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1. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
Date:
use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
…th Signal Service Battalion. As a translator and teletype operator, he was responsible for sending and receiving messages in Section Headquarters located in…
2. Drawing
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Object | Accession Number: 2001.58.12
Date:
creation: 1946 August 31
… via testing conducted by the United States Army. He worked in Nuremberg, Germany, as a court interpreter, translating English into German, during part…
3. Oral history interview with Felix Transport
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.343.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0235
Date:
interview: 2014 November 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… translator in France; and returning to New York, where he owned a graphic design company for 24 years until his retirement.…
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 …:30:39,770 We have people who can translate whatever you say later. 477 00:30:39,770 --> 00:30:41,720 So if you can't remember, don't worry. 478 00:30…
4. Oral history interview with Regina Laks Gelb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0057 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0013
Date:
interview: 1998 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… degree; her marriage to Victor Gelb and birth of two sons Harry and Paul; her career as interpreter/translator, including her service to the United States…
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 … marriage to Victor Gelb and birth of two sons: Harry and Paul; her career as interpreter/translator, including her service to the United States Holocaust…
5. Black yarmulke owned by Milton Emont and likely used during World War II
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.3
Date:
use: approximately 1943-approximately 1946
…th Signal Service Battalion. As a translator and teletype operator, he was responsible for sending and receiving messages in Section Headquarters located in…
6. Oral history interview with Eva Kristine Belfoure
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.31 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0138
Date:
interview: 2001 February 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to the Rathsfeld firm, where she worked as a kitchen aide and remained until liberation; doing translation work in a field hospital in Nordhausen…
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 … spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. Tape 3 of 5/Side B Kristine translated in a field hospital…
7. Oral history interview with Gerald Bantjes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.203 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0203
Date:
interview: 1997 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… translator for the British Army in Wychen (Wijchen), Netherlands in September 1944; being with the Second British Army in the 15 S division; traveling to…
8. Oral history interview with Shaul Sadan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.131 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0131
Date:
interview: 1993 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where he was wounded transferring huge concrete bags; becoming a translator for American units at liberation; returning to the Netherlands to find his…
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 …; the behavior of the older German guard, the worse behavior of the Ukrainians and the Croates. Became translator for the American units, was well cared…
9. Oral history interview with Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0265
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
10. Oral history interview with Arthur Weil
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.534 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0534
Date:
interview: 2002 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
11. Oral history interview with Fritz Heine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.37 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0037
Date:
interview: 1988 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… translating German newspapers, telegraphs, etc. for the British; his capture and internment for subversive political activities in 1940; escaping to Spain and…
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 …. "It was not a question of whether Jew or not, it was more political." His efforts also and later included translating German newspapers, telegraphs, etc…
12. Star of David badge with Jude given to a US liberator by an inmate
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Object | Accession Number: 1988.140.4
Date:
1945 May 07-1945 May 09
…Translators--United States--Biography.…
13. Oral history interviews with André Scheinmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.100.2.1 | RG Number: RG-50.832.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13-2012
interview: 2000
interview: 2001 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
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 … he was not to be heard from again. He stayed in Stutthof from July 1943 to July 1944, and for most of that time acted as a translator between French…
14. Oral history interview with Edith Coliver
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.999 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0999
Date:
interview: 1998 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working as an interpreter and translator at the Nuremberg Trials, including providing simultaneous German to English translation for several of Hitler…
15. Oral history interview with Alex Krasheninnikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.111 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0111
Date:
interview: 1989 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Court interpreting and translating.…
16. Oral history interview with Annie Bleiberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.428.1 | RG Number: RG-50.822.0001
Date:
interview: 2014
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… translate between prisoners in the camp; working in the Kanada kommando; being taken by train in October 1944 to a small camp in Czechoslovakia (probably…
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 … would say a little night prayer; but she gave that up. When a transport from Greece came, Annie became their go-between — translator — because she spoke…
17. Oral history interview with Zuzana Ruzickova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.7 | RG Number: RG-50.615.0001
Date:
creation: 1991
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1945; being liberated by British troops; working in the British general hospital as a translator; experiencing survivor’s guilt; how she met her husband…
