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1. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Ullman, titled "A Stormy Survival" (1976), "Stories by Emily Ullman," the memoir of Leo Ullman, titled "796 Days," family geneaological data, and books and…
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 …-era experiences of Frank, Emily, and Leo Ullman who survived the Holocaust in hiding in and around Amsterdam. The collection included pre-war, wartime…
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2. Oral history interview with Barbara Ledermann Rodbell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0192
Date:
interview: 1990 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… underground contacts; the deportation of her mother, sister, and father to Westerbork and then to Auschwitz; working for the resistance and surviving using her…
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 … was she, and then it was a brother, Hans who also survived the war. The -- they all -- the brothers survived the war. Each of them had their own story…
3. Oral history interview with Ruth Buhling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.54 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0516
Date:
interview: 2007 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family life and education; moving to Amsterdam and making new friends; her experiences when the Nazis came to power; surviving during the war by having a…
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 … enough to do with the food and all, and -- Q: It must have been difficult just trying to survive in those circumstances. A: Yeah. And you had no coals, you…
4. Oral history interview with José Coltof
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.371 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0548
Date:
interview: 2008 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… happened to her and other children who survived the Holocaust.…
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 …, and the other one never married. My father’s sister with the six kids had only one surviving child, my cousin, who was my only survivor other than my…
5. Oral history interview with Anna Kool
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.590 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0030
Date:
interview: 2005 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… return of Frida de Raaij, the only family member to survive; her brother joining the police and arresting the family that betrayed her fiance; the trial…
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 … turn out to be abusive. They ask a lot of money from the wealthy De Raay family. De Raay family is betrayed and arrested. Only the sister of Bob survives…
6. Oral history interview with Betty Cana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.29 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiments by Dr. Claus Clauberg to avoid transfer to Birkenau, where she thought she could not survive; sending food and messages to her husband; a camp…
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 … afraid of the end of the war and the treatment was better. 2.27 Describes how life in her “group” helped her survival in the camp. 2.37 Talks about Bunker…
7. Oral history interview with Ursula Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.60 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0060
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… papers; returning to Amsterdam and her husband restarting his factory; trying to trace her relatives through the Red Cross; only finding two surviving…
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 … of these people that are there have not survived the Nazis. So this wedding took place in Berlin. In Berlin in 1927, I think. So you're a little girl…
8. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.29 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0029
Date:
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to work in a factory in Czechoslovakia; and her opinions on humankind in light of her Holocaust experiences and how she does not consider survival to…
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 …:16,180 --> 00:21:21,000 Do you see survival as an achievement? 380 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,230 No, I don't, no. 381 00:21:23,230 --> 00:21:25,320 I…
9. Oral history interview with Betsy Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.76 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0507
Date:
interview: 2006 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Wehrmacht office; her father’s deportation to Auschwitz; going into hiding and surviving with her mother and sister; coming out of hiding once the Nazis left…
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 …: And -- and -- and the wife was the blood relative, and she did not. But she is a very, very warm [indecipherable] Q: Uh-huh. But they both survived? A…
10. Oral history interview with Max Garcia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
interview: 1990 November 15
interview: 1991 February 21
interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… discusses his experiences at Auschwitz, his efforts to survive and his assignment to Buna (Monowitz) concentration camp, where Germans were building factories…
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 … reasonably good knowledge and speaking knowledge of that language. ITS AN EXCELLENT SURVIVAL SKILL. Well it was not survival skill as much as this is something…
11. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after the war; his two brothers and his sisters surviving in hiding; adopting a young repatriated boy whose parents were found later; making small wooden…
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 … took a chance. We figured we might still survive. We figured we couldn't believe that he could resort to practices like he did. https://collections…
12. Oral history interview with Stan Rubens
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.16 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0016
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… war; and his family’s survival.…
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 … Stan was hiding on a farm in the countryside. His family survived. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
13. Oral history interview with Henriette From-Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.12 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0012
Date:
interview: 1983 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; surviving the starvation, the hard labor, and the illnesses at the camp until the Russian troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau; staying in the Russian zone for…
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 … kept her pregnancy hidden until the child was born prematurely at eight months. Somehow through luck and determination, Henriette survived the starvation…
14. Oral history interview with Doriane Kurz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0432 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0001
Date:
interview: 1997 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the war; and her gratitude for surviving cancer.…
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 … train ride, she got typhus, which I had had before that. And she was not well, even before the typhus. She survived the crisis of the typhus in that…
15. Oral history interview with Ruchama Pinkof
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.352 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0352
Date:
interview: 1998 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s immigration to Palestine; meeting her future husband and immigrating to Israel; her firm belief that she would survive the concentration camps; and her…
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 … hepatitis, tuberculosis, typhoid, and other severe diseases. She says she was determined to survive. She found her 6-year-old sister in the children…
16. Oral history interview with Ya'akov ben Dror
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.186 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0186
Date:
interview: 1994 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… some surviving relatives; and eventually leaving for Palestine and working with the Armed forces when he arrived there in 1946.…
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 … when the Russians liberated him. He worked as a translator and clothing distributor after the war. He returned to Holland and found some surviving…
17. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
…, although Ernst later returned to Germany. Leopold and Lilly were arrested and interned at the Westerbork concentration camp for two years and survived…
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 … and survived. Oberlaender family members have spelled their name Oberländer, Oberlander, and Oberlaender, and all three spellings are used in this…
18. Oral history interview with Eleanor Weile
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.13.1 | RG Number: RG-50.172.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 October 04
interview: 1995 October 13
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… used to survive the camps.…
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 … would you say was-- the people that survived or the people that lasted the longest-- what do you think carried them most? Was it-- as far as their minds…
19. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… the Princess Irene Brigade, survived Normandy, and returned to Holland as a liberator to find most of his family had perished in the Holocaust. Hedi…
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 … Princess Irene Brigade, survived Normandy, and returned to Holland as a liberator to find most of his family had perished in the Holocaust. Hedi Grootkerk…
20. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
… sent on a forced-march to Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly…
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 … Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly after being liberated. Marion reunited…