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1. Oral history interview with Paul Monka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.42 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0042
Date:
interview: 1989 May 17-1989 June 09
interview: 1989 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Poland.…
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 … the primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. 13 00:01:00,450 --> 00:01:06,720 It was one of the oldest cities in Poland. 14 00…
2. Oral history interview with Mikhalina Warzołek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.93 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0093
Date:
interview: 1999 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
3. Oral history interview with Jan Pędziwiatr
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.250 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0250
Date:
interview: 2005 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
4. Oral history interview with Howard Waldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.885 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0885
Date:
interview: 1995 March 17
interview: 1995 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.…
5. Oral history interview with Lili Altschuler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.140 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0140
Date:
interview: 1981 March 10
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 … what it meant at the time. But that word, in the time in Poland after the war, became sort of a codeword. You know, if somebody met you--and some people…
6. Oral history interview with Kurt Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.12 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0012
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interview: 2012 July 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Czech.…
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 …. Information about access and usage rights can be found in the catalog record. Nepamatuji se, že by to dělalo nějaké problémy, oni se poznali v bance, kde otec…
7. Oral history interview with Barbara Makuch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.16 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0016
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interview: 1984 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … living when the war began? In that central Poland this time, because I finished agriculture school in the Wilno. And then I came in the war to Warsaw to I…
8. Oral history interview with Lesław Flis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.350 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0350
Date:
interview: 2018 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
9. Oral history interview with Mirjana Stojanović
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.2.71 | RG Number: RG-50.586.0071
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interview: 2008 September 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Yugoslav.…
10. Oral history interview with Hermine Schmidt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.87 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0087
Date:
interview: 1995 July 25
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 … young age; Soviet soldiers’ arrival at Stutthof after she had left via transport; the different types of prisoners and the conditions in Stutthof; gay…
11. Oral history interview with Alexander Avnon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.184 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0184
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interview: 1994 February 10
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Russian.…
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 … older sister who was at risk for TB and family moved to a health resort near Warsaw, Otwock, in 1936. Father worked in Warsaw. -- In June 1940, when the…
12. Oral history interview with Ron WG Jones
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.448.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0709
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interview: 2012 July 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … is over.” So I was a prisoner of war. [DL] So when you were captured where were you sent? [RJ] We taken up to Tripoli and we were put in empty little…
13. Oral history interview with Valentina Sukalo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.49 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0049
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interview: 2008 August 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Ukrainian.…
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 …. Information about access and usage rights can be found in the catalog record. Вопрос: Давайте вернемся к самому началу. Вы сами читали те объявления? Вы видели…
14. Oral history interview with Samuel Brand
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.18 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0018
Date:
interview: 2001 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
15. Oral history interview with Berta Wenzel and Gustav Wenzel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.69 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0069
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interview: 1990 May 25
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …, Poland). They became Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1923-24, had a daughter in 1923 and married in 1925.In 1933 Gustave Wenzel was working as a coal miner in…
16. Oral history interview with Sam Wolf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.137 | RG Number: RG-50.664.0001
Date:
interview: 2005 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
17. Oral history interview with Milan Malešević
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.2.75 | RG Number: RG-50.586.0075
Date:
interview: 2008 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Yugoslav.…
18. Oral history interview with Zwi Golombek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0067 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0097
Date:
interview: 1998 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … or hole in ground when people come, called Henyek Uncle comes at end of war - places him in kibbutzim in Poland and Germany October 6, 1948 - goes to…
19. Oral history interview with Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.251 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0251
Date:
interview: 2005 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
20. Oral history interview with Jan Bokus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.117 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0117
Date:
interview: 1999 October 08
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 …, 1921 in Warsaw. He talks about the beginning of the war in Warsaw; in the first two years of the war he attended a vocational school and learned to be a…
21. Oral history interview with Gloria Fredkove
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.2 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 June
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian.…
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 … siblings. They all died in concentration camps. After the war she tried to locate them but could not find them. My grandparents, my mother, brother and I…
22. Oral history interview with Aharon Carmi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.31 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0031
Date:
interview: 1991 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … German prisoner of war that is let go, 10 Jews would be able to join their relatives in E. Israel. Lists were made, with German attention to detail. This…
23. Oral history interview with Haim-Vidal Sephiha
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.444 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0521
Date:
interview: 2007 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Belgian.…
24. Oral history interview with Andrew Tibor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1465 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1465
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
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 … they put us into the camps -- this camps were originally Russian prison camp for they kept io the German kept in the Russian prison camps. And when the…
