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1. Oral history interview with George Elbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.146.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0958
Date:
interview: 2018 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in 1942; being hidden with a number of Polish families until the end of the war and only learned he was Jewish later; life after the war; his mother…
2. Oral history interview with Marsha Rozenblit
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.116 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … investigated his brother’s wife but he didn’t. That may mean that the family was angry that he had married a non-Jewish woman or something like that. Anyway Meir…
3. Oral history interview with Anna Post
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.66 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0066
Date:
interview: 1991 September 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anna Dulla Post (alias: Salome Czaplinska), born in 1923 in Bronocice, Poland, discusses growing up in a happy observant Jewish family of three…
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 … if I have anybody from my family, if anybody survived. I just felt I'm the only Jewish person in the whole world. And when we arrived in Auschwitz, it…
4. Oral history interview with Edward Darell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.304.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0940
Date:
interview: 2017 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … family because of many factors, including my father's guilt about being Jewish and hiding that fact. And that was one place where he could tell the truth…
5. Berkowicz family papers
2006.513.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2006.513.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1948
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …, David. Bursztyn, Faiga Tac. Hochenberg, Mania. Hochenberg, Moniek. Topical Subject: Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw. Refugees, Jewish. Warsaw Ghetto…
6. Sara Zayer papers
1995.A.0286.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
7. Sieraczek family papers
2015.569. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2015.569.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, Henryk Sieraczek, Jerzy (Jerome Sears) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish families--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
8. Oral history interview with Gary Keins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1214 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1214
Date:
interview: 1989 November 02
interview: 
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…
9. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs
2016.545.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2016.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1952
…Jewish families--Poland--Czestochowa.…
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 …, 1900-1986. Topical Subject: Emigration & immigration--United States--1940-1950. Jewish families--Poland--Czestochowa. Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw…
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10. Oral history interview with Margaret Blatman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.1.2 | RG Number: RG-90.159.0002
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, describes: being the youngest of three children in a loving family [Note: no date of birth or place beyond Poland given; later remarks suggest birth about…
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
…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…
12. Berkowicz family collection
1995.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0128 | RG Number: RG-10.313
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1942
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
13. Oral history interview with Renia Rutman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.24 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0024
Date:
interview: 1996 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … them. Renia’s brother married this girl after the war. Renia describes instances of betrayal and the family’s miraculous escapes. During the Warsaw…
14. 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…
15. Painting with blind incising used in a displaced persons camp by the Ehrlich vel Sluszny family
2008.228.25 back
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.25
Date:
received: 1945
Artwork Title:
View of the Austrian Alps
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
16. Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland
2009.376.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.376.28
Date:
emigration: 1940 April 20-1941 February 17
received: 1941 January
…Adult's pith helmet acquired in India during the journey to the US by a Jewish family fleeing German occupied Poland…
17. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0715
Date:
interview: 2019 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …th, 1943. Jewish fighters faced overwhelmingly superior forces of the the Germans but were able to hold them off for a full month. Let me and her family were…
18. Oral history interview with Michael Opas
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0076
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
19. Rozia Topor memoir
2008.257.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.257.1
Date:
inclusive: 1994
… younger brother, Moniek (1934). The Topor family was one of only a handful of Jewish families in town, and from the outset of World War II, suffered much…
20. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.37 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0037
Date:
interview: 1995 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--United States.…
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 … New York? CLAIRE: I grew up in New York City, yeah. And George went to school in New York, and he went to school in Florida and California. His family…
21. Oral history interview with Peter Parker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1752 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1752
Date:
interview: 1981 March 30
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…
22. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0273
Date:
interview: 2009 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
23. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0577
Date:
interview: 2016 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …'t have the faintest idea that the deportation meant death. Some Jewish people were forced to write false letters to families inviting them to go to…
24. Oral history interview with Gary Keins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.701 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0701
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
interview: 1989 December 13
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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 … colleague in my bank, a very fine fellow, a leading Jewish family in Warsaw. He fled to Russia. And unfortunately, he died there. And I met his family. And a…
25. Oral history interview with Martin Becker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.539 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0539
Date:
interview: 1993 May 24
interview: 1993 July 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: Martin had lived in Lodz, Poland. His immediate family comprised his parents and two brothers. He left, alone, to attend the American University in…
26. Oral history interview with Saul Raimi
