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1. Oral history interview with Martin Leiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.159.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0919
Date:
interview: 2017 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Martin Joseph Leiser was born May 27, 1931 in Vienna, Austria to Sarah Grifel and Benzion Leiser (d. 1937). He has two older sisters: Rosa and Suzy…
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 … you born? Vienna, Austria. And what was your name at birth? Martin Joseph-- Jozi, actually. Martin Jozi Leiser. So it didn't change. Sometimes, people…
2. Schläfrig family papers
2014.538.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2014.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1947
…). Marie studied art in Vienna, but after the German annexation of Austria in 1938, she immigrated to England. From there, she and her husband moved to the…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org 3 Topical Subject: Jews‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Holocaust Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Austria‐‐History. Geography: Vienna…
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3. Oral history interview with Herta Honig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.41 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0041
Date:
interview: 2010 January 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herta Honig de Stern, born June 24, 1921 in Vienna, Austria, describes her assimilated family and happy childhood; only attending synagogue for the…
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 …Interviewee: Herta Honig January 7, 2010 Interviewer: Alejandra Stekel Herta Honig de Stern was born on June 24, 1921, in Vienna, Austria. She…
4. Oral history interview with Edith Hahn-Beer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0392
Date:
interview: 1998 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edith Hahn-Beer, born on January 24, 1914 in Vienna, Austria, describes her family situation growing up; attending law school at the University of…
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 … remember the -- the march into Austria -- Vienna? A: No. I wa -- at that time, thank God, there was no television, we couldn’t see the muss and we couldn…
5. Bronze figurine of a Jewish man holding a rooster
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1880-1920
Artwork Title:
Kaparot
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Bronze figurines--Vienna--History.…
6. Oral history interview with Peter Masters
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0125 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0024
Date:
interview: 1996 April 19
interview: 1996 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Peter Masters (né Peter Arany), born February 5, 1922, in Vienna, Austria, describes his prewar life in Vienna; his Viennese mother and Hungarian…
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 … born, stuff like that. 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,720 I was born on the 5th of February, 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,880 1922 in Vienna, Austria. 8 00…
7. Inscribed postcard of three pigs as the three Jews sitting on a bench stereotype
2016.184.203 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.203
Date:
postmark: 1902 March 13
publication: 1897 January-1902 March 13
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Vienna (Austria)…
8. Oral history interview with Menachem Bargil
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.35 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0035
Date:
interview: 1975 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The collections consists of audio cassette tapes of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted from 1974 to 1975 in Austria, Poland…
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 … A In this interview conducted by Peter Wortsman, Menachem Bargil talks about his childhood and education in Vienna. He focuses on the historical and…
9. Oral history interview with Trude Heller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0215 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0394
Date:
interview: 1998 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Trude Heller, born on June 19, 1922 in Vienna, Austria, describes her family and having several non-Jewish friends; meeting her husband Max at a…
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 … Heller, and I was born on June 19, 1922, in Vienna, Austria. Q: Tell me a little bit about your family, and your family life in Vienna. A: I was an only…
10. Oral history interview with Richard Schifter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.221.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0939
Date:
interview: 2017 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ambassador Richard Schifter (1923-2020) was born on July 31, 1923 in Vienna, Austria to Balbina (née Blass) and Paul Schifter. He discusses…
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 … a drug store in Vienna. His sole employee was a Nazi who acquired the store when the Germans occupied Austria and the parents were arrested. His…
11. Oral history interview with Eva Edmands
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0064
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Edmands, born on October 27, 1929 in Vienna, Austria, describes her early childhood; fleeing to Paris, France with her family in 1938; her father…
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 …United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Interview with Eva Edmands October 18, 1990 RG-50.030*0064 PREFACE The following oral history testimony is…
12. Tersch family papers
2013.411.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…Jews--Austria--Vienna--History.…
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 …, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews, Austrian. Jews--Austria--Vienna--History. Jews--Persecutions--Austria--Vienna. World War, 1939-1945. United States--Emigration and…
13. Oral history interview with Ava Dorfman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0317
Date:
interview: 1995 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ava Dorfman, born on April 30, 1920 in Kraków, Poland, describes her parents and childhood; being raised in Vienna, Austria and then later moving to…
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 … to go to Germany or Austria. Of course, I wanted to go to Vienna because I knew so many people. In that time, I just once again, took a chance and went…
14. Oral history interview with Magda Weigl Heath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.97.1 | RG Number: RG-50.626.0001
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Vienna, Austria; how after the Anschluss, Magda was able to immigrate alone to England; her family returning to Czechoslovakia and what life was like for…
15. Oral history interview with Marianne Robitschek Rosner
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0312
Date:
interview: 1995 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marianne Robitschek Rosner, born on October 21, 1910 in Vienna, Austria, describes having a pleasant experience growing up; becoming a dressmaker in…
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 … checked for spelling or accuracy. PREFACE The following oral history testimony is the result of a taped interview with Marianne Rosner, conducted on May 12…
16. Oral history interview with Carl Hirsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0290 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0441
Date:
interview: 1995 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carl Hirsch, born in 1912, discusses his childhood in Vienna, Austria and Chernivtsi, Ukraine; his schooling in mathematics and engineering in his…
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 … spelling or accuracy. PREFACE The following oral history testimony is the result of a taped interview with Carl Hirsch, conducted on behalf of the United…
17. Oral history interview with Robert Treuer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0423
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Robert Treuer, born in Vienna, Austria on January 31, 1926, describes antisemitism he experienced in his neighborhood and at school; the positive…
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 … Robert Treuer, I was born in Vienna, Austria, January 31st, 1926. My family, my parents and I, I was the only child were considered Jewish even though we…
18. Oral history interview with Julius Wald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.387.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0835
Date:
interview: 2015 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Austria--Vienna.…
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 …, 1930. Where were you born? In Vienna, Austria. What were the names of your parents? My father was Marcus, Marcus Wald, and my mother, her legal name was…
19. Oral history interview with Dr. Eisenschimmel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.24 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0024
Date:
interview: 1975 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The collections consists of audio cassette tapes of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors conducted from 1974 to 1975 in Austria, Poland…
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 … Vienna. Was deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. Was opposed to National Socialist party (NS) from 1938. Was imprisoned for 8-10 days by Gestapo…
20. Oral history interview with Carlos Heymann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.39 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0039
Date:
interview: 2010 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Carlos Heyman, born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, describes living with his family in Czernowitz, Romania (Chernivtsi, Ukraine); speaking several…
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 …Interviewee: Carlos Heyman May 25, 2010 Interviewer: Jimena Hinzpeter Carlos Heyman was born (by accident!) in Vienna in 1920. He lived with…