897-1943) and Jetka (Jeti) Sabatowski (1903…
3. Arthur Kerdemann papers
1995.A.0217.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0217.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1994
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Dachau.…
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 … about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org Dachau (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Dachau. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
4. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
… Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name the perpetrators who…
5. Bloch family papers
1998.A.0160 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0160
Date:
inclusive: 1895-1996
…Norbert Bloch (1896-1977) was part owner of the Seesen, Germany department store Bloch & Bremer, established by Bloch's father, Josef Bloch, and…
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 … note Norbert Bloch, born August 29, 1896, was part owner of the Seesen, Germany department store Bloch & Bremer, established by Bloch's father, Josef…
6. A boy Avenger, a Nazi diplomat, and a murder in Paris / Jonathan Kirsch, in conversation with author Louise Steinman.
Publication
Author/Creator:
Kirsch, Jonathan, 1949-
Published:
[Los Angeles, Calif.] : [Los Angeles Public Library], ℗2013
Availability
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.…
7. Crystal Night oral history interview
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.8 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0008
Date:
interview: 1988 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Five individuals who lived in Germany and Austria before, during, or after Kristallnacht discuss their experiences. The interviewees describe the…
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 … Germany and Austria that were filled with our ancestors, our brothers, and our sisters, our grandparents, our great-grandparents perhaps. We commemorate the…
8. --dass wir nicht erwünscht waren : Novemberpogrom 1938 in Frankfurt am Main : Berichte und Dokumente / Gottfried Kössler, Angelika Rieber, Feli Gursching (Hg.).
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G4 F7432 1993
Published:
Frankfurt : Dipa-Verlag, [1993]
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--History--20th century--Sources.…
9. Dem Vergessen entgegentreten : Reden zum 50. Jahrestag der Pogrome 1938 / Henry G. Brandt, Michael Daxner, Leo Trepp.
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Publication
Author/Creator:
Brandt, Henry G.
Published:
Oldenburg : Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1989
Availability
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
10. Deutscher Bürger und verfolgter Jude : Novemberpogrom und KZ Sachsenhausen 1937 bis 1939 / Hans Reichmann ; bearbeitet von Michael Wildt.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G5 R45 1998
Author/Creator:
Reichmann, Hans, 1900-1964
Published:
München : R. Oldenbourg, 1998
Availability
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
11. Die "Reichskristallnacht" in Schleswig-Holstein : der Novemberpogrom im historischen Kontext / herausgegeben von Rainer Hering.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.36.S35 R45 2016 c. 1
Published:
Hamburg : Hamburg University Press, Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, [2016]
©2016
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…Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Schleswig-Holstein--Anniversaries, etc.…
12. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"
2014.485.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.485.2
Date:
creation: circa 1939
…Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde (1877-1949) was born to Louis and Therese (nee Bab) Wilde in Meseritz-Stadt, Germany. He had three brothers, Max (1875…
13. Four days of Kristallnacht in Hessen / by Stephen Denker.
Publication
Author/Creator:
Denker, Stephen
Published:
[Place of publication not identified] : Lehrhaus, 2018
Availability
…Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Nentershausen (Hesse)…
14. Fritz Gutenstein postcard from Dachau concentration camp
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0097 | RG Number: RG-10.167
Date:
creation: 1938 November 18
… am Rhein, Germany. He reports on his arrival in the camp and asks for news from home.…
15. Fritz Rosenthal family papers
1996.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1995
…Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911 to Dr. Karl Rosenthal and Claire Rosenthal (nee Buschhoff). He attended school in…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, May 2012 Biographical note Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911…
16. Gary Heymann photograph collection
2018.544.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.544.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1979
bulk: 1936-1938
…Gary Heymann (born Gerhard Heymann, 1923-2016) was born in Germany to Hartwig (1896-1993, son of Solms and Adele Heymann) and Helene (née Rosner…
17. Gerd Leston collection
1995.A.0255 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0255
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
18. The German pogrom of November 1938 and the reaction of American Jewry / by Alfred Gottschalk.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G3315 G67 1988
Author/Creator:
Gottschalk, Alfred
Published:
New York : Leo Baeck Institute, 1988
Availability
