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1. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
… sources differ as to whether they were sent to Theresienstadt, Łódź, or Auschwitz. Uncle Ernst managed to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939.…
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 … William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Additional correspondence…
2. What next big guy / Norbert Flatow.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.72.F593 A3 2004
Author/Creator:
Flatow, Norbert, 1934-
Published:
West Conshohocken, PA : Infinity, 2004
Availability
…Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.…
3. Werner H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2408) interviewed by Barbara Devinki and Fred Donovan,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2408
Author/Creator:
H., Werner, 1910-
Published:
Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Germany.…
4. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
…Berlin (Germany)…
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 …)--Reparations. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. 5 Jewish children in the Holocaust--Diaries. Geographic: Vienna (Austria) Shanghai (China) Berlin (Germany…
5. Simon M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1950) interviewed by Larry Steinfeld and Flora Waxberg,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1950
Author/Creator:
M., Simon, 1905-
Published:
Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Germany.…
6. Shanghai refuge : a memoir of the World War II Jewish ghetto / Ernest G. Heppner.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.C5 H464 1995
Author/Creator:
Heppner, Ernest G., 1921-2004
Published:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Biography.…
7. Shanghai refuge : a memoir of the World War II Jewish ghetto / Ernest G. Heppner.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.C5 H464 1993
Author/Creator:
Heppner, Ernest G., 1921-2004
Published:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1993
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Biography.…
8. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
…Rolf Preuss was born in 1936 in Berlin to furrier Adolf Preuss (1910-1963) and Frieda Luft Preuss (1910-1950). The family left Germany in 1939 for…
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 … Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogical materials include family trees and a photocopy of Adolf Preuss…
9. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
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 …, Peter’s relatives, their pre-war lives in Germany and Austria, Peter’s time in Shanghai, and their immigration to the United States. https://collections…
10. People, events, stories : a personal history, 1920-1947 / by Walter C. Frank.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G5 F5853 1995
Author/Creator:
Frank, Walter C., 1920-
Published:
Berkeley, Calif. : Regent Press, 1995
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Wiesbaden--Biography.…
11. Papalies : our papa's homilies, published in honor of Kurt Heimann, December 7, 1912-June 12, 2005.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS134.42.H453 A25 2005
Author/Creator:
Heimann, Kurt, 1912-2005
Published:
[United States] : Giselle "Gigi" Heimann Ratain, 2005
Bruce Bendinger Creative Communications
Availability
…Jews--Germany--Berlin--Biography.…
12. Oral history interview with Werner Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.83 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0083
Date:
interview: 1992 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … tell me something about your life in Germany before the Nazi era, including your birth date and place, residence, name, of course, education, religious…
13. Oral history interview with Ruth Callman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.670 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0670
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
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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 …. [? You sure ?] [INAUDIBLE] OK. [? Are ?] [? you ?] [? ready? ?] This is a stamp when we left Germany at the border on the Alps going into Italy. This is…
14. Oral history interview with Rose Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.336 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0336
Date:
interview: 1998 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rose Lesser describes her childhood in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland); her memories of moving to an all-Jewish school in 1933; her memories of…
15. Oral history interview with Rabbi Theodore Alexander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.508 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0508
Date:
interview: 2002 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rabbi Theodore (Ted) Alexander discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his family life and Jewish education; his memories of anti-Semitism and…
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 …/22/2002 Rabbi Theodore (Ted) Alexander was born Theo-Rolf Alexander on November 6, 1920 in Berlin, Germany. Although Ted’s mother was not raised as an…
16. Oral history interview with Rabbi Samuel Graudenz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.946 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0946
Date:
interview: 1995 March 21
interview: 1996 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rabbi Graudenz discusses his childhood in Fulda, Germany; his Polish parents; his impoverished childhood; being sent to an orphanage in Dinslaken…
17. Oral history interview with Peter Rein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.98.1 | RG Number: RG-90.206.0001
Date:
interview: 1992 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
18. Oral history interview with Marion Ladar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.106 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marion Ladar, a Holocaust survivor, born in 1920, discusses her parents' divorce when she was a child; leaving Germany in 1939 for Shanghai, China…
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 …, and where you were born, and things like that. I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. And [? can you ?] [? tell me, ?] did you have brothers and sisters…
19. Oral history interview with Manny Hirschel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.323 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0323
Date:
interview: 1998 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Manny Hirschel describes his childhood in Berlin, Germany; Kristallnacht; hiding in a relative's apartment; fleeing with his family to Shanghai…
