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1. 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
… soldiers and other individual prisoners; and inspecting the ruins of a gas chamber destroyed by prisoners.…
2. Oral history interview with Lidia Dzikowska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.237 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0237
Date:
interview: 2005 June 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish woman; her registration in Koźminek as Polish; the sight of the Jews of Koźminek deported in gas vans; and several Jews who were in hiding during…
3. Oral history interview with Waclaw Długoborski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.126 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0126
Date:
interview: 1999 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Hungarian Jews walking to gas chambers, the selection of prisoners to be gassed, and staged boxing fights and soccer games.…
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 … ghetto during the uprising. His prison cell was very close to the wall of the ghetto. He saw Hungarian Jews walking to the gas chambers He saw about 200…
4. Oral history interview with Piotr Sadowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.26 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… singer in the camp; working on the construction of the first gas chamber; relations among prisoners in the camp; being sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, and…
5. Oral history interview with Lillian Saunders
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.7 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0006
Date:
interview: 1984 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… daily experiences with her sister in Auschwitz in 1944; barely missing selections and twice being saved from gas chambers; the cessation of her menstrual…
6. Oral history interview with Josef Binenshtok
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.14 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0014
Date:
interview: 1993 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and mass extermination camps; traveling to Blechhammer and working to build gas chambers in Blechhammer; traveling by train to Gross Rosen, Buchenwald…
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 … in camp. Describes the Judenalteste who helped. 3:42 Describes cruelty of SS. Worked in IG Farben factory, describes work. 3:46 Building of gas…
7. Oral history interview with Herr Sussman and Frau Sussman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.26 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0026
Date:
interview: 1975 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prisoners; fears of going to the showers because no one knew whether gas or water would come out; Frau Sussman’s transfer to Camp Kraków and working with…
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 … Side A 0:02 Some events at Auschwitz A selection was imminent. A Pole told him that a gas changer was demolished. Belgian doctor told him that Jews are…
8. Oral history interview with Rose Bour
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.14 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0013
Date:
interview: 1982 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… she was in the camp; her mother’s arrival at Auschwitz; witnessing her mother being marched to the gas chamber; her experiences in the barracks; being…
9. Oral history interview with Alexei Gorlinsky, Lieutenant Petrenko, and Colonel Kotlyar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.15 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the condition of the prisoners; seeing the evidence of the Nazis’ cruelty, such as zyklon gas cans, gas chambers, crematoriums, guns, piles of gold…
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 … spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. They saw Zyclon (ph) gas in cans and boxes and the gas…
10. Oral history interview with Sam Bankhalter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.5 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0005
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… where he participated in the construction of the camp; his recollections of various aspects at Auschwitz including the gas chambers, the crematoria, and…
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 … building stuff and all this kind of thing. And the selections then were where the gas chambers are, were they operating at that time? AT that time, there…
11. Oral history interview with Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.415.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0075
Date:
interview: 1990 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… enough to work; her assignment to carry rocks between two places; being sent to the gas chambers during a selection but getting rescued just before she…
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 … wrong line. My mother went into another line. I found out several hours later that the line she went in went directly to the gas chambers. I'm sorry. 01…
12. Oral history interview with Henry Kanner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.11 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0011
Date:
interview: 1995 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Kanner discusses being in Auschwitz working in the laundry when he was 15 or 16 years old; the death of his family members in the Belzec gas…
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 … the gate, beaten brutally. And eh the following day they were taken to the gas chambers and killed. Just about a few days later we began to hear distant…
13. Oral history interview with Cecilie Klein-Pollack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.18 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her and her family's experiences upon arrival at Auschwitz, encountering Josef Mengele, and the death of her mother and young nephew in the gas chambers…
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 … you were deteriorated, they would make selections and take you to the gas chambers. And, realizing this, I started to try, to eat everything that I…
14. Oral history interview with Margaret Odze
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.32 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0032
Date:
interview: 1990 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… a red scarf commando to sort out the possessions of those sent to the gas chambers in 1943; her new supervisor falling in love with a Jewish girl and…
15. Oral history interview with Eva Cigler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0015
Date:
interview: 1982 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sorting clothes; the smells of Birkenau; attempted escapes from the camp; working in the area next to the gas chambers; never warning the people entering…
16. Oral history interview with Lou Dunst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.135 | RG Number: RG-50.544.0001
Date:
interview: 2001 May
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Mengele; never seeing his mother again after the selection; his father dying in the gas chambers; staying with his brother and being placed into a barrack…
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 … put into a gas chamber. They thought they were about to die but survived the experience and were sent to Ebensee to “disappear.” They lived under…
17. Oral history interview with Philip Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.37 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0037
Date:
interview: 1992 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; life in the camp; contracting typhus; walking from Auschwitz to Birkenau; living conditions in Birkenau; mass killings in Birkenau; building the gas…
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 ….org for further information about this collection 8 The trucks were loaded at the Auschwitz railroad camp and traveled the two miles to the gas chamber…
18. Oral history interview with Linda Breder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.665 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0665
Date:
interview: 1990 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kanada; stealing clothes and food; the increasingly terrible conditions in Auschwitz; learning that her family had perished in the gas chambers; the death…
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 … ALREADY BUILT 18 Yes but only one. It was only for people 19 who died and they clidn gas. It was nc gassing there 20 at this tim. 21 SO EVENTUALLY YOU FOUND…
19. Oral history interview with Linda Breder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.258 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0258
Date:
interview: 1991 June 26
interview: 1994 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the gas chambers; the death march in January 1945 to Ravensbrück; escaping and hiding in a barn; her liberation by the Soviet Army; her experiences…
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 … people were transported into Auschwitz, the conditions got worse and worse. Eventually there was a selection in which most people were sent to the gas…
20. Oral history interview with Helen Spitzer Tichauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.345 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0462
Date:
interview: 2000 September 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on prisoner uniforms; the selections of women to go to the gas chambers; becoming ill with typhus but recuperating from her illness with the help of…
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 … [indecipherable] Q: Right. And you think they knew? A: They knew. Q: They knew? A: They knew. They didn’t know about the gas chambers. They didn’t know about the…