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1. Leonard T. Zawacki, Auschwitz prisoner no. 13390
1992.A.0101 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0101 | RG Number: RG-02.063.01
Date:
creation: circa 1992
… Poland surrendered to Germany in 1939, became a non-Jewish prisoner of war. He and his cousin escaped from a German prison and worked in Warsaw, Poland…
2. Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0180 | RG Number: RG-02.121
Date:
1991
Subtitle:
Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof
… a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and…
3. Fragments of a childhood and youth
Document | RG Number: RG-02.211
Date:
1995
Subtitle:
autobiographical memories
…Werner Jacob Lipton (Liebschüz) left Germany in 1939 for Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes).…
4. Margot Stern memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-02.228
Date:
1991
…Contains a memoir about Margot Stern's experiences being sent to Riga, Latvia, from Stuttgart, Germany. A listing of family members who perished…
5. "Clandestinely: 1943-1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.328 | RG Number: RG-02.242
Date:
inclusive: 2009
…Consists of one memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Clandestinely: 1943-1945," by Peter Cullman, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, he describes…
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 … waning 19th century, he hailed from a largely rural area in South West Germany where his forebears could be traced well back to the Thirty-Years-War. All…
6. "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.335 | RG Number: RG-02.246
Date:
manufacture: 2007
publication/distribution: 2010
…Berlin (Germany)…
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 … and the medical expertise was available not in Russia but in Germany. Within a few months of returning from Moscow they were ready to return there…
7. "Hindenburg--Aug 1944--January 1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2010.45 | RG Number: RG-02.250
Date:
publication/distribution: circa 2000
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Hindenburg.…
8. Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0086 | RG Number: RG-04.025.01
Date:
1943-1991
…Betty Katz was the director of the Institute for Jewish Blinds in Berlin-Steglitz, Germany, before the Holocaust. She was deported to the Terezín…
9. Ahlem commemorative collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.57 | RG Number: RG-04.083
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2009
… victims of KZ Ahlem made by Hauptschule Ahlem; Hannover, Germany" contains photographs, newspaper clippings, survivor testimony, and names lists compiled by…
10. Chester Harrison collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0072 | RG Number: RG-09.035
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
…Germany.…
11. A letter in honor of deceased American GI who experienced atrocities at Buchenwald
1995.A.0042 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0042 | RG Number: RG-09.057
Date:
creation: 1993 April 12
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Personal narratives.…
12. Howard Cwick papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.233 | RG Number: RG-09.069
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2005
… entitled "It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by Howard Cwick, a sergeant in the Third United States Army. Mr. Cwick participated in the liberation of…
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 … photoprints, and twenty copyprints of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. Also contains a memoir entitled,"It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by…
13. Carrol Walsh letter
2009.337 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2009.337 | RG Number: RG-09.082
Date:
creation: 2008 April 10
…, who liberated Barry from a train on the outskirts of Magdeburg, Germany, on April 13, 1945, writes about their friendship. Walsh also describes how…
14. "The words of our mouths: our family's heritage as told by members of the Beer-Lasner, Goss-Kaufman, Katz-Rosenstein, Ribak-Weiner families"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0075 | RG Number: RG-10.039.01
Date:
1992
…Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.…
15. John R. Kellam letter
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0295 | RG Number: RG-10.131
Date:
creation: 1994 January 13
…Concentration camps--Germany.…
16. Memories
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0343 | RG Number: RG-10.138
Date:
creation: 1991
…, Germany. He was liberated in April 1945.…
17. The family of Ferdinand Sternfels (Stanfield) (1825-1897)
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0350 | RG Number: RG-10.141
Date:
1992
…Sternfels (a.k.a. Stanfield) Family history describes how some members of the family emigrated from Germany to the United States and relates the…
18. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 ….150 1996.A.0451 Title: Walter Stras collection, 1938-1995. Extent: 1 folder. Provenance: Walter Stras collected the materials during his time in Germany…
19. Abe Weiss papers
1996.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-10.173
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1996
…-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in concentration camps, Chaim Dudowicz…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org report on anti-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in…
20. Childhood Memories
Document | Accession Number: 2001.38 | RG Number: RG-10.213
Date:
1994
…Germany--History--1933-1945.…
21. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers
1999.A.0163 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0163 | RG Number: RG-10.238
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1995
… University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria…