…Germany--Foreign public opinion, American.…
19. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
…Heinrich Stern (1882-1949) was born and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva…
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 … and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva. Heinrich became a notary and lawyer, and…
20. Henry and Grete Salomon collection
1995.A.0370 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0370
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1961
bulk: 1936-1948
…Heinz “Henry” Salomon (1908-1992) was born in Werne, Germany to Siegmund and Rosa Salomon. His family owned and operated a butcher store, until the…
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 … collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in…
21. Henry Rosenthal collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.556.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1997
undated: 
…Henry Rosenthal (born Heinz) was born on October 5, 1926 in Erkenschwick, Germany to Georg Rosenthal (b. 1894) and Hedwig Rosenthal (Hete?, née…
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 … (born Heinz) was born on October 5, 1926 in Erkenschwick, Germany to Georg Rosenthal (b. 1894) and Hedwig Rosenthal (Hete?, née Auerbach, b. 1891 to Simon…
22. Irma Gideon collection
1997.A.0096 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0096
Date:
undated: 
…Irma Gideon (née Frank, 1912-2006) was born on May 27, 1912 in Oberlustadt, Germany to Jacob Frank (April 19, 1876-October 28, 1948) and Bertha Frank…
23. Josef Broniatowski correspondence
2000.30 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.30
Date:
creation: 1938
…Josef Broniatowski was expelled from Germany on October 28, 1938, along with other Polish Jews. He described the experience in letters to his sons…
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 … his family’s expulsion from Germany during the so‐called Polenaktion and the news of Kristallnacht. Languages: German Administrative…
24. Julius Beer papers
1995.A.0680 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0680
Date:
inclusive: 1993-1995
…Julius Beer was born on June 16, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany to Salka and Robert Beer. He had a sister, Hella Beer. The family moved to Antwerp, Belgium…
25. Klaus Langer papers
1994.A.0322 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0322
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Klaus, his parents, and his grandmother Mina settled in Essen, Germany, in 1936. Klaus was a member of a Zionist youth group and, at times, his membership…
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 … in March 1937 while living in Essen, Germany. In his diary Klaus writes about daily life, family, friends, and his involvement in a Zionist…
26. Kristallnacht : the Nazi terror that began the Holocaust / James M. Deem.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.255 .D44 2011
Author/Creator:
Deem, James M.
Published:
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2012
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…Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Juvenile literature.…
27. Kristallnacht : the Nazi night of terror / Anthony Read and David Fisher.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G3315 R426 1989
Author/Creator:
Read, Anthony
Published:
New York : Times Books, c1989
Availability
…Antisemitism--Germany.…
28. Kristallnacht 1938 / Alan E. Steinweis.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.255 .S74 2009
Author/Creator:
Steinweis, Alan E.
Published:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Availability
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.…
29. Kristallnacht 1938, as experienced then and understood now / Gerhard L. Weinberg.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.255 .W45 2009
Author/Creator:
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
Published:
Washington, D.C. (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2126) : Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Hannover--Biography.…
30. Kristallnacht and living in Nazi Germany / Ann Byers.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.255 .B94 2015
Author/Creator:
Byers, Ann
Published:
New York : Rosen Publishing, 2015
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…Kristallnacht and living in Nazi Germany / Ann Byers.…
31. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
2012.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.191.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2011
… Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.…
32. Max Reiner papers
2015.299.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2015.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1944
undated: 
… and Germany prior to emigration, written 1940. The text was written in response to a project at Harvard University in 1940, seeking autobiographical…
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 … Czernowitz and Vienna, describing his experiences in Austria and Germany prior to emigration, written 1940 in response to a project at Harvard University in…
33. Minnen av Reichskristallsnacht i Duisburg 1938 / Eva Lecerof.
Publication
Author/Creator:
Lecerof, Eva, 1936-
Published:
Hjärup, Sverige : Eva Lecerof, 2008
Special Collection:
Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Availability
…Access to this digital memoir made possible by USHMM on behalf of and with the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
