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1. "Strangers in the Heartland"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0206 | RG Number: RG-02.142
Date:
creation: 1989 January
… from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the…
2. Oral history interview with Fred Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kolce, Poland), where there was a subcamp of Gross-Rosen (Riese camp); building roads; a Jewish Kapo who gave him advice on surviving the camp; suicides…
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 …, my mother’s name Helen, and my sister’s name is Gertrude. She by the way, is the only one who is alive today besides myself. She survived the war in…
3. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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 … internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
4. Oral history interview with Walter Reichmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.125 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0125
Date:
interview: 1991 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Canada barrack; the revolt and burning of Crematorium III; kapos; the Red Cross visit in 1943; the clinic in Auschwitz; surviving a death march from…
5. Oral history interview with Jack Wieder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.51 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0051
Date:
interview: 1984 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… that his brother, Hermann, and sisters, Julia and Toni, had also survived the war; being inducted into the Russian army; serving in the army for one year…
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 …. And when they opened up the doors from the boxcars, there was-- from the 5,000 people, 1,600 people survived. Everybody was just taken out and corpses…
6. Oral history interview with Alice Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.1 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0001
Date:
interview: 1986 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alice Adler, born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary, describes her experience as a Jew who was caught by the Germans, sent to Auschwitz and survived; her…
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 … was caught by the Germans, sent to Auschwitz and survived. Her family comprised of her father, who died when she was 18 years old, her mother and two…
7. Oral history interview with Herbert Finder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19
interview: 1987 March 19
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Antwerp via Stuttgart and France; their survival strategies and faith in God; going to the United States in December 1946; living in New York City, NY until…
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 … remained in Poland as far as you know? HF: No, they survived. They live in Israel now. NL: But they stayed in Poland. HF: Yeah, they stayed in Poland. NL: I…
8. Kürschner family photograph collection
2013.134.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2013.134.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1948
… and later in Sommerda. Both survived the death march and immigrated to Israel. Dita’s father, Lajos, died in Buchenwald on January 2, 1945.…
9. "Little Lily"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-02.031
Date:
creation: circa 1981
Alternate Title:
Lily Zelenka biography
… England. Lily and Carlo survived Theresienstadt and deportation to Auschwitz where Carlo perished. Lily was then transferred for forced labor in Hamburg and…
10. Elizabeth Kardos Langfelder Kux collection
2007.224 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 82
Document | Accession Number: 2007.224
Date:
inclusive: 1957-1984
… take them to a concentration camp. Her father died, but her mother lived and was sent to the ghetto where she survived the war. In September 1944…
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 … 1944 when soldiers came to take them to a concentration camp. Her father died, but her mother lived and was sent to the ghetto where she survived the…
11. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
…’s Rheinhold family also survived the war.…
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 …, Marcel and Albert. His stepmother’s Rheinhold family also survived the war. Dr. Naum Wortman (1914-1988) was born in Chełm, Poland to Izak Wortman and…
12. Used Collonil leather oil brought to the US by a German Jewish refugee
2004.485.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.485.46
Date:
emigration: 1937 December
… starvation. Her son, Karoly, survived in a safe house protected by the Swedish embassy and her husband, Joszi, returned to Budapest after serving with the…
13. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… all survived. Due to poor conditions and lack of food, Gisela left and traveled to Baia Mare where she met Zoltan Weisz.…
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 … 2,000 Jews until Budapest was liberated by the Russians in February 1945. After the war, she was reunited with her family who all survived. Due to…
14. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner
CM_1995.59.1_001 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.59.1
Date:
depiction: 1944 September 20-approximately 1950
…. Although Adolf’s brothers, Leo and Ignatz, died in the camps, Ignatz’s wife and daughter survived Auschwitz. Adolf and his family were able to return to…
15. Oral history interview with Herma Rappaport
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.45 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0045
Date:
interview: 1989 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …'t know too well. But he had cousins, and I know that none of them have survived. An uncle of mine did survive and managed to escape to Israel. He was the…
16. Oral history interview with Marianne Robitschek Rosner
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0312
Date:
interview: 1995 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, I had to make for it. I had to work for it, so it was a very hard life. A hard life, but we were -- we were still younger, so we survived. Q. Is there…
17. Oral history interview with Marianne Windholm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.521 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0503
Date:
interview: 2005 November 18
interview: 2005 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … mother. But to her little brother, I did feel like a mother, yeah. Q: Did you ever talk about sort of strategies about how you were trying to survive this…
18. Oral history interview with Lonia Mosak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0298 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0045
Date:
interview: 1999 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … skirt by a lady in the train, so he survived. So he crawled back, and he told us to pick up the bodies. So, when I saw that, in time my brother came in…
19. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … book chronicling her family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Merkur, Janet. Sunflowers: Erna Isaac’s story, Surviving the Holocaust. Sydney: Hot Rox…
20. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Zierer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1295 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1295
Date:
interview: 1986 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … thriving business but it helped me survive. And we all of us did the same thing but not all of us made candles. And the wick -- dont recall -- yes the wick…