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1. Oral history interview with David Phillips
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.169.4 | RG Number: RG-90.141.0004
Date:
interview: 2020 September
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dortmund (Germany)…
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 … mining town near Dortmund, Germany, discusses: the local synagogue being burned during Kristallnacht; Jeffrey’s grandfather (also named David) being…
2. Bienstock family papers
2015.501.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.501.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1997
bulk: 1940-1958
… children Joseph and Martha before the Holocaust when they fled Dortmund, Germany for the United States via Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, and…
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 … (bulk 1940‐1958) Accession number: 2015.501.1 Creator: Bienstock family (Dortmund :Germany) Extent: 8 folders, 1 oversize folder Repository…
3. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… (June 6, 1884-September 7, 1943) married Hedwig Strauss (November 27, 1889-October 1944) on December 19, 1920 in Dortmund, Germany. They had two children…
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 …: 1890s-1950s Accession number: 2018.663.1 Creator: Ostwald (Family: Dortmund, Germany) Additional creator: Strauss family Additional creator: Tendlau…
4. Oral history interview with Vera Koppel Sander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.663.3 | RG Number: RG-90.110.0002
Date:
interview: 2015 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Dortmund.…
5. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Ursula Lenneberg was born on April 24, 1926, in Dortmund, Germany, but raised in Aplerbeck. Her father, Otto, was Jewish and her mother, Caroline…
6. Oral history interview with Ursula Pawel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.481 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0488
Date:
interview: 2004 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Pawel (née Lenneberg), born in 1926 in Aplerbeck, Dortmund, Germany, discusses her childhood; the discrimination against Jews in Germany from…
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 …. Q: Four 20 -- A: April 24th, 1926. Q: Uh-huh, okay. And where were you born? A: In Dortmund, in Germany. Q: And let’s talk a -- a little bit about…
7. Oral history interview with Jutta Lewkowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.6 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0006
Date:
interview: 1992 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jutta Lewkowicz, born in 1928 in Dortmund, Germany, describes her father, mother, and two sisters, Ruth and Renee (she was the oldest sibling); the…
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 …, 1992. And our guest tonight is Jutta Lewkowicz. Jutta, will you tell us your story? My story. My story starts, I was born in Dortmund in 1928. And I had…
8. Oral history interview with Walter L. Heyman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.322 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0322
Date:
interview: 1996 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Heyman childhood in Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany; his family's flight from Germany to the Hague, Holland in 1936; his brief attendance at a…
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 … Katrina Sadler. Could we begin by you telling me about where 10 you were born and your family 11 A. Yes. was born in Germany in the town of cv9 7rE4 12…
9. Oral history interview with Hans Herzberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.29 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0029
Date:
interview: 1988 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Dortmund, Germany in a bell factory welding steel bells; being arrested by the Gestapo in November 1938 and transported by train to Sachsenhausen; life in…
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 …; your childhood years in Germany. A. I lived in the city Hanover. Q. What year were you born? A. 1919. I lived a comfortable life. My father was a…
10. Oral history interview with Gisela Tillmann and Gerd Gotthold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.18 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0018
Date:
interview: 1991 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their memories of visiting their father during his time in the Dortmund, Germany Steinwache prison; their father’s second arrest in February 1944 and his…
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 …’s Witnesses, including their father, in spring 1936; their memories of visiting their father during his time in the Dortmund, Germany Steinwache prison; their…
11. Oral history interview with Martin Ostwald and Lore Ostwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.663.2 | RG Number: RG-90.110.0001
Date:
interview: 2009 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Dortmund.…
12. 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
…Ludwig Shonberg, born April 8, 1924 in Dortmund, Germany, discusses his personal details; his familial, educational, and social background; the…
13. Werner Isenberg papers
1993.49.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1993.49.3
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Werner Isenberg (1911‐1994) was born in Dortmund, Germany, to Simon (1875‐1964) and Lina Isenberg (née Kleeblatt, 1881‐?). His older brother Kurt…
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 … correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives…
14. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
… December 1881 in Dortmund, Germany to Albert and Bertha (née Winter) Rhée. He had at least one sister, Paula (later Paula Kleinstadt). Max owned an export…
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 … Dortmund, Germany to Albert and Bertha (née Winter) Rhée. He had at least one sister, Paula (later Paula Kleinstadt). Max owned an export business. Else and…
15. Oral history interview with Eva Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.144 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0144
Date:
interview: 1999 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Cohn (née Eva Maria Rhee), born in 1923 in Dortmund, Germany, describes her parents, Max Rhee and Else Heinemann; experiencing a warm family life…
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 …: (Deceased) Eva was born Eva Maria Rhee in Dortmund, Germany on 9/2/23 to Max Rhee and Else Heinemann. Eva remembers a warm family life and peace in her early…
16. Oral history interview with Margaret Guiness
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.20 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, allowing her to smuggle food to her sister and her barrack; volunteering with her sister to work at a factory in Dortmund, Germany to help build rocket bombs…
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 … her barrack; Volunteered with her sister to work at a factory in Dortmund to help build rocket bombs; Stayed there until spring of 1945; February 1945…
17. Oral history interview with Gertrude Sonnenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.50 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0050
Date:
interview: 1989 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, universities, and professions to Jews in the late 1930s; her time in Dortmund, Germany, working as a dressmaker; Kristallnacht; the conversion of her house to a…
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 …. Her sister went to Cologne, Germany as a nurse. Gertrude went to Dortmund, Germany to be a dressmaker. She seemed to do everything but dressmaking. She…
18. Oral history interview with Deborah Gubi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.558 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0558
Date:
interview: 1995 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Deborah Gubi discusses her childhood in Dortmund, Germany and Vienna, Austria; her memories of the Anschluss in March 1938; being expelled from…
19. Oral history interview with Marianne Oelsner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.29.1 | RG Number: RG-90.165.0001
Date:
interview: 2017 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marianne Oelsner, born in 1922, discusses her childhood in Dortmund, Germany; her parents’ decision to send her to England in 1936 when life in Nazi…
20. Oral history interview with Henry Birnbrey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.399.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0847
Date:
interview: 2015 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Birnbrey (né Chaim Birnbrey), born on November 29, 1923 in Dortmund, Germany, describes being an only child to his parents, Jennie Jacobson and…
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 …Henry Birnbrey October 22, 2015 RG-50.030*0847 Abstract Henry Birnbrey was born Chaim Birnbrey November 29, 1923 in Dortmund, Germany to Jennie…