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1. Oral history interview with Horace J. Enger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.23.2 | RG Number: RG-90.230.0002
Date:
Recorded: 2001 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Horace J. Enger, born in Breslau, Germany, discusses his survival during WWII as a "mischling" in a labor camp on the Eastern Front.…
2. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Kurt…
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 … the Naumann family in Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt…
3. Oral history interview with Clara Dan
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0019
Date:
interview: 1982 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Koloszvar, Hungary (Cluj-Napoca, Romania); being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; surviving the selection with her sister; being sent with her sister to…
4. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being treated for meningitis with medicine provided by the Red Cross; being sent in 1943 to Auschwitz after a two week trip in a cattle car; surviving the…
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 … the Red Cross. In 1943 Lory was sent to Auschwitz after a two week trip in a cattle car. She survived a selection by Dr. Mengele. She describes living…
5. Oral history interview with Fred Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kolce, Poland), where there was a subcamp of Gross-Rosen (Riese camp); building roads; a Jewish Kapo who gave him advice on surviving the camp; suicides…
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 …, my mother’s name Helen, and my sister’s name is Gertrude. She by the way, is the only one who is alive today besides myself. She survived the war in…
6. Dov Lieblein photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1939
… in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Dov Benek Lieblein survived the Holocaust in hiding with his maternal aunt Chaya and her husband Aron Wilf, their two children…
7. Oral history interview with Henry Brauner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.8 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0008
Date:
interview: 1992 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to Auschwitz, but was able to survive there as a painter. After liberation he ended up in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart. He worked for the U…
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 … Germans as a painter and lived in a forced labor camp. He was eventually sent to Auschwitz, but was able to survive there as a painter. After liberation he…
8. 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
… bar mitzvah suit and bought himself a fake Polish ID; surviving the blockades and roundups with her mother by hiding; moving almost every day and hiding…
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 … survived the war in Russia my age. SANDRA In Russia 94 NELLIE In Russia yes. She became my best girlfriend and there was another one later on that also he…
9. 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
… find surviving family members; her experiences with antisemitism after the war; the Jewish community that emerged near Breslau and Reichenbach; her…
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 … raised by his older sister Bella wI-jo hadtwosons anda daughter. dont remember the boys names but the daughter is named Helena. She survived and Cesana…
10. 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
… car in the winter of 1944 to Gross-Rosen concentration camp; being taken to the Russian Front (near Stalingrad); surviving because a Russian soldier…
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 … him, and I got beat up with this too. Did he survive? When I left him, I seen him still alive, although this person was getting beatings every day. I…
11. 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
… 1945 by Russian troops, her and her mother's return to Warsaw and their attempts to find surviving family members. Ms. Cesana discusses her experiences…
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 …'s name, but the daughter is named Helena. And she survived and she lives in Los Angeles. She's 15 years older than me. And what about grandparents? My…
12. Oral history interview with Ilse Kaye, Robert Kaye, and Helga Franks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.18 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0018
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to handle crises; surviving in Paris with her mother and her father’s death from a heart attack; and her emotional reactions to visiting Germany in…
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 … the train. Got to France, hooked up with a friend. 00:47:00 Friend had rented an apartment for them. Eventually she and mother survived the Holocaust in…
13. Oral history interview with Lola Krause
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.88 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0088
Date:
interview: 1981 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Wasseralfingen, near Stuttgart, Germany; having another son; surviving on food packages from American relatives; immigrating in 1949 to the United States; their…
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 … borders, living in Jewish Agency camps in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland and at Waseralfinger, near Stuttgart, Germany. Another son was born and they survived…
14. Arnold Hartmann correspondence
2000.63 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2000.63
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1949
… to have died in La Paz in 1941 or 1942. Margarete Armer Goldberger, Marianna Armer, and Selma Weissfisch survived the war in Shanghai, and Selma…
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 … Goldberger, Marianna Armer, and Selma Weissfisch survived the war in Shanghai, and Selma Weissfisch eventually immigrated to Israel. System of…
15. 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
… California; never getting married; his mother’s death at age 92; crediting his survival throughout the war to his attitude of never giving up and not accepting…
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 … remained close to his mother until her death at the age of 92. Werner credits his survival throughout the war to his attitude of never giving up and not…
16. Oral history interview with Renee Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.4 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0004
Date:
interview: 2006 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1933; losing her parents to Auschwitz and the survival of her grandmother and aunt; the Nazi invasion in 1940; her family…
17. Oral history interview with Raoul Harmelin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.84 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Australia after a very difficult beginning; his relatives on both sides of his family who were killed or survived; and the actions of non-Jews during the…
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 … family who were killed or survived, and reflects on the actions of non-Jews during the Holocaust. See also 2 interviews with his wife, Rita Harmelin. Note…
18. Frank Liebermann family papers
2000.103 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2000.103
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1997
… authorities, the United Restitution Organization, U. S. Consulates, surviving members of the family living in Israel, friends, possible witnesses, and Friedrich…
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 … Organization, U. S. Consulates, surviving members of the family living in Israel, friends, possible witnesses, and Friedrich (Fritz) Knoblich, who had been the…
19. Fritzler family papers
1998.104 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.104
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1959
… December 1938. Walter and Agnes survived the war in Germany on false papers.…
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 … documents related to their son, Gerhard (now Geoffrey), who was able to go to England on a Kindertransport in December 1938. The Fritzler’s survived the war…
20. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
…, Ukraine), had two sisters named Celia and Pepka, and survived the Holocaust in Kraków under the assumed identity of Felicia Milaszewska, a Catholic Pole…
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 … was raised in Stanisławów, Poland (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), had two sisters named Celia and Pepka, and survived the Holocaust in Kraków under the…