20. Oral history interview with Manfred Konig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.347 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0347
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Manfred Konig, born on April 4, 1932 in Frankfurt, Germany, discusses his early life as a child of an Orthodox upper middle class family…
21. Oral history interview with Loni Wilk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.430 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0430
Date:
interview: 2002 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Loni Wilk (née Meyer), born on November 29, 1923 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her childhood in Hamburg; her family life; her education; the changes…
22. Oral history interview with Lieselotte H. Fajardo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.225 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0225
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lieselotte H. Fajardo (née Markus), born on March 8, 1926 in Berlin, Germany, discusses Kristallnacht; her education; the antisemitism she…
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 … Restrictions: None 1 vol. (unpaged) English SUMMARY Lieselotte H. Fajardo, née Markus, was born March 8, 1926 in Berlin, Germany, an only child of an affluent…
23. Oral history interview with Leo Meyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.421 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0421
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Meyer, born on October 19, 1911 in Langenfeld, Germany, discusses fleeing to Shanghai, China on the SS Conte Biancamano; arriving in Shanghai in…
24. Oral history interview with Leo Lerner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.376 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0376
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Lerner, born on September 3, 1929 in Göppingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany, discusses his father’s expulsion from Germany as a "stateless" Polish…
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 … for broadcast 1 vol. (unpaged) English SUMMARY Leo Lerner was born September 3, 1929 in Goeppingen, Württenberg, Germany. His father, an impoverished…
25. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.229 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0229
Date:
interview: 1995 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his experiences with antisemitism after the Nazis rose to power in neighboring Germany; graduating from school in 1936; the family's flight to Prague…
26. Oral history interview with Kurt Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.366 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0366
Date:
interview: 1998 February 11
interview: 1998 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… performed; his work with the American intelligence services after the war; the fates of his family members; and his current feelings about Germany.…
27. Oral history interview with Kurt Gronowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.163 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0163
Date:
interview: 1999 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kurt Gronowski, born on July 16, 1923 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Berlin; the antisemitism he experienced; the destruction of his…
28. Oral history interview with Klaus Robert Lange
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.362 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0362
Date:
interview: 1999 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Klaus Robert Lange, born on January 15, 1930 in Berlin, Germany, discusses moving to Shanghai at three years old in 1933; vignettes of changing…
29. Oral history interview with Karin A. Pardo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.450 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0450
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending boarding school in Hanover, Germany in 1937; anti-Jewish laws; leaving for Shanghai, China with her family in 1939; traveling by train to Genoa…
30. Oral history interview with John Friedmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
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.…
31. Oral history interview with Joan Kris
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.603 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0603
Date:
interview: 2002 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joan Kris discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of increasing antisemitism after the Nazi rise to power, including being forced to…
32. Oral history interview with Irmgard Clark
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.598 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0598
Date:
interview: 2003 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Imgard Clark discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of Hitler's rise to power; the difficulties she experienced, including being…
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 …: Irmgard Clark was born in Berlin, Germany May 8, 1921. She was the only child of Paul Salamon and his wife, Margarita. Her father designed women's clothes…
33. Oral history interview with Inge Wendriner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.613 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0613
Date:
interview: 2003 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Inge Wendriner, born on February 2, 1921, discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her family life; her education; the changes she experienced…
34. Oral history interview with Inge Schaffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.789 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0789
Date:
interview: 2003 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Inge Schaffer discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht; her family's frantic attempts to flee Germany and their…
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 … Germany. Gretel? Inge. Inge. OK. And where were you born, city? Berlin, Friedenau, Germany. All right. And your father's name. My father's name was Leopold…
35. Oral history interview with Inge Peebles
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.780 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0780
Date:
interview: 2003 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Inge Peebles discusses her assimilated childhood in Berlin, Germany; her parents’ interfaith marriage; her father’s death early in her life; the…