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0081
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
27. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0618
Date:
interview: 2017 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … highlighted on this map of Poland, also in 1933. Estelle was the younger of two sisters. In addition to her parents, her family included many aunts, uncles, and…
28. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0448
Date:
interview: 2013 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … deportation meant that some people, Jewish people, were forced to write false letters -- excuse me -- to write false letters to families inviting them to join…
29. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0489
Date:
interview: 2014 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … addition to her parents, her family included many aunts, uncles and cousins. The Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Soon after the invasion, Estelle…
30. 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…
31. Red enamel cup used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.12
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
32. Oral history interview with Sara Gelender
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.71 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0071
Date:
interview: 1992 June 25
interview: 1992 September 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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 …:21,310 --> 01:08:23,955 No Polack will take all these Jewish people in. 1438 01:08:23,955 --> 01:08:26,040 No, a Jewish very wonderful family-- 1439 01…
33. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0665
Date:
interview: 2018 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …. Estelle was the younger of two sisters. In addition to her parents, her family included many aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Nazis invaded Poland on…
34. Oral history interview with Rita Ross
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.68 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0068
Date:
interview: 1996 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … childhood in Wolomin (approximately 30 km east of Warsaw); her father, Sama* Jabokowsky*, mother Blima*, and her extended family; moving into the ghetto in…
35. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0352
Date:
interview: 2011 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.92 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0092
Date:
interview: 1998 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--United States.…
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 … policeman, a Jewish policeman, and he walked back and forth. I met him and I knew that he is going, so I asked him to find out about this family. So after two…
38. Oral history interview with Andrew Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.66 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0165
Date:
interview: 2005 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Roosevelt was Jewish; his family receiving three Japanese visas from Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Consul; paying 600 dollars to get Soviet transit visas…
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 … assimilated in the Polish culture, he -- although the family was Jewish, they regarded themselves first as Poles and second as Jews. Remember that in the Warsaw…
39. Parker Lucky Curve duofold fountain pen used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.22
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
40. Oral history interview with Sarah Rozenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.30 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0030
Date:
interview: 1988 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … well as the high school, were primarily Jewish children-attended. And because there was an extended family, we didn't mix too much with youngsters of non…
41. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0386
Date:
interview: 2012 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … public school. In October 1940 German forces decreed the establishment of a ghetto. The Wakszlak family and more than 400,000 Jews from the city and…
42. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
…Jewish families--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 … children in the Holocaust‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish families‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish refugees‐‐United States. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Refugees‐‐United…
43. Oral history interview with Maria Rosenbloom
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0446 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0379
Date:
interview: 1996 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Maria Rosenbloom, born on December 26, 1918 in Kolomyia, Poland (Ukraine), describes her Orthodox Jewish family; learning the violin and playing it…
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 … always for the Polish and for some of the Jewish families too. But my father did more than this, handling the people from the city, but from all over they…
44. Oral history interview with Sophie Koper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.153 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0412
Date:
interview: 2001 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sophie Koper, born on May 5, 1916 in Moscow, Russia, discusses how her family, even though Jewish, was allowed to stay in Moscow because her mother…
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 … that I -- I -- that I am Jewish, but that’s all. It’s a [indecipherable] up to -- Q: Right. A: -- yeah, up to -- up to here. I tried to go to synagogue…
45. Oral history interview with Ruth Ackerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.1 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, and working for a German family under a false name; meeting her husband on a kibbutz; her children; Jewish identity; communication about the Holocaust…
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 … that I have a family. I didn’t tell them that my family was killed, you know. Why would my family be killed if I’m not Jewish? If I’m Polish, they…
46. Oral history interview with Michael Zancyck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1471 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1471
Date:
interview: 1989 April 01
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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 … Poland and go to Germany because my uncle felt that the Germans would never believe that Polish-Jewish family could actually live in Germany as Germans and…
47. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0319
Date:
interview: 2010 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
48. Portrait of a young boy who did not survive drawn postwar by his mother
1989.318.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.318.1.1
Date:
creation: 1977
Artwork Title:
My son, Bobus, at the Age of Four
…Luba Krugman was born on August 1, 1914, in Bialystok, Poland, to Jewish parents, Tewja and Anna Krugman. The family settled in Warsaw. In 1930, she…
49. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0236
Date:
interview: 2008 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
50. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0525
Date:
interview: 2015 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 …, 1943. Jewish fighters faced overwhelmingly superior forces of the Germans but were able to hold them off for a month. Estelle and her family were hiding…