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1. Oral history interview with Avraham Tomashov
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.361 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0361
Date:
interview: 1999 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
2. Oral history interview with Yosef Lapid
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.276 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0276
Date:
interview: 1996 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
3. Oral history interview with Ester Sheinberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.312 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0312
Date:
interview: 1996 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
4. Oral history interview with Zehava Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.293 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0293
Date:
interview: 1996 October 10
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … Silesia. During the war, the family lived in Bochnia near Krakow, where there were plants to mine salt. 1:07:47 The day war began. Father had family in…
5. Oral history interview with Sara Schreiber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.384 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0384
Date:
interview: 2000 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … talks about the German invasion before Passover in 1944 and the anti‐Jewish measures that followed. She and her family were moved to a ghetto and then…
6. Oral history interview with Natan Raviv
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.299 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0299
Date:
interview: 1996 October 24
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … describes his life there. He attended a Jewish Zionist High School. 3:21 In March 1939, Hungarian soldiers who had a pact with the Germans, entered the…
7. Oral history interview with Chaia Pshititzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.291 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0291
Date:
interview: 1996 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
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 … Atlit (Nov. 1945), Kibbutz stay and final meeting her aunt. 8:20 to 8:30 (end of tape 2) TwoPartisan Stories The fate of ten Ukrainian partisans who…
8. Oral history interview with Judit Herskovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.378 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0378
Date:
interview: 2000 June 15
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
9. Oral history interview with Elazar Shafrir
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.309 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0309
Date:
interview: 1996 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
10. Oral history interview with Peretz Revess
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.126 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0126
Date:
interview: 1993 June 23
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …. 17:45:55 Noninka got pregnant during the end of the war. She gave birth to our daughter: Judith, in October 1945. 17:52:20 We moved again to a new…
11. Oral history interview with Agnes Valatin Pal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.166 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0114
Date:
interview: 2020 May 06-2020 May 08
interview: 2020 May 07
interview: 2020 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
12. Oral history interview with Dan Zimerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.180 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0180
Date:
interview: 1993 June 04
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.…
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 …. Describes social life. Joined Hashomer Hatzair and in 1939 became leader of summer camp and from there to Hachshara. Talks about the influence of Benito, the…
13. Oral history interview with László Keveházi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.101 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0101
Date:
interview: 2016 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
14. Oral history interview with Fredka Mazia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.102 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0102
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … do other things. I remember when the war started on Friday 9.1.1939; the Polish policemen came to our house and arrested my father, because he had…
15. Oral history interview with Jenő Szigeti
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.109 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0109
Date:
interview: 2016 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
16. Oral history interview with Ferenc Hajba
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.102 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0102
Date:
interview: 2016 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
17. Oral history interview with Michael Bernath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.365.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0022
Date:
interview: 1990 March 22
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Hungary.…
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 … another brother, Andy. He was – he came to the United States in 1939, just in nick of the time. Just, with my uncle, escaped certain death you know from the…
18. Oral history interview with Yehoshua Glick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.369 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0369
Date:
interview: 2000 March 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … Battle of Stalingrad were being held. In May 1945, when the war ended, the prisoners of war were not released; they were told that they would have to work…
19. Oral history interview with Meir Gecht
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.282 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0282
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … seven, Meir went to a Jewish elementary school. He learned Bible in Yiddish. Education was secular. Meir studied for four years until 1939 when the…
20. Oral history interview with Erzsébet Molnar Bácskai
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.106 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0106
Date:
interview: 2016 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
21. Oral history interview with Katalin Karpati
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.59 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0059
Date:
interview: 1992 June 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … World War I to earn money. Three daughters emigrated and settled in the New York area. Joseph’s mother, Tereź Spitz, was born in Buj, Hungary around…
22. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Sandy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.5 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1069
Date:
interview: 2020 January 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … let me bring it up to 1939. And 1939, you are 16 years old, yes? Yeah. 15, 16. Yeah. And on September 1, Hitler invades Poland, and World War II starts…
23. Oral history interview with Frigyes Rotharidesz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.91 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0091
Date:
interview: 2015 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
24. Oral history interview with Zipora Vardi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.161 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0161
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … illustrates her memory characteristics: remembering by association. 1:43 1939-start of war. Learning of murder of Jews, Kristalnacht. Describes how news was…
25. Oral history interview with Dán Zoltán
