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1. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… the Hongkew ghetto. John became a camp guard, and Hermann died of dysentery. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and…
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 …. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before…
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2. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… traveled to Lisbon, newspaper clippings, and Joseph Shadur’s memoir, A Drive to Survival.…
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 …, newspaper clippings, and Joseph Shadur’s memoir, A Drive to Survival. System of arrangement The Shadur family papers are arranged into six series: • Series 1…
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3. 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
… traveling through Europe with the Chicago symphony; living in the transit camp Neuengamme; how music helped save his life in the camp; surviving the bombing…
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 …Francis Akos discusses living in a transit camp, Neuengamme; how music helped save his life in the camp; surviving the bombing of the ship, Caparkone…
4. Oral history interview with Esther Marcus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1016 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1016
Date:
interview: 1996 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; and her aunt's imprisonment and survival in Ravensbrück; and her aunt's reunion with the family after the war.…
5. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Kurt…
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 … the Naumann family in Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt…
6. Oral history interview with Margot Pels
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.66 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0066
Date:
interview: 2010 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; how they waited for visas in Austria; attending school in Chile; how her husband, Manfred, survived Auschwitz; and how her husband never told his story…
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 … for a musical performance. He, Manfred, was born in Poland, his family perished in concentration camps, he survived 5 years as a young teenager in…
7. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
… sporting goods store in Berlin. During the war, the family moved to Belgium where Benno and Mila survived the Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred…
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 …, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Belgium. Languages: German, French, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
8. 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…
9. Oral history interview with Irene Shapiro
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.125 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0125
Date:
interview: 1992 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in May 1944, Auschwitz Birkenau; how she survived in the camps; her liberation; her immigration to the United States in 1946; and her work with…
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 …. I discussed this with the people who survived that. We all had the same http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
10. Oral history interview with Hanna Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.18 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the American occupied zone; getting passports to the United States and eventually settling there; surviving mostly because of her own initiative and…
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 … eventually settled in America. Her survival is largely a result of her own initiative and strength. On her own, she retrieved family photographs and effects…