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1. Oral history interview with Bernard Lewkowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.70 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Forwards. --yeah, what is new in the America, the Golden Medina. How many Jewish families were there in this town in Poland? On this town in Poland was awful…
2. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee Germany, and pre-war and wartime photographs of…
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 … Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee…
3. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
…Jewish families--Germany--Breslau.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org 4 Topical Subject: Jewish families…
4. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…Jewish families--Germany--Breslau.…
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 …: Emigration & immigration--United States--1940-1950. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Testimonies. Jewish families--Germany--Breslau. Geography: Shanghai…
5. Arnold Hartmann correspondence
2000.63 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2000.63
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1949
…Jewish families--Poland--Wrocław.…
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 …. Indexing terms Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jewish families – Poland – Wrocław. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust victims' families. Jewish…
6. Oral history interview with Adda Gerstel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.20 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0020
Date:
interview: 1999 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
7. Sigmund A. Cohn papers
1996.A.0074 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0074
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1968
…Jewish families--Poland--Wrocław.…
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 … information about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org Indexing terms Jewish families – Poland – Wrocław. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) – Refugees…
8. 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
…Jewish families--China--Shanghai.…
9. 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
… the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…
10. Oral history interview with Eva Gottheiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.691 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0691
Date:
interview: 1993 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … had was as a-- to take care of a little girl in a Jewish family. And then I worked for a Jewish dentist as a dental assistant. And then my father wanted…
11. Oral history interview with Irma Benjamin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.795 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0795
Date:
interview: 1989 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…
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 … family always celebrated the Jewish holidays when she was a child and she and her brothers received Jewish religion lessons on Sundays. In 1919, after…
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 … This is November 1989. This Is Irma Benjamin and Im Peggy Coster and were at the San Francisco Jewish Home for the Aged. WHERE WERE YOU BORN That is…
12. Oral history interview with Stefanie Steinberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.962 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0962
Date:
interview: 1998 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
13. Oral history interview with Richard Shand
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.734 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0734
Date:
interview: 1994 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 …, Jewish, but not very devout. Does that explain it? Yes. Yes. Did you in any way belong to the synagogue or the Jewish community? https://collections…
14. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… authorities quickly enacted anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. The family’s bank accounts were frozen. Ernst became ostracized at…
15. Oral history interview with Claus Shelling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.736 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0736
Date:
interview: 1991 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … it. Do you have questions prior to? I have one question. You mentioned that your family was not terribly actively religious. Did you celebrate Jewish…
16. Oral history interview with Rose Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.377 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0377
Date:
interview: 1989 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--China--Shanghai.…
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 … away and discussions of her going on a Kindertransport. At 14 she was too old. Her family belonged to the Reform Synagogue and her stepmother sang in the…
17. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.803 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0803
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 …, Jewish, from the ghetto. And that he, my-- the friend of the family trying to save us from the Germans so we wouldn't be killed. She knew that. And he…
18. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… authorities quickly enacted anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. The family’s bank accounts were frozen. Ernst became ostracized at…
19. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … girlfriend at the time was Jewish, from a good Jewish family. And her parents wanted to leave right away, or left right away, or had the finances to leave…
20. Oral history interview with Ann Burger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.158 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0158
Date:
interview: 1999 December 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … Great. Her father Arthur Rautenberg was the manager of department stores (ladies wear/menswear). They were a religious family, kosher but not orthodox…
21. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… authorities quickly enacted anti-Jewish decrees that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. The family’s bank accounts were frozen. Ernst became ostracized at…
22. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
23. Oral history interview with Gerda Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.17 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0017
Date:
interview: 1998 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 …,080 --> 01:19:12,630 I met a very nice Jewish family who lived in the suburbs. 1458 01:19:12,630 --> 01:19:20,370 And they were really, really very sweet, 1459…
24. Oral history interview with Barbara Artman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0033
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Czechoslovakia.…
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 … apartment 595 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,230 with the original people who lived there, 596 00:28:18,230 --> 00:28:19,610 that was another Jewish family. 597 00…
25. Frank Liebermann family papers
2000.103 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2000.103
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1997
… Jewish Family Service, helping to obtain visas for 108 refugee families during and after World War II. Frank Liebermann married Marianne Sorter in 1950…
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 … 1938. His wife and son followed in October. He established a medical practice in Dayton, OH and became volunteer head of the Jewish Family Service…
26. Oral history interview with Stefanie Sucher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1274 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1274
