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1. 60 minutes.
Publication | Library Call Number: PN4784.T4 S59 1994
Published:
New York, N.Y : CBS News, c1994
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…National socialism--Germany--Passau.…
2. Addie Bernd : in his own words / by Janet Bernd Isenberg.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.42.B47 A3 2010
Author/Creator:
Isenberg, Janet Bernd
Published:
[United States : J. Isenberg], c2010
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…Jews--Germany--Koblenz--Biography.…
3. "--and it became my home" : die Assimilation und Integration der deutsch-jüdischen Hitlerflüchtlinge in New York und Toronto / Geneviève Susemihl.
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Publication | Library Call Number: F128.9.J5 S87 2004
Author/Creator:
Susemihl, Geneviève, 1972-
Published:
Münster : LIT, c2004
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…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.…
4. Angie's story / [by Angie Suss Paull] as told to Barbara Appelbaum and Peter Marchant.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.P63 P378 2003
Author/Creator:
Paull, Angie Suss, 1922-
Published:
Rochester, N.Y. : Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information (CHAI), Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester, c2003
Availability
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
5. Ask thy father and he will tell you ... = sheʻal avikha ṿe-yagedkha / [as told by Marc and Lotte Breuer ; written and edited by Paul Breuer and Annette Kirschner].
Publication | Library Call Number: BM755.B653 A3 1997
Author/Creator:
Breuer, Marc, 1912-2002
Published:
[New York] : [Paul Breuer, Annette Kirschner], [1997]
©1997
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…Jews--Germany--Biography.…
6. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… camp, in Bad Orb, Germany. He was one of 350 American soldiers sent to the forced labor camp Berga an der Elster, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration…
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 … material: Mark and Martin Vogel also donated three issues of The Cub of the Golden Lion and a map of Germany with International boundaries as of January 1938…
7. Class, networks, and identity : replanting Jewish lives from Nazi Germany to rural New York / Rhonda F. Levine.
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Publication | Library Call Number: F130.J5 L48 2001
Author/Creator:
Levine, Rhonda F.
Published:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2001
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…Class, networks, and identity : replanting Jewish lives from Nazi Germany to rural New York / Rhonda F. Levine.…
8. Congregation Habonim : the first sixty years, 1939-1999, 5700-5760.
Publication | Library Call Number: BM225.N5 C629 1999
Published:
New York : Congregation Habonim, 1999?
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…Jews--Germany.…
9. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…Eva Lewin was born in Swinemünde, Germany in 1925 to merchant Theodor Lifschitz (1888-1942) and Selma Rothstein (1898-1942). Her parents arranged for…
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 …-1999 (bulk 1934-1970) Accession number: 2000.550.5 Creator: Lewin (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 1 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States…
10. Eve B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2245) interviewed by Naomi Rappaport,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2245
Author/Creator:
B., Eve, 1935-
Published:
New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Mannheim (Germany)…
11. From Holocaust to freedom : a life / by Francis H. Schott.
Publication | Library Call Number: E184.J5 S36 1998
Author/Creator:
Schott, Francis H., 1926-
Published:
[S.l.] : F.H. Schott, [1998]
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…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Solingen--Personal narratives.…
12. Gruenspecht / [Alfred Gruenspecht].
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G5 G7684 1994
Author/Creator:
Gruenspecht, Alfred, 1920-
Published:
[New York?] : A. Gruenspecht, [1994?]
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Wüstensachsen--Biography.…
13. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
14. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…
15. I remember / Tanya Josefowitz.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G5 J64 1999
Author/Creator:
Josefowitz, Tanya
Published:
London : T. Josefowitz, 1999
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…Jews--Germany--Worms--Biography.…
16. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…Isidore (later Edward) Gross was born on October 31, 1921, in Aachen, Germany, to Markus and Ida Reiter Gross. Markus was born on July 27, 1895, in…
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 …, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several…
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17. Lieutenant Birnbaum : a soldier's story : growing up Jewish in America, liberating the D.P. camps, and a new home in Jerusalem / by Meyer Birnbaum with Yonason Rosenblum.