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 …, Germany. And how many people were in your family? My mother, my father, when I was born, my mother and my father, and myself. OK. You want to give us their…
36. Oral history interview with Ilse Steirman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.364 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0364
Date:
interview: 2001 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilse Steirman discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her father's personal identification as German; and her memories of Kristallnacht in…
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 … born in and the country? 17 00:01:28,780 --> 00:01:31,584 Berlin, Germany. 18 00:01:31,584 --> 00:01:32,560 OK. 19 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,840 And your…
37. Oral history interview with Idel Mathias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.411 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0411
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Idel Mathias, born in 1907 in Braila, Romania, discusses moving to Germany with his parents in 1912; the difficulty in getting German citizenship…
38. Oral history interview with Hurst Sommer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.533 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0533
Date:
interview: 2002 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hurst Sommer discusses his childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); his time in a Jewish children's home; his memories of Kristallnacht…
39. Oral history interview with Hildegard Israel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.487.1 | RG Number: RG-50.067.0001
Date:
interview: 1998 March 12
interview: 1998 May 19
interview: 1998 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
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 …My name is Susan Hackney. And today is March 12, 1998. And I am with Hilde Israel. And we are going to be talking about life in Germany leading up to…
40. Oral history interview with Herbert Wolff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1108 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1108
Date:
interview: 2005 March 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herbert Wolff discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his religious upbringing; his work in Italy in 1935 with a newspaper; his work in Kenya in…
41. Oral history interview with Herbert Broh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.102 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0102
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herbert Broh, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, relates several experiences of abusive antisemitism by his friends and his teacher as well as his…
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 … us where and when you were born and a little bit about your family? Yeah, sure. I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, and my family lived in Berlin…
42. Oral history interview with Heinz Kochman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.519 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0519
Date:
interview: 2002 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Heinz Kochman discusses his childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) in an Orthodox Jewish community; the death of his mother in 1937; his…
43. Oral history interview with Harry Sydel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.557 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0557
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Sydel (né Seidel), born on March 6, 1930 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses his family; Kristallnacht; the destruction of the…
44. Oral history interview with Harry Lewin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.340 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0340
Date:
interview: 1997 September 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Lewin discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his move to Frankfurt, Germany at age 18 to work with a clothing company; his awareness of…
45. Oral history interview with Hans Levy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.604 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0604
Date:
interview: 2002 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Levy discusses his childhood in Halle, Germany; the family's moves to Dresden and Berlin; his early memories of antisemitism; his father…
46. Oral history interview with Hans J. Arons
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.658 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0658
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Arons discusses his youth and young adulthood in Hannover, Germany; his education; the antisemitism he experienced before the war; the…
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 …, Germany. In what year? September 1, 1914. 1914. And tell me, what did your father do? My father, he was a lawyer-- attorney or a lawyer in Germany. And how…
47. Oral history interview with Hans Gottheiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.765 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0765
Date:
interview: 2003 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Gottheiner discusses his childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); his memories of Kristallnacht in November 1938, including his…
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 … when were you born and where were you born? I was born March 15, 1930 in Breslau, Germany. It is Poland now, with a different name. And what was your…
48. Oral history interview with Hans Arons
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.391 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0391
Date:
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Arons discusses his youth and young adulthood in Hannover, Germany; his education; the antisemitism he experienced before the war; the…
49. Oral history interview with Hanna Zeidler-Cowan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.386 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0386
Date:
interview: 1997 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hanna Zeidler-Cowan (née Kuntslinger), born in 1920 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood in Berlin; her memories of Hitler's rise to power…
50. Oral history interview with Gunther G. Rechnitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.352 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0352
Date:
interview: 1998 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gunther Rechnitz discusses his childhood in Ratibor, Germany (now Raciborz, Poland); the onset of anti-Jewish discrimination in Germany; his sister…