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1. Oral history interview with Tamar Goldshmidt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.348 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0348
Date:
interview: 1998 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
2. Oral history interview with Machislav Gurvich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.311 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0311
Date:
interview: 1996 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
3. Oral history interview with Peter Lang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.376 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0376
Date:
interview: 2000 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … go to Prague where he lived in a Jewish orphanage. In March 1939, when the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, Peter's parents were evicted from their home…
4. Oral history interview with Nava Shan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.360 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0360
Date:
interview: 1999 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
5. Oral history interview with Michal Efrat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.283 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0283
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … school and wanted to become a dancer. 1:14 Her feelings about being Jewish. Her brother, who was four years older, introduced her to the Zionist movement…
6. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Personal narratives.…
7. Helga Burch collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0166 | RG Number: RG-10.118
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
8. Abraham Zemach papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-10.092
Date:
1945-1994
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…
9. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …) Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) – Personal narratives. Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. World War, 1939‐1945 – Deportations from Germany. Holocaust…
10. Oral history interview with Walter Taus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.101 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0101
Date:
interview: 2012 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
11. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
12. Oral history interview with Eliezer Shvimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.248 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0248
Date:
interview: 1995 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … and Czech school, 8 weddings. 2.15 In 1939, when the Germans went into Czechoslovakia, the Carpats were given to Hungary. Following this the Czechs left…
13. Oral history interview with Slaviboj Kuchta
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.33 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0033
Date:
interview: 2015 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
14. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0555
Date:
interview: 2016 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …. There was a speaker who kept saying anti-Jewish things: the Jews had lost World War I, the Jews had the black market, the Jews; and he kept going on. 90…
15. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0433
Date:
interview: 2013 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … rebuild the SS general headquarters destroyed by the allies. By 1945 the red Army reached Theresienstadt and Bob was liberated on May 5, 1945. Today Bob and…
16. Oral history interview with Jaroslav Petr
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.11 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0011
Date:
interview: 2012 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
17. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0740
Date:
interview: 2008 January 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
18. Oral history interview with William Himmelfarb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.55 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0055
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … started the schooling at the age of seven which was 1935. I went to school until the age of, let's see, 1939 the war broke out, five years. Five years of…
19. Oral history interview with Benjamin Hildesheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0119 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0023
Date:
interview: 1996 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … brothers and two sisters. They lived in the center of the town until 1939 when war broke out. They lived in a rented home on Calesta (?) Street, Number 2. 05…
20. 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
…World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Personal narratives.…
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 … Box Folder Title Morgenstern, Regina: 1 1 Correspondence, 1939 and undated 2 1 Diary, 1945 1 2 Identification papers, 1943-1949 Photographs: 1 3…
21. "Little Lily"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0005 | RG Number: RG-02.031
Date:
creation: circa 1981
Alternate Title:
Lily Zelenka biography
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
22. Oral history interview with Margret Hantman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.147.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0959
Date:
interview: 2018 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
23. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … a Jewish family arriving at the ghetto from Mukachevo, Ukraine in 1945, and bringing all the ingredients to make matzoh (which they baked in an…
24. Oral history interview with Jeshaye Rosenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.19 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0019
Date:
interview: 2015 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
25. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … 01:94 Maj. Gen. Golinsky and his troops liberated Krakow (ph) and Aushwitz in 1945. The Russian army knew that Hitler had been committing atrocities in…
26. Oral history interview with Israel Granatshtein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.190 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0190
Date:
interview: 1994 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 ….08 Sept.1, 1939, beginning of war, his grandfather took him and his mother to Lublin. Describes bombardments. 1.12 When German troops arrived they went back…
27. Oral history interview with Yaakov Freimark
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.42 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.…
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 …. Describes the barracks, the hard labor and the cruelty of the guards. Talks about the bombardments by Americans in Februay, March 1945. Describes the death…
28. Oral history interview with Tat'ána Bubníková
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.14 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0014
Date:
interview: 2014 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
29. Oral history interview with Va'clav Kubík
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.26 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0026
Date:
interview: 2014 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
30. Margalit Bar-On collection
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0200
Date:
inclusive: 1973-1997
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
31. Oral history interview with Frank Salz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.380.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0234
Date:
interview: 2014 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
32. Oral history interview with Vlasta Ryáčková
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.15 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0015
Date:
interview: 2014 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
33. Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.485 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0485
Date:
interview: 1990 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
34. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0466
Date:
interview: 2014 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …, of course, the following September Germany invaded Poland and World War II officially began in September 1939. You and your mother and your stepfather…
35. Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.227 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0227
Date:
interview: 1995 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … 1939, he went to Prague and worked as Edelstein’s deputy in the Eretz, Israel office, dealing with visas, Youth Aliya, Hachshara, Jewish school, etc. He…
36. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … Theresienstadt; the “clean-up” of Theresienstadt done for the benefit of the Red Cross Commission and for a propaganda film; her liberation on May 8, 1945…
37. Oral history interview with Inge Berger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.377.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1042
Date:
interview: 2019 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
38. Oral history interview with Jan Bokus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.117 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0117
Date:
interview: 1999 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.…
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 …, 1921 in Warsaw. He talks about the beginning of the war in Warsaw; in the first two years of the war he attended a vocational school and learned to be a…
39. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0133
Date:
interview: 2004 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
40. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … extra food. He returned to Auschwitz and was taken with others to Mariensberg (Marienbad) in April 1945. There they escaped to the forest, but were…
41. Oral history interview with Alice Bogart
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.8 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … in Terezin in March 1943; her forced labor at Terezin during the rest of the war; being sick with typhoid when Russian troops liberated the camp 1945…
42. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … 1939. 1597 01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:56,020 That's correct. 1598 01:10:56,020 --> 01:10:59,290 And then the war starts September '39. 1599 01:10:59…
43. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0651
Date:
interview: 2018 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … in Wulkow, Germany, where he worked to rebuild the SS general headquarters destroyed by the Allies. By 1945, the Soviet Army reached Thereseinstadt and…
44. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0595
Date:
interview: 2017 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … Ciardelli: Invasion of Poland. Bob Behr: The war broke out. The Germans marched into Poland in September of 1939. Why they did this and how they did this, I…
45. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
46. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0167 | RG Number: RG-02.148
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
47. Oral history interview with Willi Groag
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.52 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0052
Date:
interview: 1993 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … Jewish Museum in Prague in 1945. 11.20 Underground in Teresien. 11.23 His work in the ‘boys’ house. 11.34 Difficulties and pressures about his wife…
48. Oral history interview with Edit (Dita) Kraus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.81 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0081
Date:
interview: 1992 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … are a Jew” incident, Dita was transferred to a Check school. She was not well received by the teacher or children. 42.15 After the 4th grade, in 1939…
49. Oral history interview with Daruše Burdová
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.31 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0031
Date:
interview: 2014 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.…
50. Oral history interview with Helga Shékalová
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.43 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0043
Date:
interview: 2015 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…