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 … liberated by the English. After her recovery she worked in the British General Hospital as a translator helping doctors and patients communicate with each…
18. Oral history interview with Bert Fleming
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0365
Date:
interview: 1996 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
19. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0175 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0107
Date:
interview: 1998 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… translating materials; speaking about his past; and being featured in the book “The Triumphant Spirit” by Nicholas del Calzo.…
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 … translations of the deportations. 1212 01:07:05,235 --> 01:07:10,940 I found out a lot of things that really touched me at the time. 1213 01:07:10,940 --> 01:07…
20. Oral testimony of Anne Atik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.476.12 | RG Number: RG-50.904.0012
Date:
interview: 2015 February 08
Alternate Title:
"Poet, writer, and artist's wife"
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the painter and art historian Avigdor Arikha in Paris, France in the 1950s; publishing poems and translating American and Israeli literature…
21. Oral history interview with Aimée Beressi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.139.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0713
Date:
interview: 2013 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… become a journalist; abandoning her studies in 1942 or 1943 to take a job in an English firm as a translator and working there until 1947; not remembering…
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 …, wanting to become a journalist. She abandoned her studies in 1942 or 1943 to take a job in an English firm as a translator, for a pittance. She kept this…
22. Oral history interview with Harry Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.745 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0745
Date:
interview: 1989 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and his family were German; being drafted into the army; and serving as a translator for German prisoners of war.…
23. Oral history interview with Eli Rock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0063 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0386
Date:
interview: 1998 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
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 … Yiddish. And -- and that was some experience, I remember. Q: What was the translation of that song? A: “Anier director in -- in Joint da.” There’s a new…
24. Oral history interview with Richard Sonnenfeldt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.60.5 | RG Number: RG-90.185.0005
Date:
interview: 2005 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
25. Oral history interview with Werner Kleeman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.38 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0523
Date:
interview: 2008 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism in the army; going through amphibious training in West Florida in 1943; his travels and work for the army in Europe as a translator; being part of…
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 … knew then from the spring, from March on, that you were going to be a translator. If you hadn’t been asked to do that, what would you have been doing? A…
26. Oral history interview with Hans Heimann
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0091
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators--Italy.…
27. Oral history interview with Genia Lebel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.85 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0085
Date:
interview: 1991 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… escape, recapture, and transfer to a labor camp; assuming a new identity (Yoran Kalagy from Wiener-Neustadt); her assignments and how her translating…
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 … airport housing special planes and was, therefore, bombarded frequently. Describes her assignments and how her translating skills saved her many times…
28. Oral history interview with Steven J. Fenves
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.428.3 | RG Number: RG-50.822.0003
Date:
interview: 2014
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
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 … them asked if someone could be a translator/interpreter/dolmetscher in Polish, Hungarian, and German. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
29. Oral history interview with Regine Archer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.10 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0010
Date:
interview: 2006 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
30. Oral history interview with Sam Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.4 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1068
Date:
interview: 2020 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
31. Oral history interview with Manfred Steinfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.70 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0070
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Baltic Coast); translating the unconditional surrender document which was being executed by General Gavin; coming across Wöbbelin concentration camp and…
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 … distinctly when we came back to Ludwigslust, I was involved in translating the unconditional surrender document which was being executed by the German…
32. Oral history interview with Stefan Czyzewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0064 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0387
Date:
interview: 1998 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… underground organization; being caught and sent to a camp in Siberia a month later; becoming a translator because of his skill with languages and being allowed…
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 … – Q: Yeah, she’s Catholic. A: – the Book of – of Judith does not exist in a Patterson Bible. Q: Oh, okay. A: See, when the Bible was being translated…
33. Oral history interview with Marsha Segall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.43 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0043
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
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 … difficult to translate. It's not actually-- it was Arbeit macht das leben suss [NON-ENGLISH]. And then it was a confusion because we saw inmates. We saw…
34. Oral history interview with Odette Cohen-Solal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0682
Date:
interview: 2012 December 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators--Tunisia.…