25. Oral history interview with Gunter Siemeister
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.12 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0012
Date:
interview: 1999 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … First World War who was badly wounded, one leg amputated at the thigh and you couldn’t say he was glad to be a soldier or exactly someone, let’s say…
26. Oral history interview with Marsha Segall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.43 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0043
Date:
interview: 1985 December
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Lithuanian.…
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 … September because war was declared, and Poland was attacked by the German army. Whilst you were growing up in Lithuania were you aware of any antisemitic…
27. 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
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.…
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 …-- the same, I think, as Poland is, and the same as Ukraine and Lithuania and these countries. I think wherever there is strong Catholic relationship, this…
28. Oral history interview with Meir Tyrangiel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.409.0004
Date:
interview: 1994 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
29. Oral history interview with Kosta Rastovac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.2.112 | RG Number: RG-50.586.0112
Date:
interview: 2010 January 24
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Yugoslav.…
30. Oral history interview with Uri Bas and Kobi Luria
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.503.29 | RG Number: RG-50.934.0028
Date:
interview: 2000 January 23
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Songs and music.…
31. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0171
Date:
interview: 1990 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian.…
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 … years I was learned to be baker. And that's 1939 the war started. Q: What was your first recollection of the German invasion of Poland? A: Yes, that was…
32. Oral history interview with Alexander Roslan and Amelia Roslan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.74 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0074
Date:
interview: 1988 June 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … of the family. 10:00 The family sold the farm and opened a small wholesale Jewish store in Bialystok. War broke out in a few years. 11:00 Russian…
33. Oral history interview with Stefan Wohl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0413 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0060
Date:
interview: 1997 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Hungarian.…
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 … Poland to be with your parents in Krakow. And then the next memory that you have? The next memory I have is the outbreak of the war. Who is, well, it…
34. Oral history interview with Józef Paczyński
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.168 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0168
Date:
interview: 2002 July 16
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
35. Oral history interview with Hans Braun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.3 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0003
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … men escaped and hid in a village which was defended by the SS. They were liberated by the Americans. Hans lived in Germany after the war and emigrated…
36. Oral history interview with Fred Booker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.177 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0177
Date:
interview: 1992 February 06
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
37. Oral history interview with Henry Konstam
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0054
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
38. Oral history interview with Hans Mehrle
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.42 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0042
Date:
interview: 2004 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
39. Oral history interview with Horst Schmidt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.81 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0081
Date:
interview: 1995 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
40. Oral history interview with Piotr Ferenc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.169 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0169
Date:
interview: 2002 July 17
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 …; the Jews were blackmailed and threatened by the Ukrainians after nightfall; he remembers that the Ukrainians frequently shot at the prisoners; he talks…
41. Oral history interview with Steven Galezewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0377
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.…
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 … and accounts of those who survived the prisoner-of-war camp, he apparently broke through the encirclement of Germans and buried the flag in a forest. Of…
42. Oral history interview with Sarah Colin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.5 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0005
Date:
interview: 1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.…
43. Oral history interview with Danuta Osikowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.94 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0094
Date:
interview: 1999 July 12
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … persecutions of Jews in the camp, and inhuman treatment of the prisoners. She recalls incidents of Poles hiding Jews in Szebnia as well. Besides that, she…
44. Oral history interview with Branislav Milenković
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.1.41 | RG Number: RG-50.585.0041
Date:
interview: 2008 March 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Yugoslav.…
45. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.…
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 … able to complete? Well, I remember I started school when I was four or five. And by the time I finished when the war broke out in 1939, I would say I was…
46. Oral history interview with Anton Šercer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.4.12 | RG Number: RG-50.592.0012
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interview: 2009 February 05
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.…
47. Oral history interview with Josef Niklasch and Margarette Niklasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.45 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0045
Date:
interview: 1990 May 26
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … service and sentenced to 8 years in Prison to be served after the war. Until then, he was to be held in a concentration camp. He was deported to Badermor…
48. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.369 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0066
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interview: 2000 December 14
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian.…
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 … sons, and in 1921, after the first World War, my mother decided to go Poland. I don’t know https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
49. Oral history interview with Jadwiga Zachczyńska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.185 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0185
Date:
interview: 2003 July 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Russia.…
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 … activities and focuses on the biggest pogrom. She also talks about her collaboration with Soviet partisans. She looks back on post-war events, mainly on the…
50. Oral history interview with Wolfdieter Skottke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.16 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0016
Date:
interview: 1999 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … 1945 at the end of the war promoted to captain. And became a prisoner of war in the spring of 1945, a prisoner of the Americans. And then from there…