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1. Oral history interview with Masha Putermilech
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.121 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0121
Date:
interview: 1993 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… obtained food and survived in the forest; meeting her future husband in the forest and how he took care of her and helped her survive; the Warsaw uprising…
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 … to survive. TAPE 5 OF 6 (11.19.1993) 12:01:05 We had contact with the Fighters Organization all the time. Yitzchak Zuckerman came to visit us from time…
2. Oral history interview with Shoshana Naor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.112 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0112
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cyprus; eventually going to Palestine; and why she felt she survived.…
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 … think I succeeded in surviving through all of this because I was strong. I am glad I am here, and I have the feeling I did something valuable in my life…
3. Oral history interview with Zachar Trubakov
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.158 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0158
Date:
interview: 1992 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… bodies; how three hundred twenty-seven persons tried to escape en masse, but only fourteen survived; how he did not know which way to go after escaping…
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 … in my apartment I would not survive. One man hid us but not for long and soon he told us we had to look for place to live. Man was good to us but he…
4. Oral history interview with Juta Bergman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.603.5 | RG Number: RG-50.637.0005
Date:
interview: 2005 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from a camp and returning to the ghetto; surviving several camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Łódź; and getting…
5. Oral history interview with Benjamin Lavi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.8 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0008
Date:
interview: 1991 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… care; his father being hospitalized and dying on May 6; his mother’s survival of Bergen-Belsen, where she worked in a hospital, and finding him in…
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 … two cousins survived. Unfortunately one of them lives now in Germany. Describes German occupation and gradual persecution and restrictions [no radio…
6. Oral history interview with Iakov Politzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.118 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0118
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… realized his age; a scarlet fever epidemic; fighting to survive for the sake of his parents; getting sick, being temporarily hidden by his boss, but…
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 … survival skills. Parents traveled a lot. In 1936 they even visited Palestine. Father was offered to buy land in Haifa, but declined... Parents never dreamed…
7. Dr. Aharon Pick diary
2000.132 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.132
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… his death following an illness in June 1944. His wife, Dvorah (Deborah) Tatz Pick, survived the ghetto but perished at Stutthof. Their son Tedik…
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 … and to the U.S.S.R, and the homes of common Jews who had escaped for their lives along their families to nearby town and villages to survive bombings…
8. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-Benzin AG) and Sömmerda. She survived a seven week death march in spring 1945 and was liberated by Soviet forces. Her husband, Jacob Koppler Kempler, was…
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 … Gelsenkirchen (Gelsenberg-Benzin AG) and Sömmerda. She survived a seven week death march in spring 1945 and was liberated by Soviet forces. Her husband, Jacob…
9. Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5050 | Film ID: 3782, 3783, 3784, 3785, 3786, 3787, 3788, 3789, 3790, 3791, 3792
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Zaidel and Dugin
Date:
Event: September 18-19, 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
03:54:00
… survive. Dugin had no such certitude at the time. Dugin was made to work in a group responsible for constructing roads and railroad tracks in a camp called…
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 … out, come back to the ghetto and then they told us exactly what had happened. Q: That’s the truth, there were people who survived Ponari, who were…
10. Corfu
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5043 | Film ID: 3406, 3407, 3408, 3409, 3410, 3411, 3412, 3413, 4693, 4694, 4695, 4696, 4697
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interviews with Jewish survivors of Corfu and Shots of Locations
Date:
Event: September 1978
Production: 1985
Duration:
05:00:00
…Lanzmann filmed the few surviving Jews of Corfou, Greece. Many are craftsmen who experienced deportation to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Some interviews…
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 …. 20 Q. Tell him that I pose it because there are Jews who survived at Auschwitz and who because of the massacre of six million Jews at A. [Auschwitz…
11. Simon Srebnik - Chelmno
