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1. Oral history interview with Felicia Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.56 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0056
Date:
interview: 1983 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … prisoners of war and other prisoners of war. I had contact with some of the German women who were Kapos. Some of them were lesbians. I saw quite a few German…
2. Oral history interview with Eva Cigler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0015
Date:
interview: 1982 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being transferred to Brzezinka in Birkenau; the women Kapos; jealousy amongst the inmates when individuals got better jobs or more food; their work…
3. Oral history interviews with Anna Zisow and Emil Zisow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.268.1 | RG Number: RG-50.892.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
4. Oral history interview with Rita Boas-Koopman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.148.0005
Date:
interview: 1972
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
5. Oral history interview with Theresia Raich-Graf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.402.1 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0001
Date:
interview: 2009 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
6. Oral history interview with Iehudit Maraton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.100 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0100
Date:
interview: 1993 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … Birkenau. Selection, showers and supervision by cruel Slovakian Jewish women. 3.42 Describes barracks, food and her state of mind. 3.49 After 4 days they…
7. Oral history interview with Ana Vinocur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.163 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0163
Date:
interview: 1991 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 ….17 Hunger was severe. All women stopped menstruating until after the war. 34.30 The beginning of a home ‘industry’ of candy to complement the family’s income…
8. Oral history interview with Abraham Malach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.364.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0144
Date:
interview: 1990 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women kapos.…
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 … women and children and nothing helped. We were uh driven back to the ghetto. Uh eventually we were taken, the ghetto was liquidated and we were taken to…
9. Oral history interview with Magda Blau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.408.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0030
Date:
interview: 1990 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … woman, she said, "Why don't you go also look for something? You are sitting with those four crazy women. And look after yourself." And I said, "What I am…
10. Oral history interview with Livia Bitton Jackson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0128.7 | RG Number: RG-50.165.0007
Date:
interview: 1990 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 …: Whenever I meet survivors I think to myself: “I wonder how she was in the camps?” Even without being a kapo, there were so many ways you could behave. WH…
11. Oral history interview with Janina Pawlica
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.30 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0030
Date:
interview: 1990 March
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
12. Oral history interview with Mary (Manci) Rosner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.18 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0018
Date:
interview: 1983 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
13. Oral history interview with Agnes Sassoon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.34 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … happened to the kapos in that camp? Well, they asked me. They found that women who did push my hand with the potato. Always I thought it was Irma Grese, and…
14. Oral history interview with Anna Maxell Ware
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0427
Date:
interview: 1996 April 01-1996 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … women http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word…
15. Oral history interview with Jaffa Neuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.356 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0356
Date:
interview: 1999 November 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … quarantined for the first two weeks. 5:25:28 She remembers the cruel Jewish Kapos. German women were also Kapos. She remembers that there were lesbians…
16. Oral history interview with Frieda Kobo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.76 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0076
Date:
interview: 1993 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
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 … ‘AJIJI', the Association Jun Juif an organization for Jewish women, which would raise money for Israel. Apparently, there were several other Jewish youth…
17. Oral history interview with Libi Epshtein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.229 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0229
Date:
interview: 1995 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being deported to Oranienburg; people in the camp including the SS women and Kapos; being sent to camp Wittenberg in Germany; the arrival of a group of…
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 … received the yellow patches.] 35.26 They worked forced outdoor labor. Beginning of 1945. 35.34 Characters in the camp: SS women [more cruel then men]; kapos…
18. Oral history interview with Edith Kramer and Friedrich Kramer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.37 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0037
Date:
interview: 1982 August 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women Kapos.…
19. Oral history interview with Channa Drori
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.328 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0328
Date:
interview: 1998 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kapos.…
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 …. After two days on the train, it turned out that Mauthausen had already been liberated. The 500 women from the factory continued on the train, without food…
20. Oral testimony of Debora “Babciu” Sachs Jacobovits
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.4.1 | RG Number: RG-90.162.0001
Date:
interview: 1996
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kapos.…
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 … we can choose our neighbors, so we looked for women and girls whom we knew from home, we became a group of 6 or 8 women and girls, we chose a place, a…
21. Oral history interview with Suzi Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.241 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0241
Date:
