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51. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 …:01:07,340 Sometimes, this town was Germany. 20 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,220 Sometimes, it was Poland. 21 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,810 Now, it's just…
52. Oral history interview with Gerald Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.27 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0027
Date:
interview: 1985 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gerald Adler, born June 27, 1925 in Elmshorn, Germany, describes growing up in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family; moving to Berlin, Germany…
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 …: None Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 77 SUMMARY Gerald Adler, born June 27, 1925 in Elmshorn, Germany, grew up in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family…
53. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.14
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
54. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…
55. Oral history interview with Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1454 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1454
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gabriele Silten discusses her early childhood in Berlin, Germany; her family's decision to escape to Holland in 1938; the changes she experienced…
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 … realized that something was disturbing the regular 15 routine of life and your family was trying to get away from 16 Germany and there were reasons. Tell me…
56. Oral history interview with Ann Weinstock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.654 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0654
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
interview: 1990 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews describe Ms. Weinstock's childhood in a small town in Germany near the Polish border; her memories of antisemitism after the Nazi…
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 … that more or less in Germany. In fact was spoiled very much. was the only girl in the family so wasnt only spoiled from my parents but was spoiled from…
57. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.15
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
58. Oral history interview with Ruth Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.819 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0819
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth G. Silten, born on May 30, 1933 in Berlin, Germany, discusses moving to Amsterdam, Netherlands with her parents and grandmother after…
59. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Schwarcz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.103 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0103
Date:
interview: 1989 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
60. Oral history interview with Freda Silberberg Wineman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1217 | RG Number: RG-50.122.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22-1989 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lower Saxony (Germany)…
61. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
62. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.16
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
63. Oral history interview with Bernie Bratt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.182 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0182
Date:
interview: 1988 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany to see his brother and sister in October 1945; immigrating to Israel; and immigrating to the United States in November 1956.…
64. Oral history interview with John Wahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1281 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1281
Date:
interview: 1986 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…John Wahl, born in 1913 in Wuppertal, Germany, discusses his childhood; his family's business; his education; the changes he experienced after 1933…
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 … -- we were attacked once in our town by SA men and we had to take 16 refuge in home but it became unthinkable that stay in 17 Germany because there was no…
65. Oral history interview with Abraham Pasternak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.24 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0024
Date:
interview: 1982 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to shave off their beards; being sent to Auschwitz and life there; being sent to Schlieben and his work there; his work in Zeitz, Germany (Tröglitz…
66. Oral history interview with Edith Kramer and Friedrich Kramer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.37 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0037
Date:
interview: 1982 August 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dr. Edith Kramer (née Liebeck), born October 7, 1899 in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), describes her family’s background; her…
67. Oral history interview with Kurt Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.753 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0753
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kurt Moses, born on July 18, 1925 in Linnich, Germany, discusses his family moving to Holland for safety in the 1930s; his deportation to Westerbork…
68. Oral history interview with Walter Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… uncles deciding to move the family to Stuttgart, Germany in 1936; attending an all Jewish school; the events on Kristallnacht, including the burning of the…
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 … were told that they had to go back to Germany, because their ship was not there yet. 0:34 So they went back to Cologne and were put up by a Jewish…
69. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.180
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1995
undated: 
…Lilly Goldschmidt (1903-1995) was born Lilly Mannsbach on 12 December 1903 in Beverungen, Germany to Karl and Luise Mannsbach. Her father Karl…
70. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.17
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
…Henry Frank (1918-2002) was born Heinz Frankenstein in Berlin, Germany to Jakob (1888-1942) and Anna (nee Zydower, 1891-1944) Frankenstein. Heinz had…
71. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
…Stephen Joseph Fraenkel (born Stefan, 1917-2002) was born on 28 November 1917 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Martha Fraenkel. His father Max (born…
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 … experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish…
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72. Oral history interview with Alexei Gorlinsky, Lieutenant Petrenko, and Colonel Kotlyar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.15 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
73. Oral history interview with Helene Goodman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.107 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0107
Date:
interview: 1981 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transport by a Jewish supervisor and going to Hainichen, Saxony, Germany; working as a slave laborer at Framowerke, an ammunition factory; the living and…
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 … (a subcamp of Flossenbürg), near Chemnitz, Germany to save her life. Helene worked as a slave laborer at Framowerke, an ammunition factory. She…
74. Oral history interview with Gitla Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.59 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0059
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany after three weeks in Auschwitz; conditions in Bergen-Belsen; her time in Raguhn, Germany from January…
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 …. Do you remember any changes that took place in your town when Hitler came to power in Germany? This time when Hitler come to power, I was in Krakow. I…
75. Oral history interview with Karoline Fischl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.11 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0011
Date:
interview: 1985 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oederan (Germany)…
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 … till Hitler came, no discrimination at all, no, no. What was your reaction and that of your husband when Hitler came to power in Germany? Well, I was a…
76. Oral history interview with Irving Altus
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0003
Date:
interview: 1982 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the occupation; being arrested and sent to various labor camps throughout Europe, including one in Königsberg, Germany; being transferred in 1942 to…
77. Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.486 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0486
Date:
interview: 1990 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… orphanage after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1939. Ms. Oppenheimer describes her deportation to and experiences in Theresienstadt…
78. Records relating to the activities of the International Red Cross in Terezin
Document | Accession Number: 1991.008 | RG Number: RG-04.014.01
Date:
1939-1990
…Berlin (Germany)…
79. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
…Bernhard Blumenthal (b. 1863, Germany) was a farmer born in Hüttengesäß, Germany (a district in Ronneburg) to Moses and Jette Blumenthal. Bernhard…
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 … Dates: 1901‐approximately 1993 (bulk 1901‐1956) Accession number: 1993.104.11 Creator: Blumenthal (Family : Hüttengesäß, Germany) Extent: 0…
80. Oral history interview with Helen Shonberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.38 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 March 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
81. L'univers concentrationnaire
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0100 | RG Number: RG-04.001.02.01
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Conference internationale du 26 au 28 Octobre Washington sur la liberation des camps de concentration Nazis par les Arme Allie et Franaise
…Germany. Gestapo…
82. Oral history interview with Berko Kolodner
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.243.0019
Date:
interview: 1983 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germany and then Stutthof, where he worked on roofs; being in Buchenwald for two weeks, where he felt like he was dying but people gave him a little more…
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 … Stuthoff you were on a ship with a lot of people? 2:31:7 A: Then they put us on small boats, sloyzen(?) as they call this in Germany. Finally we came to…
83. Leonard Lauder collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.146
Date:
1890-1994
…The Leonard Lauder collection consists of materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during…
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 … materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during the Nazi era, that Lauder acquired from private…
84. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
85. Oral history interview with Eva Burns
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.4 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0004
Date:
interview: 1980 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Weapons industry--Germany.…
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 …, but nobody wanted to believe it: what’s happening in Germany is going to spread, or Hitler is going to spread and occupy so many countries. JF: What…
86. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to England, where she met her future Husband Erich Fanta. In 1952, the couple…
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 … was liberated, before serving as a secretary and interpreter for the same detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to…
87. Oral history interview with Eva Anderman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.2 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0002
Date:
interview: 1986 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… near Hamburg, Germany; staying with her brothers for some time; her family’s move to Stuttgart then Bremerhaven, from where they all sailed to New York…
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 … to power in 1933 in Germany. A: Before it didn’t happen to us but it did happen to some other people. They were breaking into the store demolishing…
88. Oral history interview with Tana Basa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.5 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0005
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tana Basa (née Hecht), born April 18, 1940 in Berlin, Germany, shows pictures of her family from before the war. She discusses her father’s role as a…
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 … what was your date of birth and your place of birth. I was born April 18, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. OK. And are you married? I am. And how many children…
89. 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…
90. Oral history interview with Hilda Prooth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.39 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0039
Date:
interview: 1984 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taught at the university; crossing into Germany in 1947; her husband working as an interpreter between the Jews and the Americans in Munich, Germany…
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 … an Englishman. It was not until during the war, when he was teaching in Germany, that he realized he had Russian birth. And consequently, the family…
91. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.35
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Terezín
…Jews--Germany.…
92. Ansbacher family papers
2015.534.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.534.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-1990
…Sigrid Ansbacher (later Jean Strauss, b. 1928) was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany to Selma Schlossberger (1897-?) and Ludwig Ansbacher (1888-1950) and…
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 … Accession number: 2015.534.2 Creator: Ansbacher (Family : Dinkelsbühl, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United…
93. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0335 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his liberation in Theresienstadt by Soviet forces in 1945; going to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1945 and getting a job as…
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 … going to Germany so they chase you back. You know, just always tell them the opposite. And we had the nightman night, because we finally got on a train in…
94. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
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 … Settlement) – Volunteer Corps Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jews – Austria – History – 20th century. Jewish refugees – Germany. Jewish refugees…
95. 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
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
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 … narratives. Political prisoners--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. Women psychologists. Prague (Czech Republic…
96. Oral history interview with Janet Applefield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.2 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Reparations for historical injustices--Germany--History.…
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 … accuracy. But that part of Poland was, in fact, invaded by Russia? It wasn't invaded by Germany, right? At that-- when we were first there, but while we were…
97. Oral history interview with Gertrude Koppel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1219 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1219
Date:
interview: 1989 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gertrude Koppel discusses her childhood in Czechoslovakia; her first marriage; the occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 by Nazi Germany; the…
98. Oral history interview with Henry Marx
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.740 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0740
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Marx, born in 1925 in Hagen, Germany, discusses Kristallnacht; his deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942; volunteering to…
99. Frank Liebermann family papers
2000.103 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2000.103
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1997
…Frank Liebermann (1929-2022) was born in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to ear, nose, and throat surgeon Hans Liebermann (1900-1979) and his…
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 … further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, February 2013 Biographical note Frank Liebermann was born in Gleiwitz, Germany (now…
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100. Oral history interview with Luba Elbaum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0022
Date:
interview: 1982 January 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Aschersleben, Germany to work; being forced on a six-week death march to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia; being liberated on May 8, 1945; immigrating to the…