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1. Oral history interview with Berek Obuchowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.29 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0029
Date:
interview: 1986 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … people's windows, being boarded up, as if it was going to happen again, like it happened in Nazi Germany. And that's what really frightened me. And things…
2. Oral history interview with Gertrude Löwinger Gleiss Jonas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.20 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0019
Date:
interview: 1977 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
3. Oral history interview with Kurt Neubauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.30 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; leaving Czechoslovakia illegally after the war; living in displaced persons game in the US zone of Germany; being sponsored by Ernest Morgensten to…
4. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
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.…
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 … where they were...in Kovno was that a point where they stop and they clean them up before send to Germany. And the people, the Jewish peopled them…
5. Oral history interview with Karel Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.26 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0026
Date:
interview: 1984 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family members and being unsuccessful in his search; moving to a displaced persons camp in Germany, where he remained until 1949; being sponsored for…
6. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
7. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her…
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 … Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 73 SUMMARY Lory Cahn1, nee Grünberger, was born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany into a religious home. Her father was a…
8. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Germany. In June of 1944 the train pulled up. And we wound up in a very famous camp of…
9. Oral history interview with Saul Schilbkraut
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1595 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1595
Date:
interview: 1981 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
10. Oral history interview with Moshe Nurtman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.28 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0028
Date:
interview: 1986 February 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s block; volunteering to clear bomb debris in Weimar, Germany; being in Theresienstadt in May 1945; the death of prisoners on the journey to the camp…
11. 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
…East Prussia (Germany)…
12. Oral history interview with Peter Lom
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.32 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0032
Date:
interview: 1982 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
13. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
14. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
15. Oral history interview with Ernst Weihs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0318 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0248
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
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.…
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 … everything. And he wanted me not to go in a office...work in an office. Go out and be in the outside, in nature. So one day they went on vacation to Germany…
16. Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.484 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0484
Date:
interview: 1990 June 14
interview: 1990 September 13
interview: 1990 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stepmother to live in an orphanage in 1933; leaving the orphanage after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1939; being deported to…
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 … they had 12 to drive him all over to Lidice to bury because they burned 13 to ashes the town. The children they took to Germany. The 14 man they killed…
17. Oral history interview with Lisbeth Hurst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.4 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0004
Date:
interview: 1989 May 06
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.…
18. Oral history interview with Aron Zylberszac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.44 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0044
Date:
interview: 1985 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … with the Jews and to make more room for themselves and to take over the Jewish businesses in the same way as they did in Germany, I should think. And…
19. Oral history interview with Dr. Wilhelm ("Willy") Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.17 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0016
Date:
interview: 1977 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
20. Eva Fisher collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-10.182
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1978
…Eva Fisher (née Cohen) was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. After Kristallnacht, she and her family moved into the Jüdisches…
21. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
22. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
23. Oral history interview with Abraham Pasternak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.5 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
publication/distribution: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Schlieben (a satellite of Buchenwald), and in Zeitz, Germany.…
24. Oral history interview with Premysl Josef Dobias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.7 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0007
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the attitude of Czechoslovakian fascists; the relations with Jews; Francophile attitudes; relations with neighboring countries; visiting Berlin, Germany…
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 … certain political factors started to work on the idea that the Sudeten Germans, called at that time, should belong to Germany-- not only emigrating to…
25. 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…
26. Gerhard Maschkowski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2005
…Gerhard Maschkowski was born on May 19, 1925 in Elbing, Germany, (now Elbląg, Poland) to Jewish parents, Arthur and Herta Imber Maschkowski. Arthur…
27. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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28. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann papers
1999.A.0040 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0040
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1990
…, and served in World War II in the Military Intelligence Division in Germany. He married Louise (Lisl) Schwarzenberger (1907-2000), born in Maßbach to…
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 … Leipzig and Maßbach, Charlotte Süssmann’s deportation to Theresienstadt, and Emanuel Suessmann’s service in the Military Intelligence Division in Germany…
29. 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…
30. Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld memoirs
Document | Accession Number: 1987.031 | RG Number: RG-02.010.01
Date:
1985
…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
31. Böhm and Hanau families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2012
undated: 
…Liselotte Böhm (1923-2019) was born on October 21, 1923 in Kaiserslautern, Germany to Alfred Böhm (1896-1956) and Frieda Böhm (née Hanau, 1897-1991…
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 … documents and photographs of the Böhm family of Kaiserslautern, Germany, including Liselotte Böhm and her parents Alfred Böhm and Frieda Böhm (née Hanau…
32. Oral history interview with Henry Oertelt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.8 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0008
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Oertelt, born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses the rise of the concentration camps, including Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; Hitler’s rise…
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 … advertised, are part of a course called Workshop on the Holocaust, which deals with the events that took place in Germany and Europe generally between 1933 and…
33. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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34. Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0086 | RG Number: RG-04.025.01
Date:
1943-1991
…Betty Katz was the director of the Institute for Jewish Blinds in Berlin-Steglitz, Germany, before the Holocaust. She was deported to the Terezín…
35. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…Siegfried Strauss (later Fred Strauss, 1898-1956) was born in Marburg, Germany to Hermann (1856-1934) and Johanna (née Wertheim, 1859-1942) Strauss…
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 …: 2016.565.1 Creator: Strauss family (Marburg :Germany) Extent: 1.33 linear feet (2 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 book enclosures, 2 oversize folders…
36. Oral history interview with Ann Weinstock
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.589 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0589
Date:
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…
37. 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…
38. Oral history interview with Hilde Sandelowsky and Otto Sandelowsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.95.1 | RG Number: RG-90.204.0001
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
39. 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…
40. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
41. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
42. 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…
43. Oral history interview with Ina Rothschild and Elsa Jaeckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.120 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0120
Date:
interview: 1981 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ina Rothschild describes her life, education, and work in Germany after World War I; life through Hitler’s rise to power; experiencing changes in…
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 … 1 v. (unpaged) SUMMARY Ina Rothschild talks about her life, education and work in Germany after World War I. Both women lived through Hitler’s rise to…
44. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.18
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…
45. 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…
46. Margret Hantman papers
2018.70.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.70.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2012
…Margret (Miriam) Hantman (née Simon) (b. 1926) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Willy Simon (1896-1944) and Ella Anita Stahl Simon (1901-1944). She…
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 … describing her Holocaust-era experiences in Germany and concentration camps, photographs of theatrical performances at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, a…
47. William G. Frank papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-10.080
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1985
…Mr. Frank collected the original materials from various sources in Germany and Czechoslovakia before and after World War II. Copies of the materials…
48. 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…
49. 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…
50. 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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