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1. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
2. Edith Horn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.573.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2000
bulk: 1949-1963
…Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was…
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 … representing the Horn family in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Germany, between 1949 and 1981. Also included is family correspondence from a relative in Kibbutz Givat…
3. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Eva Ostwalt (1902-2010) was born in Cologne, Germany to Emil Lippmann and Else Ballin Lippmann. Eva had two younger sisters, Kate and Trude…
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 … father Emil and her ex-husband Karl, and some newspapers. Languages: English, Germany Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is…
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4. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…
5. John and Margot Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0265.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
…Margot Loewenberg was born in 1922 to Julius and Lily Stern in Frankfurt, Germany. She also had a younger brother named Werner. Her family managed…
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 … Jewish woman who escaped Germany via the Kindertransport, and later immigrated to the United States. Documents include correspondence, an identity card…
6. Levy and Lustig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.554.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1825-2004
…Fritz Levy (Friedrich Levy, 1890-1954) was born on 1 May 1890 in Cologne, Germany to Siegmund (1848-1920) and Bertha (née Lowenberg, 1856-1915) Levy…
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 … Accession number: 2017.554.2 Creator: Levy (Family : Cologne, Germany) Additional creator: Lustig (Family : Leipzig, Germany) Extent: 22 linear feet (10 boxes…
7. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… certificate, application for Austrian citizenship, letters of recommendation, and a travel pass document Lilli Wolff’s life in Germany and Austria and her…
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 … Germany and Austria and her immigration to the United States. Three narratives by Lilli Wolff describe her experiences in Nazi Germany and Austria: two…
8. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
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…Monique Joseph was born Helga Irene Kaufmann on 3 April 1924 in Cologne, Germany to Sally and Caroline Kaufmann. Her father, Sally Kaufmann (1898…
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 … Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and…
9. Oral history interview with Adolf Grünbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.100.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0240
Date:
interview: 2015 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … born and when were you born? A: Born in Cologne on the Rhine in Germany on May 15, 1923. Q: Let’s talk a little bit about your family now. Your parents…
10. Oral history interview with Alfred Fields
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.88.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1122
Date:
interview: 2021 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Reparations for historical injustices--Germany--History.…
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 … Fuhrer in Cologne, Germany on August 1, 1027. He changed his name when he arrived in the US. His parents were originally from Galicia in Poland. His father…
11. Oral history interview with Alfred Schnog
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.34 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0142
Date:
interview: 2001 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … Alfred Schnog RG-50.106*0142 Born January 25, 1931 in Cologne, Germany Twin brother Norbert Father - businessman in a metal trading firm Applied for…
12. Oral history interview with Al Horwitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.27 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0027
Date:
interview: 1984 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… battle to free the port of Antwerp, Belgium; being active in Holland; moving into Germany through Aachen, as part of the drive to Koln (Cologne); going to…
13. Oral history interview with Anneliese Fischer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.56 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0056
Date:
interview: 1993 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anneliese Fischer, a Holocaust survivor, born in 1918, describes growing up in Cologne, Germany; her education; Hitler’s rise to power; relationships…
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 … born in Solingen, which is in Germany. INT: And you need to spell that. ANNELIESE: Solingen - and my grandparents, my father, my sister, and brother…
14. Oral history interview with Caroline Blumenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.175 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0175
Date:
interview: 1981 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Caroline Blumenthal (née Schoenfeld), born in September 1900 in Cologne, Germany, discusses her family; having good relations with the non-Jewish…
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 … Restrictions: None SUMMARY Caroline1 Blumenthal, nee Schoenfeld, was born in Cologne, Germany in September 1900. Her family lived peacefully with the non-Jewish…
15. Oral history interview with Curtis Whiteway
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.402.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0253
Date:
interview: 1990 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… American forces further into Germany through the Siegfried Line; fighting near Cologne, Germany and encountering several concentration camps; helping to…
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 …], in 1925. November 3rd. Q: Tell me a little bit about yourself, and your advent into the Army. And, uh, then we can talk about your career in Germany. A…
16. Oral history interview with Edith Hartog Mayer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.364.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edith Mayer (née Hartog), born on June 17, 1923 in Aachen, Germany, describes her father, who was a member of the Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten…
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 … economics that Hitler came into power. Germany had lost the war, and the times-- the Treaty of Versailles was a terrible thing. And the population was poor…
17. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.342.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0111
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and brother to concentration camps when Germany declared war on France; her father’s return home for a short period until he had to join the French Army…
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 …...it was about Esther. (Long Pause) Q: As the Nazis began coming to power...uh...in Germany,...uh...did that affect your life at all? A: Yes. At that…
18. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0086
Date:
interview: 1984 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Elizabeth Rosenberg (née Kaufmann), born [on November 27, 1922] in Cologne, Germany, discusses growing up in Cologne; her experiences during WWII…
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 … in a very orderly household. I went to school at the-- first to kindergarten and then to a Catholic grade school. In Germany, it was customary to go to…
19. Oral history interview with Ellen Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.740 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0740
Date:
interview: 1990 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ellen Stern discusses her childhood in Cologne, Germany; her assimilated family; her early education in a Catholic school; the changes she…
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 … June 3, '24 in Cologne, Germany. And can you tell me a little bit about your parents. Well, my parents were quote, unquote, "old Germans" and have lived…
20. Oral history interview with Ernest Pollak and Ilse Pollak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.56 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0056
Date:
interview: 1987 January 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilsa Pollak, born 1923 in Pomerania, Poland, describes growing up in Cologne, Germany; experiencing more antisemitism after 1933; listening secretly…
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 … Interview with Ilse and Ernest Pollak January 8, 1987 Ilse Pollack was born in Pomerania, Poland but grew up in Cologne, Germany 01:1:14 Interviewer : ...Do…