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1. Oral commentary of Russell Bryant and Erich Wolf during their return visit to Europe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.198.1 | RG Number: RG-50.267.0001
Date:
Recorded: 1965 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hungarian underground, was captured by the Gestapo in Budapest in 1944, was held prisoner in Auschwitz, Dachau, and Mühldorf concentration camps, was…
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 … Budapest in 1944; held prisoner in Auschwitz, Dachau, and Muldorf Concentration Camps (#108708); liberated at the train station in Tutzing, Germany, May 1…
2. First edition of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis given to a Dutch couple
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.2 a-b
Date:
publication: 1947
Title:
Het Achterhuis
Subtitle:
dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944
diary letters from 12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944
Alternate Title:
The Secret Annex
… in December 1944 at Neuengamme concentration camp. Peter van Pels died in the Mauthausen subcamp, Melk, in May 1945, only a few days after liberation…
3. Oral history interview with Ruth Krautwirth Meyerowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.352.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0161
Date:
interview: 1990 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … camp, this became a – but it became a concentration camp really because the SS officers went. Some of them came from Auschwitz with us and some were…
4. Oral history interview with Tzvi Tatarko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.155 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0155
Date:
interview: 1993 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … camp to a concentration camp. Describes his work and mistreatment by Polish guards. 2.16 Story of 3 people who dug an underground tunnel and lived there…
5. Oral history interview with Anna Sultanik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.49 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0049
Date:
interview: 1996 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation by the British on April 15, 1945; the immediate tragic aftermath of liberation from the overfeeding of prisoners; her two-year stay in a displaced…
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 … people that they will help us at all, because there were two German officers, and who knows how many thousands of us from concentration camp. I was passing…
6. Oral history interview with Max Liebster
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.34 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0034
Date:
interview: 1991 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … terrible treatment. Two years later, Max was sent to Neuengamme concentration camp where 100 of Jehovah’s Witnesses were imprisoned. A group of 30 Jews…
7. Oral history interview with Estelle Klipp
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0346
Date:
interview: 1995 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … only a few days. And everything seems like a very, very bad dream. And they were telling us that going out of Auschwitz to a working camp is a rather…
8. Oral history interview with Gisela Zamora
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.178 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0476
Date:
interview: 2003 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … talked about labor camps for the Reich. Q: And you did not know your father was going to Auschwitz? A: No, no. As a matter of fact, they duped us when one…
9. Oral history interview with Hella Rosenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.380 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0380
Date:
interview: 2000 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons camp; emigration to Israel in 1949; the births of her three daughters; the importance of her friends' support to her survival; testifying at…
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 … in the Communist underground, was one of the enforcers. The Poles smuggled weapons through tunnels. When word of the death camps reached the ghetto…
10. Ansbacher family papers
2015.534.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.534.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-1990
… expropriation of their property, their internment in concentration camps during the Holocaust, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to…
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 … military service, the German expropriation of their property, their internment in concentration camps during the Holocaust, their immigration to the United…
11. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … shipped out to Germany, to concentration camps. At that time we were very well aware of concentration camps and concentration contrary to what some people…
12. Oral history interview with Paula S. Biren
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.459 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0500
Date:
interview: 2005 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … Switzerland, in camp. So that was this part of the family. Now shortly before ’39, people were running away on foot to Russia as a way to escape Hitler. Many…
13. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.7 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0007
Date:
interview: 1985 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …, who was with her in the Ghetto, died in Buchenwald, of starvation. He was moved there from another camp on the eve of the Russian liberation of the…
14. Oral history interview with Irene Sulzman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.31 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0031
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … (ph) organized an industry to make uniforms for the soldiers. 29:00 There were deportations. They hadn't heard of concentration camps yet. Irene…
15. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.8 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liquidation of the ghetto; her younger brother being deported to Buchenwald; the Germans posting signs that they were only taking the young people to work camps…
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 … to suffer the way they made the Jewish people suffer. 00:24:24 Liberation came around Passover. One day, the gates of the camp were opened and the…
16. Oral history interview with Herbert Oppenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.53 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0053
Date:
interview: 1983 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … building and just grab whoever was there. 00:23:00 At that time people were not aware of concentration camps. Everyone thought that they would be safe but…
17. Oral history interview with Paula Ruthling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0232 | RG Number: RG-50.524.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 1973
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. In early 1945 (?) she was brought first to Bergen-Belsen, where she was scared to death because they had…
18. Oral history interview with Ruth Meyerowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0186 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0022
Date:
interview: 1998 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … whatever and instead of a slave labor camp, they were now sent to Auschwitz. But when we arrived, they were separated from us and we were just the 37 of us…
19. Oral history interview with Tamar Berger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.11 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0011
Date:
interview: 1992 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … were leaving the camp and were then taken to Bergen-Belsen. Describes conditions there. 4.35 Describes liberation by British April 1945. Thousands of…
20. Oral history interview with Helen Feig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.68 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0068
Date:
interview: 1984 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews document the experiences of 136 Holocaust survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and former concentration camp liberators from the Cleveland…
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 … used to call him the commander fuhrer. That was the name of it in German. And then was the ladies. The ladies-- we had no men in that camp. There were…