interview: 1995 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… storage; a plot to burn the camp; a selection and being separated from her father; being marched to Birkenau women's camp; the resistance group in the camp…
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 ….32 Describes the camp, people and work in clothing storage. A plot to burn the camp. 4.39 Describes kapo at work. Decline of morals. 4.48 A day in the camp. 4…
22. Oral history interview with Ruth Tatarko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.156 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0156
Date:
interview: 1992 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… airplane factory; being sent to Płaszów; her work and state of mind; joining a transport to Auschwitz; the selections, showers, food, and Kapos; getting sick…
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 … 'selection', showers, food, kapos. Gets sick but recovers. 9.20 She is selected for office work to forge documents. 9.30 Describes the bombing of the…
23. Oral history interview with Lenore Lichtman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.204.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0933
Date:
interview: 2017 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kapo telling them about the crematoria in response to her mother’s question about her younger children; initially refusing to eat the camp food; being…
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 … calls, or Appelle; the leader, or Blockälteste, of her barracks; a Kapo telling them about the crematoria in response to her mother’s question about her…
24. Oral history interview with Lucia Franco
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0431 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0452
Date:
interview: 1997 June 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… observances in the camp; differences in work details for men and women prisoners; life in Landsberg concentration camp; her mother receiving a favorable work…
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 … know. I only found out when I was in Auschwitz, where I met women from Salonika (Thessaloníki) – where 50,000 Jews were exterminated in 1943 – who told…
25. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Zuckermann Bleiman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2023.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1165
Date:
interview: 2023 April 14-2023 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women--Personal narratives.…
26. Oral history interview with Rose Bour
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.14 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0013
Date:
interview: 1982 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; cooking for the officer whose hair she styled; dining with her Kapo; prostitution among prisoners and Polish gentiles; violence inflicted upon women and…
27. Oral history interview with Erica van Adelsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.24 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0024
Date:
interview: 1981 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent with her family on February 15, 1944 to Bergen-Belsen; the camp routine and her work in a plastic pipe factory; the cruelty of the Polish Kapos…
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 … (Concentration camp) Westerbork (Concentration camp) Kapos. Soldiers--Soviet Union. Typhoid fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945…
28. Oral history interview with Eta Neuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.242 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0242
Date:
interview: 1995 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on March 21, 1942; being sent to Auschwitz on March 26, 1942; witnessing women committing suicide on the electric fence; Himmler's visit and the…
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 … dissuades her. Many other girls did commit suicide on the electric fence. 1.38 Tells of Himmler's visit. Tells how he actually shot a few women standing in…
29. Oral history interview with Cipora Hurwitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.281 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0281
Date:
interview: 1996 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kapos.…
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 … Camp Budzyn. 7:08 Describes initiation, showers, body searches, and barracks. Population consisted of women from all over Poland. 7:11 Describes two…
30. Oral history interview with Cecilie Klein-Pollack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.18 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… shortly thereafter; her experiences with Kapos and Blockälteste in Auschwitz and Birkenau; her sister's desire to commit suicide and her attempts to keep…
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 …:09:05,260 that women with children Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken…
31. Oral history interview with Yehudit Koenigsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.362 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0362
Date:
interview: 1999 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Jewish woman; discovery by Germans; deportation to Sered, then Bergen-Belsen; cruel Polish Kapos; her mother glimpsing her father once; her mother and…
32. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Klein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.87 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0087
Date:
interview: 1994 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
33. Oral history interview with Agi Rubin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.24 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0024
Date:
interview: 1992 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kapo in Auschwitz; her memories of the "Garnerlager" or so-called "Gypsy" camp in Auschwitz; her observations of the selection process conducted by Josef…
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 … it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. labor camp already, 13 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,860 unattended only by women to tell their children, 14…
34. Oral history interview with Edit Kosidois
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.327 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0327
Date:
interview: 1998 March 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing the ghetto burning in August 1944; her deportation to Auschwitz; life in the camp, including the roll calls, Kapos, and food; Mengele’s selection of…
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 … March 1945, the camp was bombed. Before the camp’s liberation by the Americans, Rittmeister, the leader of the camp, warned the SS not to harm the women…
35. Oral history interview with Eva Kalvariski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.212 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0212
Date:
interview: 1995 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kapos.…