34. The Nentershausen synagogue / Dr. Stephen Denker.
Publication
Author/Creator:
Denker, Stephen
Published:
Neu-Anspach/Taunus : Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark, 2018
Availability
…Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark (Neu-Anspach, Germany)…
35. Oral history interview with Abraham Grossman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.459 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0459
Date:
interview: 1991 March 26
interview: 1991 June 19
interview: 1991 October 31
interview: 1991 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abraham Grossman discusses his childhood in Güstrow, Germany; the antisemitism he endured while in school; the restrictions placed on Jews under the…
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 …. 18 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:09,300 I was born in a small town in Germany 19 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:11,490 in the province of Mecklenburg. 20 00:02:11…
36. Oral history interview with Adda Gerstel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.20 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0020
Date:
interview: 1999 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Adda Gerstel discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); her education in a private school and her graduation from business…
37. Oral history interview with Agnes Broschinski, Gertrud Friedrich Braun, Gerhard Braun, and Konrad Stein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.205.12 | RG Number: RG-50.719.0012
Date:
interview: 1991 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
38. Oral history interview with Albert Lewin and Fritz Othenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.19 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0019
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fritz Othenheimer describes his long lineage of German ancestors; living in Constance (Konstanz), Germany; how his parents owned a small menswear…
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 …- -CONTENTS- Fritz Othenheimer 01:30 Fritz explains his long lineage of German ancestors. Many of his family members served Germany in World War I, including…
39. Oral history interview with Alexander Katten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.633 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0633
Date:
interview: 1990 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Mr. Katten's childhood in Berlin, Germany, the events of the Kristallnacht in November 1938, and Mr. Katten's experiences…
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 … DATE IS JANUARY 27 1990. WHERE WERE YOU BORN was born in Berlin Germany. am one of the 36 children that survived underground in Germany itself. WHEN WERE…
40. Oral history interview with Alexander Kuechel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.1 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alexander Kuechel, born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany, describes witnessing Hitler’s rise to power including the boycott of Jewish businesses, the…
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 …Alexander Kuechel Virtual Book Alexander Kuechel was born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He witnessed Hitler’s rise to power including the boycott of…
41. 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…
42. Oral history interview with Alfons Glaser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.255 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0255
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfons Glaser, born on August 24, 1925 in Berlin, Germany, discusses anti-Jewish laws; Kristallnacht; traveling to Shanghai, China with mother in May…
43. Oral history interview with Alfred Amkraut
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.657 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0657
Date:
interview: 1993 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfred Amkraut was born on September 21, 1926 in Saarbruecken (Saarbrücken), Germany. Alfred was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home near the town…
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 …'t capable of running the store, but long before World War I my grandparents left for Germany. I guess economic conditions weren't too great. My grandfather on…
44. Oral history interview with Alfred Brosan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.185 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0185
Date:
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…
45. Oral history interview with Alfred Cotton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.169 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0169
Date:
interview: 1999 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfred Cotton (né Baumwollspinner), born on December 29, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses his childhood in Hamburg; his Polish parents; his father…
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 …: Alfred Cotton (nee: Baumwollspinner) was born on December 29, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an only child, and his parents were Polish citizens, and…
46. 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
…Dr. Alfred I. Fiks, born on June 2, 1931 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his parents and their immigration to Germany from Poland; his father’s service…
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 …,880 --> 00:01:11,895 And the place is Berlin, Germany. 23 00:01:11,895 --> 00:01:15,220 24 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
47. Oral history interview with Alfred Frenkel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.43 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0043
Date:
interview: 1992 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfred Frenkel, born in 1920 in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland), discusses his family and childhood; joining a Zionist Hechalutz group…
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 … tried in vain to leave Germany. Sister was sent to England. 1.23 March 1939. He went with his group to Holland to Vierengen[?] in North Holland, a place…
48. Oral history interview with Alfred Schnog
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.34 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0142
Date:
interview: 2001 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … Alfred Schnog RG-50.106*0142 Born January 25, 1931 in Cologne, Germany Twin brother Norbert Father - businessman in a metal trading firm Applied for…
49. Oral history interview with Alice Barzilay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.3.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0218
Date:
interview: 2014 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 …,430 --> 00:30:34,690 Did you talk about Germany? 733 00:30:34,690 --> 00:30:35,910 Did you talk about those-- 734 00:30:35,910 --> 00:30:36,700 I'm not sure…
50. Oral history interview with Alice Bloomfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.756 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0756
Date:
interview: 2003 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alice Bloomfield discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her mother's death, followed by her father's remarriage; her education and work life…