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.119 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0119
Date:
interview: 2017 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
26. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0529
Date:
interview: 2015 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …. There were many difficulties once war was underway in Europe in the fall of 1939. Tell us about the circumstances for your family and for you in those…
27. Oral history interview with Emőke Toós Jancsó
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.100 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0100
Date:
interview: 2016 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
28. Oral history interview with Chanie Singer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.16 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0016
Date:
interview: 2014 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
29. Oral history interview with Iakov Ronen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.129 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0129
Date:
interview: 1993 February 21
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … outbreak of war. 2.55 Describes his activities, mostly supplying school programs, as youth movement activist, between the years 1939 and 1941. While in…
30. Oral history interview with Helena Hammershmash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.61 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0061
Date:
interview: 1991 April 21
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … account of the internment camps in Hungary for Jewish refugees from Poland. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
31. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0687
Date:
interview: 2019 April 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … born to a religious Jewish family on May 8, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just 3 when World War II started. Although he was born in Riga, Latvia, Manny…
32. Oral history interview with Tzvi Shpigal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.147 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0147
Date:
interview: 1993 January 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … army and went to officer school. He did not graduate because he was Jewish. 1.14 He was sent to various labor camps and also to punishment camp koshitse…
33. Oral history interview with Betty Migdol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.93 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0093
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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 …, 1945, I would say in January, six months before the war ended. So he came back home to Ruscova. Q: Now were there other changes under the Hungarians that…
34. Oral history interview with Anna Wollner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0439 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0011
Date:
interview: 1994 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Slupsk.…
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 … Bucharest, but there was an uprising. Her family was aware when the war began in September 1939. Her parents forced her to leave school at age 15 or 16 as…
35. Oral history interview with Ava Schneck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.14 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0014
Date:
interview: 2014 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
36. Oral history interview with Ilona Borsi Máthé
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.103 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0103
Date:
interview: 2016 July 25
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
37. Oral history interview with Márta Páll Reusz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.120 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0120
Date:
interview: 2017 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
38. Oral history interview with Piroska Naszádos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.107 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0107
Date:
interview: 2016 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
39. Oral history interview with Miriam Ofer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.374.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0833
Date:
interview: 2015 November 30-2015 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … caught him after the war and they hung him. They put him for a trial. This I know when I came back in 1945. Q: Do you remember for those I’m going to…
40. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0313
Date:
interview: 2010 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
41. Oral history interview with Hedva Zeliger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.178 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0178
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …, prompted her to leave agronomy studies and specialize in nursing. 01:13 to 01:27 War Outbreak She describes Jewish life until 1939, and her first encounter…
42. Oral history interview with Eva Rozsa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.117 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0117
Date:
interview: 1992 February 12
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …, 1939; there was a new right-wing prime minister who came to power in Hungary. That was later, I told you, these radio broadcasts what we heard. That was…
43. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0403
Date:
interview: 2012 July 26
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … 1933. Manny’s father was based at the renowned Rombach Street synagogue. Between the wars, Budapest was an important Jewish center in Europe. 1933-39…
44. Oral history interview with Marianna Sziráczky László
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.117 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0117
Date:
interview: 2017 February 17
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
45. Oral history interview with Miklós Ferenc Kóródi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.2 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0002
Date:
interview: 2011 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
46. Oral history interview with Ilona Aranka Kovács Szabó
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.104 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0104
Date:
interview: 2016 September 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
47. Oral history interview with Lajos Sághy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.92.1 | RG Number: RG-90.200.0001
Date:
interview: 2020 June 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
48. Oral history interview with Israel Miller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.254 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0254
Date:
interview: 1995 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 …, at end of 1938 studied in another yeshiva in Galanta. In 1939, Galanta was also annexed to Hungary; then began the restrictions. 7.36 Israel doesn't…
49. Oral history interview with Anikó Gergely Dési
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.88 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0089
Date:
interview: 2019 November 15
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…
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 … not return after the last call-up. After the war, her mother learned that he had died on January 5, 1945, somewhere around Szombathely, at Hungary…
50. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary--Budapest.…
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 …: Bergen‐Belsen (Concentration camp) Topical Subject: World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Jews‐‐Rescue‐‐Hungary‐‐Budapest. Jewish families‐‐Hungary‐‐Budapest…