35. Oral history interview with Irene Shapiro
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
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 … will never be accepted to the school.” And the little child translated it into, “I’m going to live!” So I credit myself with able to do that more than…
36. Oral history interview with Anushka Freiman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.41 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0041
Date:
interview: 1991 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation by British forces; becoming a translator for the British; the establishment of a central committee and card…
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 … became a translator. Describes the establishment of central committee and card catalogue to search for survivors. Discovered the http://collections…
37. Oral history interview with Martin Radley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.1 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… superior officer; his service as a translator; his contact with survivors from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; hearing about the death march from…
38. Oral history interview with Marko Menachem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.195 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0195
Date:
interview: 1994 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… administration; his imprisonment for four years; working as a translator in prison, then as a textbook translator and university lecturer after his release; his…
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 … learned about his knowledge of several languages, which was useful to them. Marko was taken out daily to do translation [for which he was well compensated…
39. Oral history interview with Luis Stillmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.284.3 | RG Number: RG-50.986.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… indifferent; staying in Wels, Austria, where he received food and medical assistance from the American army and worked as translator; returning to Budapest and…
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 … also indifferent. He stayed in Welz where he received food and medical assistance from the American army and worked as translator. He then returned to…
40. Oral history interview with Trude Ludwig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.79 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
41. Oral history interview with Moishe Weiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.140 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0140
Date:
interview: 1992 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… pogroms of that time; how his brothers and sister became Communists during the war; becoming a writer after the war; translating novels by Jewish authors…
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 … is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. interpreter, a translator…
42. Oral history interview with Mano Orel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.232.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1099
Date:
interview: 2020 December 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
43. Oral history interview with Harry Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1277 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1277
Date:
interview: 1989 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and his family were German; being drafted into the army; and serving as a translator for German prisoners of war.…
44. Oral history interview with Maria Koehl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.116 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 November 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; translating the Watchtower journal each month from French into German at night; how she read the text to the translator who would transcribe by hand while his…
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 …-building “spiritual food” for his Witness brothers. Another Witness, Brother Graff, would work at night to translate the French magazine. Afterwards…
45. Oral history interview with Julian Reuter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0259
Date:
interview: 2016 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going to Frankfurt, Germany, and working in Eisenhower’s headquarters as a translator; getting his immigration papers and sailing with soldiers to the…
46. Oral history interview with Roger Bryan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.76 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0076
Date:
interview: 1996 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium and the former Neuengamme concentration camp; being transferred to Nuremberg to work as an interpreter/translator during the war crime trials…
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 … boy, “Go ahead, boy, why don’t you take something?” In a Berlin accent. I don’t have to translate it here, but that’s what I want to tell you. So that…
47. 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
… Gurs; the release of his father in December 1939; not being allowed to attend school after September 1940; volunteering as a translator at the American…
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 … a translator at the American Quaker Society and was accepted. The Society helped refugees. He was assigned to be messenger to the American Consulate…
48. Oral history interview with Walter Steirman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.365 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0365
Date:
interview: 2001 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Translators.…
49. Oral history interview with Arthur Langerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.318.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0946
Date:
interview: 2017 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… languages (he speaks about 11 languages); and his work translating short stories by the his author Sholem Aleichem into French and has several other works in…
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 … has a talent for languages, speaking about 11 of them. He has worked on translating short stories by the author Sholem Aleichem into French and has…
50. Oral history interview with Ivo Herzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0334 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0097
Date:
interview: 1989 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a camp under British control; leaving the British camp and traveling to Bari; working as a translator and typist for the British Army in Bari after he…
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 … menial to duties of translators. I got a job within one week with the British Field Security as translator and typist; because I knew English by that time…