Date:
interview: 1985 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … WITH JEWISH PEOPLE AND SOME OF THE FAMILY WORKED THERE.. SO EITHER WAS ON THE POWER MACHINE AND THEN WAS FINISHER.. FINISHER TAKES OFF THE THREADS THAT…
27. Oral history interview with David Wolnerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.107.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0876
Date:
interview: 2016 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … Synagogues. His family was religious as they did not work on Saturday. All the Jewish stores were closed on Saturday and they went to synagogue. His father…
28. Oral history interview with Edith Weigert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.653 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0653
Date:
interview: 1989 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…
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 …. AND WHERE IS ARMITREDDEN WHAT COUNTRY A. In Germany. Q. AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE IN YOUR FAMILY A. had twin sister she died and my parents and I. Q. NOW…
29. Oral history interview with Werner Barasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.392 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0392
Date:
interview: 2001 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … Summary: Werner Barasch was born into a wealthy Jewish family in May of 1919 in Breslau, Germany. His businessman father, Arthur, had founded the first mass…
30. 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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … remember that day-- 28 00:03:08,550 --> 00:03:14,400 on September 25th, there was a dance 29 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,120 of the Jewish Refugee Club, which…
31. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.222 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0222
Date:
interview: 1994 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … KNEW YOUR MOTHER WAS JEWISH She knew this was mother and daughter Jewish from the ghetto and that he the friend of the family trying to save us from the…
32. Oral history interview with Joseph Welgreen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.98 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0098
Date:
interview: 1992 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
33. Oral history interview with Madeline Deutsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.388.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0060
Date:
interview: 1990 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Ukraine--Berehove.…
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 … and the name of this city was Berehovo, on April 29, 1930. Q: Tell me about your family. 01:01:10 A: Well, my family were a very close and loving family…
34. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.211 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0211
Date:
interview: 1993 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … always the the outsider would just stand there and would always the finger was always pointed at me. SANDRA Were there no other Jewish families in the town…
35. Oral history interview with Gerda Levy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.520 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0520
Date:
interview: 2002 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
36. Oral history interview with Jola Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.74 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0074
Date:
interview: 1987 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …, well, I don't know how many Jewish kids there were. But I'm sure they were more than myself, because the Jewish families always had a very strong…
37. Oral history interview with Guenter Gruschka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.767 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0767
Date:
interview: 2003 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 … was called Ohlau-- O-H-L-A-U. And what was the economic status of your family? I would say middle class. And did you live in a Jewish neighborhood, or…
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
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
39. Oral history interview with Stefanie Sucher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.932 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0933
Date:
interview: 1990 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
40. Oral history interview with Annie Bleiberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.428.1 | RG Number: RG-50.822.0001
Date:
interview: 2014
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Jarosław.…
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 … also lost aunts, uncles, and a grandfather. When she was 10, the family moved to Jarosław (Jaroslav, Yaroslav, Yereslev), and her father moved into the…
41. Oral history interviews with the Laquer/Laqueur family
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0368 | RG Number: RG-50.304.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 July 07-1995 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with the Laquer/Laqueur family…
42. Hershel P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1366) interviewed by Steve Barger and Murray Berger,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1366
Author/Creator:
P., Hershel, 1922-
Published:
Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
43. Leon Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-725) interviewed by Dori Laub and Diane Fagelman,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-725
Author/Creator:
Z., Leon, 1924-
Published:
Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
… mitzvah; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; deportation with his family; stopping in Modlin where non-Jewish friends hid them; their return to…
44. Cyla S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2224) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2224
Author/Creator:
S., Cyla, 1927-
Published:
New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…; hiding with a non-Jewish family; moving with her parents and brother to Tovste; her father's disappearance during a mass killing; her mother…
45. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-967) interviewed by Kathy Strochlic and Pam Goodman,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-967
Author/Creator:
L., Ilse, 1915-
Published:
New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…-Jewish regulations; joining the resistance; hiding separately, with family or resistance members in Amsterdam, Bilthoven, Apeldoorn and Loosdrechtsche…
46. Nathan P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1164) interviewed by Gitta Chaet,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1164
Author/Creator:
P., Nathan, 1917-
Published:
Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1988
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
47. Marlies G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2176) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2176
Author/Creator:
G., Marlies, 1919-
Published:
New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
48. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
49. Adela C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-747) interviewed by Bobbie Berger and James W. Pennebaker,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-747
Author/Creator:
C., Adela, 1912-
Published:
Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
50. William K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1376) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein and Dvorah Lichstein,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1376
Author/Creator:
K., William, 1922-
Published:
Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…