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Publication | Library Call Number: F128.9.J5 B525 1993
Author/Creator:
Birnbaum, Meyer, 1918-
Published:
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Mesorah Publications, c1993
Availability
…Holocaust survivors--Germany.…
18. Lilienthal family papers
2016.348.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 87
Document | Accession Number: 2016.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 2013
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …-approximately 2013 Accession number: 2016.348.1 Creator: Lilienthal (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany) Extent: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes) Repository: United…
19. Lore Reich, née Hannelore May :
Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.42.R445 A3 2008
Author/Creator:
Reich, Lore, 1931-
Published:
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.…
20. The memoirs of Liselotte Kahn.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G5 K338 1996
Author/Creator:
Kahn, Liselotte
Published:
New York : Cato Pub., c1996
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Nuremberg--Biography.…
21. Memories, the most beautiful paradise ... from which one can never be expelled (Jean Paul Richter) : my life : by Rudy Hirsch.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.42.H576 A3 1995
Author/Creator:
Hirsch, Rudy, 1919-
Published:
1995
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.…
22. One minute before midnight : a memoir / by Ruth Mueller as told to Mark Bego.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.42.M83 A3 2009
Author/Creator:
Mueller, Ruth
Published:
Baltimore : PublishAmerica Inc., [2009]
©2009
Availability
…Germany--History--1933-1945.…
23. Oral history interviews with Esther Moses and Herbert Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.701.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… relocation to an underground factory where she was placed into forced labor; her transfer to a factory in Hamburg, Germany; being marched to Salzburg where she…
24. Oral history interview with Abraham Malach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0123 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0042
Date:
interview: 1999 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… difficulties of traveling to West Germany to reunite with his father; life in Germany after the war; studying in Israel; living in Stuttgart, Germany; meeting…
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 … difficulties of traveling to West Germany to reunite with his father; life in Germany after the war; studying in Israel; living in Stuttgart, Germany; meeting…
25. Oral history interview with Alfred Batzdorff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.299 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0299
Date:
interview: 1994 March 03
interview: 1994 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alfred Batzdorff, born on February 19, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), describes his parents; his mother (maiden name Allendorf), who…
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 …,800 --> 00:04:59,060 in Germany, and my father saved his life, and all that. 51 00:04:59,060 --> 00:05:02,990 So that was great friendship. 52 00:05:02…
26. Oral history interview with Allen Moskowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.20 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 March 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.…
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 … heard all kinds of stories 106 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,460 about what was going on in Germany. 107 00:06:12,460 --> 00:06:16,820 Most people felt, well…
27. Oral history interview with Amalie Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0303 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0054
Date:
interview: 1999 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Amaile Salsitz, born October 21, 1922 in Munich, Germany, discusses being raised in Stanislawow, Poland, her various false identities during World…
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 … Germany; her difficulties in immigrating to the United States; arriving in New York; becoming a Hebrew teacher; going to Israel; starting a family; how the…
28. Oral history interview with Anita Graber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.82 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0568
Date:
interview: 2010 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anita Graber, born October 29, 1925, discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; how her parents were from Warsaw, Poland; her father’s profession as…
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 … school after Kristallnacht and how her father’s business was able to survive Kristallnacht. She also remembers the process of leaving Germany including…
29. Oral history interview with Anita Sockol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0186 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0457
Date:
interview: 1999 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anita Sockol, born in 1927 in Berlin, Germany, describes her childhood; going to a Jewish school to avoid antisemitism; noticing the atmosphere of…
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 …. They had winter camps, because in Germany, vacations are different than here. We didn’t have a summer vacation from, you know, all of June, July and…
30. Oral history interview with Barbara Rodbell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0168 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0019
Date:
interview: 1998 August 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Barbara Rodbell discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; moving to the Netherlands; her family history and religion; life as a dancer in Amsterdam…
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 …; her feelings toward Germany and Poland. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
31. Oral history interview with Barbara Shilo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.545 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0545
Date:
interview: 2000 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Barbara Shilo discusses her childhood in Kassel, Germany; her family life; her anxiety over being the only Jewish student in her class; the changes…
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 … Schultz S-c-h-u-1-t-z. AND WHERE WERE YOU BORN In Fulda Germany. BARBARA SHILO COULD YOU SPELL THE NAME OF YOUR TOWN Sure. Ful-d-a. AND WHERE IS FULDA…
32. Oral history interview with Benjamin B. Ferencz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0269
Date:
interview: 1994 August 26
interview: 1994 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … of National Socialism, what it was doing in Germany prior to going to Harvard while you in college? A: Oh yes I was, very much so, but there was then a…
33. Oral history interview with Benjamin Ferencz
Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.143.1 | RG Number: RG-90.201.0001
Date:
interview: 1997 April 24-1997 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Einsatzgruppen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1947-1948.…
34. Oral history interview with Bert Fleming and Irene Fleming
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0160 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0430
Date:
interview: 1996 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bert Fleming and Irene Fleming describe how Bert grew up in Warsaw and Łódź; Bert’s family’s deportation to Hannover, Germany before Kristallnacht…
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 …: No. I was considered stateless. I was born in Germany and I was not a German and I was not a Pole. Q: I thought that you got your citizenship after…
