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1. American Relief for Poland organization records
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0076 | RG Number: RG-19.046M
Date:
1939-1952
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Poland.…
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 …, American Relief for Poland delegate for Europe; general financial records of the Lisbon office; name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of…
2. Oral history interview with Paul Monka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.42 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0042
Date:
interview: 1989 May 17-1989 June 09
interview: 1989 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Poland.…
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 … the primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 13 00:01:00,450 --> 00:01:06,720 It was one of the oldest cities in Poland. 14 00…
3. Manual hair clipper with blade guard used in a concentration camp
2005.457.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.12
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
4. Oral history interview with Howard Waldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.885 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0885
Date:
interview: 1995 March 17
interview: 1995 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.…
5. Oral history interview with Barbara Makuch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.16 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0016
Date:
interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … living when the war began? In that central Poland this time, because I finished agriculture school in the Wilno. And then I came in the war to Warsaw to I…
6. Straight razor used in a concentration camp
2005.457.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.6
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
7. Oral history interview with Ron WG Jones
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.448.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0709
Date:
interview: 2012 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … is over.” So I was a prisoner of war. [DL] So when you were captured where were you sent? [RJ] We taken up to Tripoli and we were put in empty little…
8. Oral history interview with Sam Wolf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.137 | RG Number: RG-50.664.0001
Date:
interview: 2005 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
9. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee
2010.35.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.35.1
Date:
creation: 1949-1954
depiction: 1939-1954
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
10. Oral history interview with Zwi Golombek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0067 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0097
Date:
interview: 1998 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … or hole in ground when people come, called Henyek Uncle comes at end of war - places him in kibbutzim in Poland and Germany October 6, 1948 - goes to…
11. Oral history interview with Gloria Fredkove
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.2 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian.…
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 … siblings. They all died in concentration camps. After the war she tried to locate them but could not find them. My grandparents, my mother, brother and I…
12. Oral history interview with Andrew Tibor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1465 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1465
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
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 … they put us into the camps -- this camps were originally Russian prison camp for they kept io the German kept in the Russian prison camps. And when the…
13. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Concentration camps‐‐Liberation‐‐Germany‐‐Nordhausen (Thuringia) World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons, German. World War…
14. Oral history interview with Marsha Segall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.43 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0043
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Lithuanian.…
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 … September because war was declared, and Poland was attacked by the German army. Whilst you were growing up in Lithuania were you aware of any antisemitic…
15. Oral history interview with Fred Knoller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.…
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 …-- the same, I think, as Poland is, and the same as Ukraine and Lithuania and these countries. I think wherever there is strong Catholic relationship, this…
16. Eugeniusz and Irena Wojtas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1968
undated: 
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 … persecution--Poland. Forced labor--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons. Geography: United…
17. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0171
Date:
interview: 1990 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian.…
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 … years I was learned to be baker. And that's 1939 the war started. Q: What was your first recollection of the German invasion of Poland? A: Yes, that was…
18. Oral history interview with Alexander Roslan and Amelia Roslan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.74 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0074
Date:
interview: 1988 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … of the family. 10:00 The family sold the farm and opened a small wholesale Jewish store in Bialystok. War broke out in a few years. 11:00 Russian…
19. Oral history interview with Stefan Wohl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0413 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0060
Date:
interview: 1997 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.…
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 … Poland to be with your parents in Krakow. And then the next memory that you have? The next memory I have is the outbreak of the war. Who is, well, it…
20. Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0085 | RG Number: RG-58.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1950
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 …--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief. Humanitarian assistance--Switzerland--History--20th century…
21. Leather razor strop used by a barber in a concentration camp
2005.457.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.4
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
22. Oral history interview with Henry Konstam
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0054
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
23. Cardboard case for a straight razor used in a concentration camp
2005.457.29 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.29
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
24. Zbiór pamiętników, relacji i ankiet byłych więźniów (Sygn. VII)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.242 | RG Number: RG-15.271M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1980
Alternate Title:
Collection of memoirs, testimonies and questionnaires of the former prisoners
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish.…
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 …. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. Concentration camp Poland--History--German…
25. Oral history interview with Steven Galezewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0377
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
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 … and accounts of those who survived the prisoner-of-war camp, he apparently broke through the encirclement of Germans and buried the flag in a forest. Of…
26. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 …‐‐Netherlands. Refugee camps‐‐Germany. Typhus fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Hospitals‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945…
27. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …. Concentration camp inmates‐‐Poland‐‐Oświęcim. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners…
28. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … able to complete? Well, I remember I started school when I was four or five. And by the time I finished when the war broke out in 1939, I would say I was…
29. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.369 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0066
Date:
interview: 2000 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian.…
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 … sons, and in 1921, after the first World War, my mother decided to go Poland. I don’t know https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
30. Metal tube for a menthol inhaler used in concentration camp
2005.457.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.8
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
31. Oral history interview with Waclaw Kolodziejek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.7 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0007
Date:
interview: 1994 August 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … in the building of the Messerschmitt. He remained at this camp until Liberation in 1945. After Liberation, many of the prisoners pursued and killed the…
32. Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)
Document | Accession Number: 2001.19 | RG Number: RG-43.019M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1980
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
33. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager
2006.479.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.3
Date:
use: 1947-1951
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Russian--Personal narratives.…
34. Stanisław Maciejewski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.97 | RG Number: RG-15.081
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1981
bulk: 1946-1949
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers.…
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 …, undated Indexing terms People: Maciejewski, Stanisław, 1919-1985. Kennedy, Edward M., 1932-2009. Topics: World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish…
35. Oral history interview with Bernice Fishman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.36 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0036
Date:
interview: 1991 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Jewish World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees Holocaust survivors Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland - Kielce…
36. U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, 82nd Congress, 1st Session (RG 233)
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0339 | RG Number: RG-67.033M
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1952
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Soviet Union--Katyṅ.…
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 …__ (Polesie, Eastern Poland). Prisoner of Osta Szków until April 1940, severly beaten and loaded with other 300 taken to Wissma where six cars were…
37. Oral history interview with Irving Wolf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.80 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0080
Date:
interview: 1987 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.…
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 …Summary of Interview with Irving Wolf August 30, 1987 I was born October 9 in Czechoslovakia, during the war it was Hungary and is now part of Russia…
38. Oral history interview with Franciszek Skibinski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.26 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … concentration camps which we-- by the way fighting against the Germans with quite, so to say, professional purposes-- we liberated some prisoners of war and…
39. Oral history interview with George Dynin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.398.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0846
Date:
interview: 2015 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … times. A number of times, we had been during the World War II. And eventually, from here, we went to Poland. Back to Lódz. Back to Lódz, yes. OK. So…
40. Oral history interview with Albert Miller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.118 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0118
Date:
interview: 1994 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …, 1994 SUBJECT HEADINGS World War, 1939 - 1945 – Personal narratives – American World War, 1939 – 1945 – Prisoner of war – American Prisoner of war camps…
41. Oral history interview with Helena Orchon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.67 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0067
Date:
interview: 1988 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … in Western Europe, but Poland was in the east, and that is why European prisoners were killed in Poland and not Western Europe. 04:00 She held a radio…
42. Oral history interview with Irene Landau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.51 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0051
Date:
interview: 1987 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 … husband to be before the war, but not formally. 30.00 She came to him because she knew he needed help. The wife of her husband to be came to her sister, and…
43. Oral history interview with Fani Birnberg Ross
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0196
Date:
interview: 1991 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … of the world. She want her children here, in Poland. There was fifty thou...fifty thousand Christians, and two thousand Jews. We didn't do nothing to…
44. Oral history interview with Ludwig Shonberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.53 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0053
Date:
interview: 1989 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
45. Oral history interview with Teofil (Stefan) Kosinski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0355
Date:
interview: 1995 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … ______________ maybe 50 or 60 kilometers. It was the worst prison in Poland before the war and during the war. Only for Polish and Jewish prisoners. I will never forget…
46. Oral history interview with Renata Laqueur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0289 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0370
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Dutch.…
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 … said, “You first learn something which you can do anywhere in the world.” I mean this was '38. The war in Munich had happened and peace was just a matter…
47. Oral history interview with Father Francis Cegielka
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0052
Date:
interview: 1990 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.…
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 … unhappy because of the war. And my father was convoked to the army as the officer because he was ordered the school, and did then in the first year of...uh…
48. Oral history interview with Renata Skotnicka-Zajdman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.33.1 | RG Number: RG-90.163.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 …. When there was-- the war was-- when the German-- May the 8th, when Germany capitulated, I decided that I have to go back to Poland and find my brother…
49. Oral history interview with Edith Kramer and Friedrich Kramer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.37 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0037
Date:
interview: 1982 August 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 …. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
50. Oral history interview with Dora Iwler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.11 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0011
Date:
interview: 1989 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … After the war there was fervent anti-Semitism in Poland. Dora and her husband fled to Italy with the help of Haganah representatives in Germany. 1945…