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1. Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0057 | RG Number: RG-04.038.01
Date:
1945-1985
… starvation of prisoners; sanitation in the camp; disease; forms of execution used in the camp; mass burials of Bergen-Belsen victims; medical care for…
2. Oral history interview with Henry Lauth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.46 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0046
Date:
interview: 1989 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… poetry with the mistress of the Gestapo head whilst under interrogation; being sentenced to death and the delay of his execution; the confinement in a…
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 … NAME], Debeaumarché, Nicholas Ornstein, and myself were sent back to the bunker, that is the prison of Dora, to be executed. We were put in a cell of 1…
3. Oral history interview with Dora Zaidenweber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.12 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0012
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; ghettoization and conditions in the ghetto; the Einsatzkommandos, which were employed in Eastern Europe for mass executions; continuing her education in the…
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 … three million Poles, 1.5 million of which were living in poverty, and the rest were not well off. They didn't have the resources to plan or execute a plan…
4. Peter Clapham collection
1994.A.0022 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0022 | RG Number: RG-10.232
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1984
bulk: 1945-1950
…Executions and executioners.…
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 … and executioners. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) War crime trials. War crimes--History--20th century. War criminals--Germany. World War, 1939-1945…
5. Oral history interview with Fred Knoller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… matches and other entertainments; witnessing execution of escapees; inmate suicides on electrified fence; the effects of the Allied bombing on the factory…
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 … in the Resistance who were arrested and then tortured, were they always sent to a camp or were they executed? Well, sometimes they were executed…
6. Oral history interview with Eva Cutler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.55 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0055
Date:
interview: 1984 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Bergen-Belsen; witnessing a mass execution of men; a German army officer helping her to walk so she could keep going; how some townspeople offered…
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 … horrendous conditions and brutality during the death march to Bergen- Belsen. She witnessed a mass execution of men. A German army officer helped her walk so…
7. Oral history interview with Bronislaw Durewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.11 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation of Jews; joining the Polish underground in 1941; transporting forged papers from Warsaw to Western Poland; seeing a priest being taken for execution…
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 … sentenced to death. And they are leading him to the wall. And he was executed. I was lucky that I could hide myself with my camera and take this picture. What…
8. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Two witnesses and a civil party testify
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.516.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1627 | Film ID: 3990
Film Title:
Proces de Klaus Barbie
Date:
Event: 1987 June 03
Duration:
01:00:55
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… 14:57 Prosecutor Iannucci asks the witness to describe the execution of Resistance members after the last transport, on August 11, 1944 15:00…
9. Oral testimony of Paula Dash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 November 23
Subtitle:
Paula Dash Remembers
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the deported Jews communicated with the ghetto by leaving notes in the wagons and described the atrocities they were seeing; the execution of Jews in…
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 … clothes were still drenched in blood. They were being executed in Chelmno, about 60 kilometers north of Lodz. 14 One day there was a Kinder Aktion (children…
10. Oral history interview with Agnes Sassoon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.34 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shooting (Execution)…
11. Oral history interview with Sally Levenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.18 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0018
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shooting (Execution)…
12. Oral history interview with Zdenka Erlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.51 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0051
Date:
interview: 1985 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shooting (Execution)…
13. Charles Phillip Sharp collection
2004.664.3 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 73
Document | Accession Number: 2004.664.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, the commandant Kramer asked: “Why? They are Jews.” Kramer was later tried and executed for crimes against humanity. Philip and the three officers…
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 … arms etc in a building next to the Burgamasters office! Arrest the Burgamaster— he is terrified, for this offence he can be executed. He refuses to eat…
14. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…
15. Oral history interview with Jerzy Orwovski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.39 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0039
Date:
interview: 1980 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …. And I was told to go and see what happened and quieten them down because there was a fear that Germans may think we're executing German soldiers or…
16. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
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 … camp themes. Also contains a file of photographs depicting various scenes of executions and the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and a file of…
17. Oral history interview with Matthew Nesbitt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.65 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0065
Date:
interview: 1980 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … executions and the fighting and the life in Cambodia and in the East there and we know that many of these things that you witnessed are happening there, have…
18. Oral history interview with Sally Abrams
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.26 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 October 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … there any public executions? SA: There must be, but I didn’t see. I heard of it, but I didn’t see. Like they say, “You going to end like he end.” And they…
19. 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
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 … executed en masse by the “Einsatzgrouppen”? A: He did not know that the Jews had been executed; he knew simply that he did not encounter a single one of them…
20. Oral history interview with C. J. Williams
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.96 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0096
Date:
interview: 1980 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … executed there? They gave them an IQ test and several other psychological tests. Q: Who was that? A: Speer and Goering. High intellect, tremendous minds…