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1. 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…
2. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
3. Oral history interview with Hans J. Arons
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.658 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0658
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Arons discusses his youth and young adulthood in Hannover, Germany; his education; the antisemitism he experienced before the war; the…
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 …, Germany. In what year? September 1, 1914. 1914. And tell me, what did your father do? My father, he was a lawyer-- attorney or a lawyer in Germany. And how…
4. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
5. Oral history interview with Walter Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.816 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0816
Date:
interview: 1990 May 15
interview: 1990 June 14
interview: 1990 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Frank was born Walter Fackenheim in May 1920 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was a physician and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Frank was…
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 … West Germany. It's near Frankfurt. My father was a physician, what was then called a [GERMAN]. Today, it'd be an internist, a family physician. And two…
6. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
7. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
8. Oral history interview with Hans Arons
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.391 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0391
Date:
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Arons discusses his youth and young adulthood in Hannover, Germany; his education; the antisemitism he experienced before the war; the…
9. Oral history interview with John Friedmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
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.…
10. Oral history interview with Walter Schnell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0323 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0206
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Schnell, born on April 16, 1904 in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland), describes his family and childhood; going to study crystal and…
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 … Schnell. And I was born on April 16, 1904. Q: OK. Where? A: In Strehlen. This is Silesia...is the province of Silesia in Germany. Q: Thank you. A: You…
11. Oral history interview with Rose Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.336 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0336
Date:
interview: 1998 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rose Lesser describes her childhood in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland); her memories of moving to an all-Jewish school in 1933; her memories of…
12. Oral history interview with Eva Gottheiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.691 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0691
Date:
interview: 1993 March 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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 … and when were you born? I was born in a town called Breslau, B-R-E-S-L-A-U, which was in the province of, in Germany, it would be Silesia. In English, I…
13. Oral history interview with Guenter Gruschka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.767 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0767
Date:
interview: 2003 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Guenter Gruschka discusses his childhood in Ohlau, Germany (now Oława, Poland); his memories of Kristallnacht, when his family's store was destroyed…
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 … born in Breslau, Germany on July 30, 1934. And what was your father's name? My father's name was Leopold Gruschka. And mother's name? Erna Gruschka. And…
14. Simon M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1950) interviewed by Larry Steinfeld and Flora Waxberg,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1950
Author/Creator:
M., Simon, 1905-
Published:
Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Germany.…