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1. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
2. Oral history interview with Caroline Blumenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.175 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0175
Date:
interview: 1981 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Soviet liberation of Theresienstadt in May 1945; continuing to work in the bakery for about five months; emaciated survivors of concentration camps…
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 … stores were burned and Jews were put into concentration camps for weeks. In 1939 Caroline remarried a decorated WWI veteran. She describes the…
3. Oral history interview with Ann Weinstock
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.589 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0589
Date:
interview: 1990 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… executions after Theresienstadt had been liberated, and describes the camp's liberation by the Russian Army and the assistance of the Red Cross. Ms. Weinstock…
4. Oral history interview with Ann Weinstock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.654 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0654
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
interview: 1990 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… executions after Theresienstadt had been liberated, and describes the camp's liberation by the Russian Army and the assistance of the Red Cross. Ms. Weinstock…
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 … put him in concentration camp unless they can find place to send him out of Germany. So my uncle and my mother went back there and they bought my…
5. Oral history interview with Henry Oertelt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.8 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0008
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Oertelt, born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses the rise of the concentration camps, including Theresienstadt and Auschwitz; Hitler’s rise…
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 … concentration camp was built. It was not an extermination camp. The idea of exterminating came later. It was Dachau. It was meant to be a heavy special prison, of…
6. Oral history interview with Ruth Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.819 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0819
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… neighbors; her grandmother committing suicide; being sent with her parents to Theresienstadt; liberation of Theresienstadt; art in the camp; and immigrating…
7. Oral history interview with Werner G. Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.920 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0920
Date:
interview: 1998 July 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the forced relocation of his brother to a hospital; his brother's death; his and his parents' deportation to Theresienstadt; his experiences at the camp…
8. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …. I came through the, one of the organizations, since I'd been in a concentration camp, I didn't have to go and get my own papers. They supplied it. And…
9. Oral history interview with Hella Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1286 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1286
Date:
interview: 1991 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… until the camp's liberation by Russians in May 1945; the reunion of her family in Holland; and her family’s immigration to the United States.…
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 … together in Rotterdam and we went to the concentration camp Westibork. DO YOU REMEMBER ANY DETAILS OF THE TRANSPORT ITSELF HOW DID YOU TRAVEL FROM GERMANY TO…
10. Oral history interview with Gerald Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.27 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0027
Date:
interview: 1985 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was deported to Theresienstadt; his work in the camp; working at Wulkow concentration camp in the forest; prayer and religion in the camp; being…
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 … a good experience with concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps, or whatever. And they gradually built up the food supply. Of course, we all of a…
11. Margalit Bar-On collection
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0200
Date:
inclusive: 1973-1997
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
12. Oral history interview with Inge Auerbacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.2 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0002
Date:
interview: 1992 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the benefit of the Red Cross Commission and for a propaganda film; her liberation on May 8, 1945; arriving in the United States in 1946 aboard the…
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 … what concentration camp food was like and so a potato became the mainstay or an extra portion of soup, watery soup that we got. Of course in the morning…
13. 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…
14. Oral history interview with Edith Hartog Mayer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.364.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … Domingo. But these were false papers, but they let them out of the concentration camps. So there was a lot of traveling my mother had to do to get these…
15. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
…), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his attempts to rebuild his life in Vienna; and his…
16. 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
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … concentration camp. Q: When? A: One of the first ones. I think it was – Q: When did he go? A: November 10, 1938. He got arrested. He went to Dachau and we…
17. Oral history interview with Rudolph Herz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.17 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0017
Date:
interview: 1991 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. This is a verbatim…
18. Oral history interview with Ernest Pollak and Ilse Pollak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.56 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0056
Date:
interview: 1987 January 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; losing many of her non-Jewish friends; her brother’s imprisonment in a camp near Cologne and his early release; the destruction of the synagogue in…
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 … extremely bad experience and it was the beginning of the end but it didn't compare with the concentration camps. 02:00:50 Interviewer: Do you recall any…
19. Oral history interview with Gerda Kroitzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.330 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0330
Date:
interview: 1998 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … years, Jews had to live in “Jewish houses,” a kind of concentration camp within the city where they were very crowded and normal life impossible. 1:06:20…
20. Oral history interview with Lotte Salus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … camps we didn't. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word generated with 3…