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1. Oral history interview with Max Roisman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.95 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0095
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Oranienburg (a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen) to work in a brick factory; working as a tailor for the commandant of the camp, Major Heydrich, and being put in…
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 … the commandant of the camp, Major Heydrich and was put in charge of four other tailors. He obtained food and clothing for other inmates and himself by…
2. Oral history interview with Edward Kaplan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.1 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transported to Majdanek concentration camp; being saved from the gas chambers when he was selected to work in the Henkel Were near Deblin under Commander Feiks…
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 … counted again before retiring. Commander Feix, who oversaw http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
3. Oral history interview with Jan Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.401 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0025
Date:
interview: 1996 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Warsaw uprising and being sent as an emissary by the Polish commander in chief of the underground army to London, with microfilms of the uprising…
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 … survivor of the Warsaw uprising who was sent as an emissary by the Polish commander in chief of the underground army, and of the Warsaw uprising to London…
4. Oral history interview with Marion Chervin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.7 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0007
Date:
interview: 1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a railroad; Jewish commandants; going to a school where they taught him to build parts for airplanes; walking daily to a labor factory; their meager…
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 … the Jewish commandant of the camp. 13:00 The Jewish commandants were Jewish POWs from Eastern Poland who could not be sent home, because it was Russia…
5. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, the Commandant of Płaszów concentration camp; being transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in August 1944; forced labor in Mauthausen; the SS and…
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 …,160 you are arrested. 59 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,946 And I provide you to the police command. 60 00:03:54,946 --> 00:03:58,610 And he provide us to his…
6. Oral history interview with Susanne K. Bennet
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.28 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0195
Date:
interview: 2012 March 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the nuns were later rounded up, but were saved on the train platform by a Catholic commandant; how her father escaped from the ghetto through the sewers…
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 …,990 --> 00:10:57,730 had been educated in Zwickau, one of his fellow engineering 208 00:10:57,730 --> 00:11:00,160 students was a German commandant. 209 00:11…
7. Stanislaw Mambort papers
2014.459.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2014.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-approximately 1946
…) as commander of section "Sarma." On October 6, 1944 he was imprisoned in Stalag XB with prisoner number 222821. Upon his liberation he joined the…
8. Dedication of the Rapoport monument to the Warsaw ghetto uprising
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.715.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4334 | Film ID: 2746
Film Title:
Rocznica Getta
Date:
Event: 1948 April
Duration:
00:09:30
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Marek Edelman was a commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and a member of Zukunft, the youth movement of the Bund. He unveils a monument to the…
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
…. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…
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 …. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…
10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.165 | Film ID: 2165
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 July 17
Production: 1961 July 17
Duration:
00:29:18
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… resumes in the middle of the session. Hausner questions Eichmann about whether Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, showed him the camp and the…
11. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4291 | Film ID: 2758
Film Title:
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:18:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… dig in a large field, German officer in command. 01:09:01 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men…
12. Israeli postage stamp commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising
2005.357.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.357.1
Date:
issue: 1968 April 24
…’s Commission on the Holocaust (1978–79) and on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 through 1988. In 2006, he received the Knight Commander…
13. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
… inhabitants. The ZOB had been preparing for their arrival, and the Warsaw ghetto uprising began. Michal fought in the brush factory district under the command…
14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 25 -- Testimony of Y. Zuckerman
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.036 | Film ID: 2035
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 May 03
Production: 1961 May 03
Duration:
00:54:55
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… commander of one of the three sectors of the ghetto. As a representative of the ZOB, Antek was sent to the Polish side of the city, to secure contacts with…
15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.163 | Film ID: 2163
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 July 17
Production: 1961 July 17
Duration:
01:05:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Commander of the Security Police in Cracow, Poland. The remaining footage concerns Müller's capacity to issue orders in the General Government (00:55:38…
16. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 25 and 26 -- Testimony of Z. Lubetkin, Y. Zuckerman, A. Berman, R. Kuper
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.037 | Film ID: 2036
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 May 03
Production: 1961 May 03
Duration:
00:58:42
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. Berman became one of the commanders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto. After the war ended, Berman went to visit Treblinka concentration camp…
17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 26 -- Testimony about children and the Polish underground
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Film | Accession Number: 1999.A.0087 | RG Number: RG-60.2100.038 | Film ID: 2037
Film Title:
Eichmann Trial
Date:
Event: 1961 May 03
Production: 1961 May 03
Duration:
01:00:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. Berman became one of the commanders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto. After the war ended, Berman went to visit Treblinka concentration camp…
18. Warsaw liquidation photographs
2005.470 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2005.470
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
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  • Warsaw liquidation photographs
    • Pages: 3
19. Tabaczyński and Asz families papers
1999.312.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.312.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
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 … Asz” by the commander of the security police and SD, December 30, 1939, Warsaw, Poland. Folder 2. Tabaczyńska, Eugenia, 1943-1947 1. Partial identity…
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  • Series 1: Biographical materials 1939-1947
    • File 1: Asz family 1939
      • Pages: 3
20. 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
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 … government, and the Polish high command-- I mean, of the Polish army-- they all fled east towards southeastern Poland and Romania, on that day. And thousands…