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5024 | Film ID: 3278, 3279, 3280, 3281, 3282, 3283, 3284, 3285, 3286, 3287, 3288, 3289, 3290, 3291, 3292
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Simon Srebnik
Date:
Event: September 1978 (Poland) and Fall 1979 (Israel)
Production: 1985
Duration:
05:08:24
… only one surviving family member. He also asks about the Miszczak (or Mistrzak) family, which he used to visit often. They discuss how nice the place…
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 ….L. So? S.S. Only one person survived, as Mr. Srebnik said; the others were terminated; the Jews knew that no one ever left here alive. If I run away, they…
12. Yehuda Lerner - Sobibor
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5030 | Film ID: 3334, 3335, 3336, 3337, 3338
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Yehuda Lerner
Date:
Event: October 11, 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
02:27:36
… escape the execution that the sick were subject to. Lerner says that he was simply very lucky to survive all of these captures, being taken to a new camp…
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 … lead us -16- LR: to the ghetto; in the ghetto, we have so much the air… we no longer have a human appearance, the Jews told us, you can never survive…
13. Mordechai Podchlebnik - Chelmno
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5026 | Film ID: 3294, 3295, 3296, 3297
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Mordechai (Michael) Podchlebnik
Date:
Event: May 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
02:00:00
… night. They were exhausted, they had seen family members now dead, and witnessed a Ukrainian killing a man who had survived the gassing. He tells of…
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 … where they died in the forest …..He gave himself how many days of survival? How many days of survival did he give himself? R : -He said that he did not…
14. Abba Kovner - Vilna
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5017 | Film ID: 3236, 3237, 3238, 3239, 3240, 3241, 3242, 3243, 3244, 3245
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Abba Kovner
Date:
Event: September 27-28, 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
04:44:24
… all of a sudden and it was terrifying. People were not talking of dates or facts, they were asking simple questions about survival. Kovner remembers…
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 … were [ ] speaking of human beings. And… people were asking questions, very simple ones, questions of existence, of survival… and also questions as stupid…
15. Hansi Brand
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5002 | Film ID: 3109, 3110, 3111
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hansi Brand
Date:
Event: September or October 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
01:42:00
…. Lanzmann says that some people from Cluj who survived Auschwitz later complained that they were not told what it meant to be sent to the camp. Hansi Brand…
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 … help of the rescue mission at all, nor the help of Brand, nor the help of Kasztner, nor of us. La: Yes. HB: So, any Jews surviving at all, that’s due to…
16. Hanna Marton
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5008 | Film ID: 3148, 3149, 3150, 3151, 3152, 3153, 3154, 3155, 3156, 3157
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Hanna Marton
Date:
Event: October 10-11, 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
03:33:00
… of those who survived, although her husband, being a fatalist, did not feel guilty. FILM ID 3156 -- Camera Rolls #20-21 -- 09:00:00 to 09:17:10 Marton…
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 …. Certain of them, moreover, received the “__________________”; that was a very rare distinction given to those who had survived these very difficult…
17. Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5048 | Film ID: 3745, 3746, 3747, 3748, 3749, 3750, 3751, 3752, 3766
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman
Date:
Event: October 4-6, 1979
Production: 1985
Duration:
03:38:00
… Germans. Rotem, Richek and the two sewer guides left the sewer while the ten fighters went in search of surviving fighters in the ghetto. They agreed to…
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 …, for our losses, the surprise had been truly great, to see that we could fight against the Germans and survive, was for us very important. Page 17 It is…
18. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 1: Lucien Dreyfus collection 1903-1944
    • File 4: Diary, (Cahier A) October 1925-May 7, 1941
    • File 5: Diary, (Cahier B) May 8, 1941-June 14, 1942
    • File 6: Diary, (Cahier C) January 16, 1936-August 23, 1942
    • File 7: Diary, (Cahier D) August 24, 1942-November 13, 1942
    • File 9: Diary, (Cahier F?) February 21, 1943-June 30, 1943
      • Pages: 2, 4
19. Oral history interview with Ze'ev Scheinwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.140 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0140
Date:
interview: 1993 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … younger than 30. The desire to survive vs. heroism. 6.29 What they knew about the Warsaw revolt. 6.41 The food situation. Describes work situation and…
20. Oral history interview with Tzvi Aviram
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.4 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … various underground groups, their interrelationships and their methods of financial survival. 4.55 Arrest of underground members. 5.10 His hiding place is…