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 … Auschwitz. By train to camp Plaszow near Krakow. Describes the camp and her work. Describes kapos. 3.12 Describes seeing POWs shot, how scared she felt and…
36. Oral history interview with Ya'akov ben Dror
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.186 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0186
Date:
interview: 1994 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transports; the underground in Birkenau and having his name changed; becoming a Kapo’s assistant; falling ill with typhoid fever; working for a camp commander…
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 … place. 3:48:09 He describes the “Czech” camp as the women’s camp. 3:54:00 Ya’akov recaps the camps he was in and how long he was in each of them. Ya…
37. Oral history interview with Shoshana Kalfus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.308 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0308
Date:
interview: 1996 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kapos.…
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 … camp. 4:05 More about German soldiers who were decent. Describes women who befriended them. 4:10 Talks about her loss of religious faith and her…
38. Oral history interview with Marie Alter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.285 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0285
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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 … different places. Her mother’s jail was with other Jewish women and with German criminals. The criminals did not want to be with the Jewish women, and so the…
39. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.29 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0029
Date:
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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 …'t know that something like this existed, 110 00:06:14,650 --> 00:06:19,210 and the women in greenish uniforms, Jewish women. 111 00:06:19,210 --> 00:06:21…
40. Majdanek liberated
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Film | Accession Number: 1988.184.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0039 | Film ID: 6
Film Title:
Maidanek [Majdanek]
Date:
Event: 1944 July
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:08:19
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…KAPOS…
41. Oral history interview with Aliza Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.253 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0253
Date:
interview: 1995 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had typhus; bribing a Kapo to visit her brother and father; her father giving her family wedding rings; learning her father and brother were selected…
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 …. Anti Semitism started at the time of Glinka. Transported to Auschwitz Rumors that young women can go to work (in labor camps?) had even her mother help…
42. Oral history interview with Fanny Lebovits
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.68 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0068
Date:
interview: 1992 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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 … they had those kapos. 832 00:45:00,790 --> 00:45:03,252 They were like in black jackets and bridges-- Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
43. Oral history interview with Zdenka Erlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.51 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0051
Date:
interview: 1985 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on survival; the barracks; being told her mother’s fate; daily routine including roll calls and food; camp rumors; treatment by Kapos; having to give…
44. Oral history interview with Jerzy Herszberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.18 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0018
Date:
interview: 1986 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the factory; Ukrainian female workers; Allied air raids; the state of his health at that time; the character of German and Jewish Kapos; his will to…
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 … barracks; infestations of lice; conditions in camp; work in factory; treatment by German master; rations and water supply in factory; treatment by Kapos and…
45. Majdanek liberated
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Film | Accession Number: 1988.184.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0028 | Film ID: 5
Film Title:
Maidanek [Majdanek]
Date:
Event: 1944 July
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:06:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…KAPOS…
46. Oral history interview with Rozia Krakowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.34 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0034
Date:
interview: 1996 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish women in the Holocaust.…
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 … Kapos for the women, men had Kapos, conditions for men terrible, dying of starvation, took men to work every day building roads 1942 still getting letters…
47. Oral history interview with Betti Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.59 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0059
Date:
interview: 1991 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kapos; the Philips workers being taken to a labor camp at Reichenbach (Langenbielau); being taken with 150 survivors to Lanowice concentration camp to…
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 …, processing, conditions and cruel treatment from Jewish Kapos. After 10 days, Betti, with the group selected by Philips, was transported out of Auschwitz to a…
48. Oral history interview with Franka Charlupski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0014
Date:
interview: 1981 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to a camp outside Bremen, Germany; cleaning up houses after bombings; the Kapos; German locals leaving hidden food for the inmates; surviving a…
49. Oral history interview with Dora Langsam
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.112 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0112
Date:
interview: 1994 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father; living with her sister in barracks, supervised by a brutal Czech Kapo; enduring daily Appells (roll calls), selections, hunger, and cold; trying to…
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 … transported to Auschwitz. Her father was taken away as soon as he got off the train. Dora and her sister lived in barracks, supervised by a brutal Czech KAPO…
50. Oral history interview with Bella Tovey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.28 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences with a Kapo in Gräben labor camp; how the Germans incorporated Gräben into the camp system of Gross-Rosen concentration camp; her time on a death…
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 …. 412 00:24:24,580 --> 00:24:28,390 But most of them were young men and women 413 00:24:28,390 --> 00:24:34,900 who were taken to labor camp, to work…