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1. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.182 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0182
Date:
interview: 1994 March-1994 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…A Holocaust survivor, born in 1925 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses family; pre-war life; war experiences in Auschwitz…
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 … thinking that he'll be able to walk again. And unfortunately, all of this caused us never to get out of Germany in time. Because my father was too sick. In…
2. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
3. 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
…Gisela Zamora, born in 1928 in Battenberg, Germany, discusses her family and childhood; the intense antisemitism in Battenberg after Hitler's rise to…
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 … -- my maiden name was Eckstain, in Battenberg unda Aida in Germany. Q: And tell me a little bit about Battenberg, and your family. A: My mother’s family…
4. Oral history interview with Berek Obuchowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.29 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0029
Date:
interview: 1986 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … people's windows, being boarded up, as if it was going to happen again, like it happened in Nazi Germany. And that's what really frightened me. And things…
5. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her…
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 … Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 73 SUMMARY Lory Cahn1, nee Grünberger, was born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany into a religious home. Her father was a…
6. Oral history interview with Frank Hyde
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.89.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0706
Date:
interview: 2013 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Nations, which was 864 00:39:07,390 --> 00:39:12,210 the forerunner of the United Nations, they told Germany, 865 00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:14,370 not Hitler…
7. Oral history interview with Henry Dluznowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.41 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0041
Date:
interview: 1994 October 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … from the people. And put them in a storage room, you know. They shipped this to Germany, the good clothes. So I was working in a warehouse from clothing…
8. Oral history interview with Meyer Dragon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.12 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … the camp, there was a hospital with medicine. But 00:43 Mayer didn't stay there long. He was sent to a DP camp in Germany called Landsburg. He stayed in…
9. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
10. Oral history interview with Aron Zylberszac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.44 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0044
Date:
interview: 1985 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … with the Jews and to make more room for themselves and to take over the Jewish businesses in the same way as they did in Germany, I should think. And…
11. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
12. Oral history interview with Joseph Ronec
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.94 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0094
Date:
interview: 1996 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… slave laborer for I.G. Farben; going to Buchenwald in transit from January 28 to February 1945; being sent to various camps in Germany between February…
13. Oral history interview with Yoel Shtrol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.355 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0355
Date:
interview: 1999 November 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Germany and Hungary to search for relatives, but finding none; returning to his village and supporting himself by begging; going to Dej, where his…
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 … went to Germany and Hungary to search for relatives, but found none. He returned to his village and supported himself by begging. When he went to Dej…
14. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
…Lore Anthes (b. 1934, later Schwarz) was born in Sprendlingen, Germany, to an Evangelical couple, Georg (1902-?) and Elizabeth Schmidt (1904…
15. Oral history interview with Abraham Pasternak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.5 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 August 13
publication/distribution: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Schlieben (a satellite of Buchenwald), and in Zeitz, Germany.…
16. Oral history interview with Abraham Pasternak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.24 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0024
Date:
interview: 1982 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to shave off their beards; being sent to Auschwitz and life there; being sent to Schlieben and his work there; his work in Zeitz, Germany (Tröglitz…
17. Oral history interview with Ernest Kolben
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0007
Date:
interview: 1994 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … Vienna. He did not get reparations from Germany but received about $300 to $400 from Austria which he gave to his father-in-law. The war affected him in…
18. Oral history interview with Peter Engelman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.14 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0014
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
19. L'univers concentrationnaire
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0100 | RG Number: RG-04.001.02.01
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Conference internationale du 26 au 28 Octobre Washington sur la liberation des camps de concentration Nazis par les Arme Allie et Franaise
…Germany. Gestapo…
20. Oral history interview with Arie Zizamski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.182 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0182
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … applied by the Germans to escapees from the camp, and he was put on a transport to Buchenwald, Germany, probably the only Jewish prisoner who manged to…