35. Oral history interview with Blanche Hall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.353 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0591
Date:
interview: 2010 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Blanche Hall (née Katzenstein), born March 2, 1913 in Schlüchtern, Germany, discusses her parents Hermann and Gutta Katsenstein; her mother’s death…
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 …: Yeah. Q: And where were you born? A: In Schlüchtern, in Germany. Q: Schlüchtern? Where is Schlüchtern? A: Schlüchtern is – Schlüchtern, Frankfurt and…
36. Oral history interview with Blanche Lubecki Juris
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.3 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0003
Date:
interview: 1994 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… post-war, and then to Łódź, Poland and Germany; staying in a displaced persons camp; being fed by the UNRRA; finding out the fate of her family members…
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 … four of her siblings had survived. Blanche, Isaac, and their son went to Vilna, then Lodz, then a DP camp in Germany where they were fed by UNRRA. The…
37. Oral history interview with Blanka Rothschild
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.318 | RG Number: RG-50.549.03.0003
Date:
interview: 2001 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Blanka Rothschild describes her liberation from forced labor in Wittenberg at the end of the war; leaving Poland for Berlin, Germany after the war…
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 … long trip. And I was dressed very decently, because before I left Germany, all my accumulated coffee that I still had, I exchanged for a nice coat. It…
38. Oral history interview with Budd Schulberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.513 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0502
Date:
interview: 2005 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Belgium, and Germany; working for the OSS (US Office of Strategic Services); observing the Dachau Trial; preparing photographic evidence for the Nuremberg…
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 … ‘43, ‘44, yes, as we moved through Belgium and into Germany. And then they used writers in a very creative way. They had writers like me work with, on…
39. Oral history interview with Cantor Hans Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.148 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0148
Date:
interview: 1999 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Cantor Hans Cohn, born in Berlin, Germany on May 31, 1926, discusses his childhood in Berlin; being forced to leave his public school after the…
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 …: Cantor Hans Cohn was born in Berlin, Germany on May 31, 1926. He was an only child. His parents are not named on the tape. His father was born in Posen in…
40. Oral history interview with Charlene Perlmutter Schiff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.47 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0068
Date:
interview: 2003 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling to her hometown in eastern Poland; antisemitism in Poland; traveling to Germany; her experiences in the displaced persons camp Föhrenwald…
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 … to her hometown in eastern Poland; anti- Semitism in Poland; traveling to Germany; her experiences in the displaced persons camp, Fernwald; immigrating…
41. Oral history interview with David Keller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.332 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0332
Date:
interview: 2000 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
42. Oral history interview with Dora Sorell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1474 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1474
Date:
interview: 2005 June 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
43. Oral history interview with Doriane Kurz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0432 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0001
Date:
interview: 1997 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … train, but we were liberated before that could happen, by the Russians. And that happened in a town which later on was in East Germany. It was in the…
44. Oral history interview with Doris Greenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0228 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0028
Date:
interview: 1998 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Neubrandenburg; being assigned to work for an SS guard’s parents; her liberation by the Russians; traveling to Berlin, Germany; getting arrested in Dresden…
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 … work for an SS guard’s parents; her liberation by the Russians; traveling to Berlin, Germany; getting arrested in Dresden, Germany by the Russians…
45. Oral history interview with Ellen Fletcher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.206 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0206
Date:
interview: 1995 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ellen Fletcher (née Amster), born on December 3, 1928 in Berlin, Germany, describes her Polish father and her German mother; growing up in Germany…
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 …: Ellen Fletcher was born in Berlin, Germany on December 3, 1928. Her name was Ellen Amster, her father was from Poland and her mother was German. The…
46. Oral history interview with Ellen Kaidanow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.366 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0553
Date:
interview: 2008 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Refugee camps--Germany--Bad Reichenhall.…
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 … Czechoslovakia to Germany, and at that time we were in a DP camp which was called Bad Reichenhall. And that was in Germany. And there we stayed for quite awhile…
47. Oral history interview with Ellen Marchese
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0008
Date:
interview: 1995 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …’s no sequence to it. Q: Was it -- were there a lot of these men? A: A whole tent full. Q: At any give time? A: Well, that time in Germany, you know, that…
48. Oral history interview with Ellen Tarlow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.23 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0023
Date:
interview: 1993 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ellen Tarlow (née Meinberg), born in 1927 in Gütersloh, Westphalia, Germany, describes how her family had lived in Gütersloh since the 17th century…
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 … you were born, and a little bit about your family? ET: Sure. I was born in Gütersloh, in Westfalen, Westphalia to you, in Germany. It is northwest…
49. Oral history interview with Ellen Zweig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.24 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0545
Date:
interview: 2010 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ellen Zweig (née Seligman), born May 18, 1929 in Regensburg, Germany, describes her childhood in prewar Germany; her mother Rose Hirschfeld, father…
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 … World in Silver Spring. Let’s start by telling me your name at birth, as it was in Germany, the names of your parents. Answer: Okay. The – my name was…
50. Oral history interview with Emmy Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.237.2 | RG Number: RG-50.970.0001
Date:
interview: 1993 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and…
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 …RG-50.970*0001 Biographical note from the Sigall Family Papers (irn 557478) Emmy Loeb was born Emmy Hanna Sigall in Darmstadt, Germany, on 31 May…