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1. Bustling Jewish life in Berlin
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Film | Accession Number: 2014.534 | RG Number: RG-60.1771 | Film ID: 4119
Film Title:
Untitled #5 -- Robert Gessner -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1934
Duration:
00:01:57
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Bustling Jewish life in Berlin…
2. Oral history interview with Warner J. Bergh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.166 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0166
Date:
interview: 1999 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Warner J. Bergh, born on August 14, 1923 in the neighborhood Schöneberg in Berlin, Germany, discusses his early life in a Jewish section of Berlin…
3. Oral history interview with Arkady Sergeyevich Teif
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.5 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0005
Date:
interview: 1995 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Arkadiy Sergeyevich Teif, born 1928 in Smilovichi, Minsk Oblast, Soviet Union (Smilavichy, Belarus), recalls life in Smilovichi before the war; his…
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 … a boiler factory. Religious family. Poor. 2 older sisters, one of whom died before war. 4.14 Discusses life in Smilovich before the war. Nothing…
4. Oral history interview with Inge Booker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.178 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0178
Date:
interview: 1992 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; Kristallnacht; travelling by ship to Shanghai, China via Bremerhaven, Barcelona, Genoa, and the Suez Canal in July 1939; life in Hongkew; the difficult living…
5. Oral history interview with Marion Mostny
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.170 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0170
Date:
interview: 1998 November 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… left behind in Germany; her life in Chile; her and her husband's decision to immigrate to the United States in 1963; their life in San Francisco, CA; her…
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 … relationship because of all this. This is my life, my children. They now see and they have told me this, that they understand now certain things about me, a…
6. Oral history interview with Francis Akos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
….549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.…
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 …Francis Akos discusses living in a transit camp, Neuengamme; how music helped save his life in the camp; surviving the bombing of the ship, Caparkone…
7. Oral history interview with Werner Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.26 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Bergh discusses his early life in Berlin, Germany; the arrest of his father and his imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; leaving…
8. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…'s imprisonment at Terezin, Auschwitz, and Merzdorf. The later part of the testimony describes Gundel's return to life in Germany and her eventual emigration to the…
9. Oral history interview with Ursula Becher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her mother dying of infection in Shanghai; her cultural and religious life in Hongkou; and immigrating to Australia in 1949.…
10. Oral history interview with Jenny Brody
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.394.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0842
Date:
interview: 2015 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Helmut, and Alfred) and her younger sister, Romana; her mother, Bertha (née Cahn), and her non-Jewish stepfather, Josef Regen; life in Scheunenviertel; her…
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 … home (it took about half an hour.) That was the only place where she got any exposure to Jewishness. Jenny remembers that school life was not good as…
11. Oral history interview with Elka Farfel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.295 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0295
Date:
interview: 1996 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Jewish life in her town and the ten synagogues; hearing about Kristallnacht; the Soviet occupation in September 1939 and the…
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 … not allowed. The population was half Polish and half Jewish. 1:14 Describes activities in Hashomer Hatzair and Jewish life in town. 1:21 Describes large…
12. Oral history interview with Hennie Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.25 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0025
Date:
interview: 1981 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hennie Bergh (née Mattisson), born in 1906 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood; enjoying a middle-class life; her Jewish public school…
13. Oral history interview with Blanka Rothschild
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.318 | RG Number: RG-50.549.03.0003
Date:
interview: 2001 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
….549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.…
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 … life that will come of finding the family. It was very difficult period of time. Q: Could you -- could you say a little bit more about sort of the first…
14. Oral history interview with Willie Berg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.165 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0165
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Genoa, Italy on the “SS Conte Biancamano”; going to Shanghai, China; conditions in the Hongkou District of Shanghai and the black market there; life…
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 … loss of life after the area was bombed. In 1949 Willie left Shanghai for Israel where he immediately was conscripted into the army. Later he joined the…
15. Oral history interview with Leon Kowner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.603.2 | RG Number: RG-50.637.0002
Date:
interview: 2005 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leon Kowner (né Kovner) describes his early life; living comfortably in a rented apartment in a good neighborhood in town; attending a private school…
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 … figurines and arranged scenes from Jewish life in show cases….we made Jewish dolls from these figures we built a wedding scene…Passover scene all kinds of…
16. Oral history interview with Blanka Rothschild
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0307 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0057
Date:
interview: 1999 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
….549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.…
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 … towards returning Jews; traveling to Germany; daily life in Germany; immigrating to the United States; living with family members in Detroit; moving to New…
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
… selection process; life in the camp with his younger brother and father; how his brother kept a hidden book by Goethe and they memorized it; getting food in…
18. Oral history interview with Yitzchok Wargon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.8 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0008
Date:
interview: 2013 January 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; life in Radomsko, Poland; being raised and educated in a Hasidic house and community; his cherished memories of the rabbi and seder, including the music…
19. Oral history interview with Kurt Jilovsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.39 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0039
Date:
interview: 1996 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… manufactured tin household articles and steel drums to transport petrol and chemicals; his life in the late 1920s; working for the Philips radio company…
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 …. Late 1920s he had a beautiful life Last job before he left Europe was with Philips radio company Prague was Ideal place for Jews, Masaryk was first head…
20. Oral history interview with Gerda Haas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0185 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0025
Date:
interview: 1998 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
….549 (originally numbered RG-50.393), is on the post-war life of the inteviewees in RG-50.030.…
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 …Gerda Haas discusses her prewar family life in Anspach, Germany; her family’s religious practices; training to be a nurse in Berlin, Germany; her…