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 … University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria upon…
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 … science from the University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and…
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22. Margaret Iglauer collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0193 | RG Number: RG-10.241
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1937-1946
…Margaret Iglauer was born on 2 December 1910 in Nürnberg, Germany, and married Ernest Iglauer in 1936. She and her husband lived in Nürnberg until…
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 … Germany. 3. Miscellaneous documents. Language: Dutch, German, French, and English. Preferred Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust…
23. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
24. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
25. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
…Henry Landman was born Heinz Landmann in Augsburg, Germany, in 1920 to Josef Landmann (1895- 1964) and Regina (Recha) Landmann, née Grünebaum. After…
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 … 2013, revised January 2018 Biographical note Henry Landman was born Heinz Landmann in Augsburg, Germany, in 1920 to Josef Landmann (1895- 1964) and…
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26. Bauchwitz family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.325 | RG Number: RG-10.483
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2009
…Consists of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of siblings Peter Siegbert Bauchwitz and Rita Bauchwitz Molony, both of Halle, Germany…
27. Joe Van Rooyen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.53 | RG Number: RG-10.496
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2009
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
28. Chris Makas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.108 | RG Number: RG-10.508
Date:
manufacture: 2000-2010
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
29. Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers
2005.484 Box 4 Folder 8 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2005.484 | RG Number: RG-10.526
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2005
bulk: 1920-1960
…Dr. Leonore (Lore) Goldschmidt (1897-1983) was born in Gosda, Germany, near Klinge, to Wilhelm and Jenny (Marcuse) Zweig and had one sister, Martha…
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 … Goldschmidt, in Berlin, Germany and Folkestone, England before and during WWII, as well as Leonore’s professional career as an educator. The collection also…
30. Harry and Clare Lerner papers
1992.A.0110 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0110 | RG Number: RG-19.029.01
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
bulk: 1945-1950
… Smocleare, 1913-1999), who was born in London and came to Germany as a volunteer worker for the Jewish Relief Unit. Mr. Lerner was subsequently assigned to…
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 … Smocleare, 1913‐1999), who was born in London and came to Germany as a volunteer worker for the Jewish Relief Unit. Mr. Lerner was subsequently assigned to…
31. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
… with the 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Red Circle. They crossed the Rhine River into Germany in March. In early May, Heymont and…
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 …. In the war, Heymont served in Germany and Austria as an officer in the 5th Regiment of the 71st Infantry Division. Towards the end of the war, he…
32. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
33. Walter Hamann collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0071 | RG Number: RG-32.015
Date:
1992
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Germany--Photographs.…
34. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.23.1 | RG Number: RG-43.163
Date:
inclusive: 1964-1994
…Germany…
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 … interview was conducted with Beate Klarsfeld in France on June 24, 1997. Beate Klarsfeld, born in 1939 in Berlin, Germany, describes her family background…
35. Personal collection of Georges Neu
Document | Accession Number: 2020.3.1 | RG Number: RG-43.175
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1998
bulk: 1923-1943
…Jews--Germany--History--20th century--Sources.…
36. Oral history interview with Miriam Spiegel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.2 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0002
Date:
interview: 1993 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stay in Kránik, Poland; her move to a children's home near Lublin, Poland; her sister's move to Bergen-Belsen, Germany; her family's move to Bergen…
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 …,070 --> 00:16:10,400 To Bergen-Belsen, Germany. 314 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:10,900 Yeah. 315 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
37. 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…
38. Oral history interview with Liesel Mayerfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.22 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0022
Date:
interview: 1993 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Liesel Mayerfeld, born in 1933, discusses her early childhood in Frankfurt, Germany; her memories of pre-war life in Frankfurt; her memories of…
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 … resident of Elizabeth, 8 00:00:50,070 --> 00:00:56,400 who will tell us of her experiences 9 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,970 as a young child in Germany and…
39. Oral history interview with Paul Gast
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.29 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; his memories of Ravensbrück concentration camp; his memories of Watenstedt, a labor camp in Germany; his description of horrible conditions at…
