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1. Articles and other materials relating to artists, musicians, and writers persecuted during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0009 | RG Number: RG-24.009
Date:
1970-1980
…Articles and other materials relating to artists, musicians, and writers persecuted during the Holocaust…
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 …RG-24.009 RG-24.009 Articles and other materials relating to artists, musicians, and writers persecuted during the Holocaust, ca. 1970-1980 1 United…
2. Igo Krischer papers
2016.152.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.152.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-circa 1984
…Jewish musicians--Poland--Biography.…
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 … alphabetically as one series. Indexing terms Person: Krischer, Igo, 1906‐1993 Sperber, Stanisław Sperber, Henryk Topical Subject: Jewish musicians…
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3. Oral history interview with Guillermo Graetzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.46 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0046
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Guillermo Graetzer, an Austrian-born musician and composer, describes being one of the founders of the Collegium Musicum (a prestigious institution…
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 … Europeans and Argentineans. Not many biographical details. Mr Graetzer, a musician and composer Austrian born, was among the founders of the Collegium…
4. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… from Galicia. He had three brothers, Bernhard, Isaak, and Sigmund and three sisters, Lisa, Nettie, and Augustina. His father was a musician. In October…
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 … Merkur, who was a musician in Austria; a prayer book belonging to Herman; William’s refugee identity card and post-war writings. Languages: German, English…
5. Oral history interview with Ignace Speiser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.37 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0037
Date:
interview: 1987 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… musician; playing Ernest Bloch’s Baal Sham; going to Fürstengrube to work in a coal mine, but being separated as a musician with his opera singer friend…
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 … musician. And this man told my father, his son-- a little son, at that time maybe eight years-- played violin. And my father said I have a son. He has a…
6. Oral history interview with Mary (Manci) Rosner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.18 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0018
Date:
interview: 1983 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mary (Manci) Rosner describes her pre-war life in Krakow, Poland; being married to a musician (Henry Rosner); life in the Krakow Ghetto: the work…
7. Oral history interview with Samuel Flor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.105 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0105
Date:
interview: 1981 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Samuel Flor, born in Chernovitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), describes experiencing antisemitism, his education, and his career as a composer, musician…
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 … his career as a composer, musician, and a professor at the university in Czernowitz. He describes life in Czernowitz first under Russian and then under…
8. Oral history interview with Francis Akos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
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 …. We -- we were musicians. We played in the orchestra and -- and there was craving for -- for some culture after awhile, but we played in this overcoats…
9. Oral history interview with Rudi Fruchter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.44 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0044
Date:
interview: 1993 December 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
10. Oral history interview with Francis Akos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.412.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0006
Date:
interview: 1990 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
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 … and a musician. Went to school, but I also went to the Music Academy and I was sort of “non-child” prodigy, because everybody was afraid of that word…
11. Oral history interview with Henny Gurko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.7 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… six other musicians in front of the SS and others; singing the Schubert Serenade in German; walking with the orchestra for miles on Sundays to other…
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 …. 64 00:03:37,395 --> 00:03:39,820 There were about six musicians sitting 65 00:03:39,820 --> 00:03:42,700 in the middle of the camp. 66 00:03:42…
12. Oral history interview with Grete Hirsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.509.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0258
Date:
interview: 2016 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… head of German Jewry; being a member of the Jewish Kulturbund musical groups; the gradual increase of restrictions on Jewish musicians; her brother Hans…
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 … have any other hobbies or – A: Yeah, I’m a musician. Q: A musician. What instrument? A: Violin. Q: Violin? So you played that as a child. https…
13. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… regularly performed for survivors in various displaced persons camps. In January 1946, he went to the Zeilsheim DP camp. In 1947, he became the first musician…
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 … Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps 2006.133.3 Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and…
14. Oral history interview with Leslie Robicsek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.112 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0112
Date:
interview: 1984 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and musicians perform at night; witnessing hangings after Sonderkommandos blew up a crematorium; beginning a death march on January 18, 1945; arriving…
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 … place. They even had their own whorehouse. The German SS and they had their own opera singers with the musicians, who played every time we went in and we…
15. Oral history interview with Zuzana Ruzickova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.7 | RG Number: RG-50.615.0001
Date:
creation: 1991
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marie Winn conducted the interview with her relative, the renowned Czech musician, Zuzana Ruzickova, in 1991. She donated the interview to the United…
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 …Renowned musician, Zuzana Ruzickova, discusses growing up in a Jewish family in Czechoslovakia prior to World War II; her early music lessons in…
16. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
… Shanghai, where they lived in the Hongkew district. His father worked as a musician, his mother as a barmaid in local bars and nightclubs, and he attended…
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 … (1910‐ 1950). The family left Germany in 1939 for Shanghai, where they lived in the Hongkew district. His father worked as a musician, his mother as a…
17. Oral history interview with Leo Rosner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.19 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0019
Date:
interview: 1983 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
18. Oral history interview with Henry Rosner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.17 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0017
Date:
interview: 1983 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
19. Oral history interview with Jerome Stasson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0433 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0005
Date:
interview: 1994 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Musicians.…
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 … was into the Infantry, and later, because of my music, I was transferred out of the Infantry outfit into another one where they needed a musician for a…
20. Oral history interview with Leon J. Freedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.12 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0012
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates as musicians.…
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 … 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:51,580 saw my life, including two sets of the famous monkey-faced 316 00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:58,540 musicians made by a famous…