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1. Oral history interview with Walter Morgenbesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.337 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0337
Date:
interview: 1998 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transferred in March 1945 to Sachsenhausen, where he experienced heavy Allied bombardment; seeing the son of Stalin; being liberated on April 22, 1945; fleeing…
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 … Gypsy children. In March 1945, Walter was transferred to Sachsenhausen, where he experienced heavy Allied bombardment and saw the son of Stalin, a pilot…
2. Łódź Ghetto grave marker for a Jewish woman recovered by her daughter
2003.176.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.176.1
Date:
commemoration: 1943 January 28
recovered: 1946
… moved to Kokand, Uzbekistan, and worked as an accountant. In March 1943, Polish communists, controlled by Stalin, created the Union of Polish Patriots. In…
3. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor painting of a circular brown plate with a scene of a bride and groom standing in front of a rabbi under a red fringed chuppah
1992.113.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.113.2
Date:
depiction: 1948-1958
Artwork Title:
Jewish Wedding Scene on Brown Platter
…. Postwar Romania was chaotic and almost erupted into civil war. But by the end of 1945, an authoritarian Communist regime, backed by Stalin, was established…
4. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
5. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 1: Lucien Dreyfus collection 1903-1944
    • File 10: Diary, (Cahier G) August 1, 1943-September 1943
6. Oral history interview with Benjamin Maierchik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.97 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0097
Date:
interview: 1993 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … 1942-43. Stalingrad period. 26.00 Words of appreciation of the Russian people. Cultural life despite it all. Stalin was the Russian’s god. 32…
7. Oral history interview with Clea Shiffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.280 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0280
Date:
interview: 1995 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … traditionally observant. She loved learning, but had to go to work at 14. At 16 she joined the Bund movement and became an anti-Stalin socialist, and this became…
8. Oral history interview with Vladimir Shatzman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.244 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0244
Date:
interview: 1995 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … than the West – he saw Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia. First time he saw West. Realized that Stalin destroyed innocent people. 12.50 V also felt he was…
9. Oral history interview with Ada Willenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.203 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0203
Date:
interview: 1994 June 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … believed in Stalin. She belonged to the 'pioneers' who were young children, followed by 'comsomol' for the youth, and finally full-fledged communists. 18…
10. Oral history interview with Leib Braverman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.261 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0261
Date:
interview: 1995 November 17-1995 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … (start tape 5/5) to 13:34 KGB Investigations and Limited Choices Post Stalin time and war with Hungary. (1956-57) – more erratic political pressures.. His…
11. Oral history interview with Edith Zierer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.222 | RG Number: RG-50.562.0003
Date:
interview: 2003 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Papushka [Daddy] Stalin. And I didn’t want to, but those who would pray would get a bun and a glass of warm milk. I came home, and told mother that I was not…
12. Oral history interview with Yosef Schwartz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.215 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0215
Date:
interview: 1995 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … brother Pinchas, was taken to Lemberg [Lvov] and given the commission to paint a big likeness of Stalin. 27.56 Pinchas arranged with the family to arrive to…
13. Oral history interview with Zvi Azaria
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.5 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0005
Date:
interview: 1993 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … newspapers] we began to understand what was happening in the larger world. That is, where the Germans were located in Russia, and the love for Stalin grew from…
14. Oral history interview with Jacob Confino
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.539.6 | RG Number: RG-50.430.0006
Date:
interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, as opposed to $50 then.) Stephan Bogdanov who actually was ruling the country, instead of the Prime Minister, (who was later hanged by Stalin.) was…
15. Oral history interview with Elena Malakhovskaia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.211 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0211
Date:
interview: 1995 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … family believed government propaganda and trusted that Stalin would keep USSR safe - an issue of danger to Soviet Jews didn't come up - or so she http…
16. Oral history interview with Emrich Gonczi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.321 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0321
Date:
interview: 1997 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … places and then returned to Israel. 2:28 When Stalin died in 1953, there was an increase in anti-Semitism and he was haunted by the Secret Service. 3:00…
17. Dr. Aharon Pick diary
2000.132 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.132
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …, and in the closet one could clearly see the books of Lenin and Stalin and various propaganda books in the Russian language. The guard then showed me the…
18. Oral history interview with Yehuda Arie (Leo) Koretz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.80 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0080
Date:
interview: 1993 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the train wrote a thank you letter to Marshall Stalin in Moscow (Arie reads the letter). 23.44 Photos of the Koretz’s home in Trobitz. 24.30 Picture of…
19. Oral history interview with Moshe Markovich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.289 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0289
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …:09:00 Talks about his thoughts about his strength to survive. 14:18:00 Talks about a young Jewish general, Tchernichovskiy, who was killed by Stalin…
20. Oral history interview with Kopel Kolpanitzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.250 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0250
Date:
interview: 1995 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … and Zionist. The family appealed to Stalin. The reply said that they were investigating the changes. Ultimately, the father was condemned to 12 years of…