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 … contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 39 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:22,890 Some of my mother's family moved to Germany before the war. 40 00:02:22,890 --> 00…
40. Oral history interview with Max Findling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.33 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0033
Date:
interview: 1992 December 03
interview: 1992 December 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … spoke fluent German, because he was born in Germany. 846 00:43:35,850 --> 00:43:37,340 But his family was from Zmigród. 847 00:43:37,340 --> 00:43:41…
41. Oral history interview with Henry Lowenbraun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.41 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0041
Date:
interview: 1992 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… near Stuttgart, Germany from 1945 to 1949; his marriage to his wife in 1946; the fate of his family during the Holocaust; his immigration to the United…
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 …, a sub camp of Dora concentration camp in Germany where Henry developed pneumonic pleurisy. The camp was liberated in April while he was in the…
42. Oral history interview with Margie Appel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.65 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0065
Date:
interview: 1993 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gelsenkirchen concentration camp in Germany to work on barges; the beating of Hungarian girls; their transfer to Essen concentration camp in Germany, to work in…
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 … back to Germany in the end. And he started to tie his shoes. He knew he was home and the Russians are close by. He started to tie his shoes. And he fell…
43. Oral history interview with David Rosenblum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.71 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0071
Date:
interview: 1993 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … have started, around 1938, when the German Jew were evacuated from Germany, they were shipped into our city, to Poland. Can you identify your city where…
44. Oral history interview with Lee Merel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.78 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0078
Date:
interview: 1992 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lee Merel, born in Berlin, Germany on April 7, 1924, discusses his current life in Westfield, NJ; his childhood in Berlin; his education at an…
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 … where you were born? 14 00:01:05,710 --> 00:01:13,860 I was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 7, 1924. 15 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:17,700 Can you tell us…
45. Oral history interview with Harold Zelmanovics
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.79 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Death marches--Germany.…
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 … Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was assigned to a group whose job was to repair cattle cars. They slept in the cars for four or five months. In…
46. Oral history interview with Tina Davies and David Davies
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.10 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0010
Date:
interview: 1991 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germany; her beliefs that Christians were no good because the killing of the Jews; how she and her husband believed in God but were not religious; raising…
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 … book was written by a Jew and not allowed in Germany. She could see the Germans doing the same thing and this alerted her to be on guard. 16:45 People in…
47. Oral history interview with Veronika Fassler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.16 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0016
Date:
interview: 1993 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution--Germany.…
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 …Veronika Fassler RG-50.028.0016 Summary of Interview Veronika Fassler born in Eisenärzt in the Bavarian Alps, 100 km from Munich, Germany. Father…
48. Oral history interview with Gisela Tillmann and Gerd Gotthold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.18 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0018
Date:
interview: 1991 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gisela Tillmann and Gerd Gotthold, born on November 24, 1923 in Herne, Germany and June 19, 1931 in Buchom, Germany, discuss their parents…
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 …Gisela Tillmann and Gerd Gotthold RG-50.028.0018 Summary Gisela Tillmann and Gerd Gotthold, born on November 24, 1923 in Herne, Germany and June 19…
49. Oral history interview with Max Liebster
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.34 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0034
Date:
interview: 1991 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Liebster, born February 15, 1915 in Reichenbach (Gemeinde Lautertal (Odenwald)), Germany, describes his father, mother, and two sisters; being a…
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 …Max Liebster RG-50.028.0034 Summary of Interview Max Liebster was born on February 15, 1915, in Reichenbach, Odenwald, Hessen, Germany. Father…
50. Oral history interview with Joseph Kempler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.106 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Landsberg (Germany)…
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 … of the persecution of people in Germany, including some gruesome pictures. [0:05:00] It wasn't the kind of books kids normally read but I did. So, I…