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1. Oral history interview with Hugh Jenkins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0412 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0059
Date:
interview: 1997 January 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … picked to go to Poland. Quaker practices were part of the training. Two members were from his congregation. They had silence before discussions to prepare…
2. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… journalists’ coverage of the war, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and Nazi military advances. The Cairo, Egypt Diary, September 5 - November 30, 1939 is…
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 … such as Palestine, refugees, Jewish immigration, Zionism, critiques of journalists’ coverage of the war, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and Nazi military…
3. Oral history interview with Leon Greenman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.52 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0052
Date:
interview: 1986 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland.…
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 … was the assistant of Schlesinger and Schlesinger was with him. He said, come down, Schlesinger, he said, or I'll send you to Poland. I said, you can…
4. Oral history interview with Jan Karski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.44 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0044
Date:
interview: 1988 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jan Karski, born in 1914 in Lauch, Poland, describes the terrible situation of the Jews in Europe in the 1930s and his interest in the mechanisms of…
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 … agreed. His wife was upset about the interview and Lanzman turned their house upside down. 05:00 He had kept silent about things he had seen in Poland…
5. Oral history interview with Paul Strassmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.423.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0227
Date:
interview: 1990 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish partisans (Holocaust)--Poland.…
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 … will liberate Slovakia. Uh, the deal is made, uh, in May, but that's when the news comes out what happened in Poland.1 As you know...again it was a…
6. Oral history interview with Max Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.46 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0046
Date:
interview: 1999 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Weingarten, born in April 1913 in Lechnau, Poland, discusses his childhood in Vienna, Austria; his education and religious upbringing; studying…
7. Zbiór polskiej prasy konspiracyjnej
Document | Accession Number: 2018.616.1 | RG Number: RG-15.662
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Collection of Polish underground press
…A collection of 359 titles of the Polish underground press from all areas of the occupied Poland. The collection includes both titles issued by…
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 …" Voice of Poland Londyn; 10 września 1945 r. Londyn Archiwum Zakładu Historii Ruchu Ludowego Prasa konspiracyj na P-1536 "Wiadomości wydawnicze" The…
8. Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.504)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.82.1 | RG Number: RG-15.534
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1944
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in London
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Poland. Konsulat Generalny (London, England)…
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 …: Poland. Konsulat Generalny (London, England) Accession Number: 2016.82.1 Record Group Number: RG-15.534 Extent: 9 digital files: PDF (60.0 MB) Repository…
9. Envelope fragment with two stamps acquired by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.5
Date:
commemoration: 1940 May
issue: 1943 September 01
…Wojciech Hermanowski (later, Richard, b. 1929) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Jan (1899-1967) and Stanislawa (nee Laszez,1901-1969) Hermanowski. He…
10. Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (GK 160)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.85.1 | RG Number: RG-15.677
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London
…Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London…
11. Kurt and Johanna Fish family papers
1996.28 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.28
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1991
bulk: 1938-1945
…Kurt Fisch (later Fish) (1917-2008) was born in Vienna to Pinchas and Rosalie (“Sali”) Fisch (née Schächter), both of whom were born in Poland. His…
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 … Pinchas and Rosalie (“Sali”) Fisch (née Schächter), both of whom were born in Poland. His older brother, Heinrich, was born on October 23, 1904, also in…
12. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0708
Date:
interview: 2019 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Halina Yasharoff Peabody (née Litman), born on December 12, 1932 in Krakow, Poland, describes growing up in Krakow in a liberal Jewish family; her…
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 … Krakow, Poland. Her father was a dentist and her mother was a champion swimmer. Halina's hometown of Zaleszczyki, today Ukraine, came under Soviet…
13. Oral history interview with Irene Dynkiewicz Silver
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.472 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0214
Date:
interview: 1990 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Irene Dynkiewicz Silver, born in January 1933 in Łódź, Poland, describes her family and the Jewish community in her town before the war; her family…
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 … DYNKIEWICZ SILVER November 1, 1990 Q: Why don't we start. Tell us your name. A: My name is Irene Silver, but my maiden name when I lived in Poland was Irene…
14. Oral history interview with Erna Witsches Schmidmayer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.176.5 | RG Number: RG-50.928.0005
Date:
interview: 2017 August 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erna Witsches Schmidmayer, born in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses her childhood in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); escaping Nazi Germany on the…
15. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Fanny Hermelin Herzbaum. Alexander was a chemical engineer, born in Tarnow, Poland, in February 1886 to Mendel (1855-1930) and Chana Ettinger Herzbaum…
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 … in Łódź and Warsaw, his imprisonment in a Russian gulag following the German and Russian partition of Poland, his military service with the Polish…
16. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
…Michal Klepfisz (1913-1943) was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Miriam (neé Rojza, ?-1942) and Jakob Klepfisz (?-1942). His parents were both teachers at…
17. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0116
Date:
interview: 2004 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Halina Yasharoff Peabody (née Litman), born on December 12, 1932 in Krakow, Poland, describes growing up in Krakow in a liberal Jewish family; her…
18. Oral history interview with Jan Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.401 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0025
Date:
interview: 1996 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jan Nowak Jezioránski (nom de guerre Nowak), born in 1913 in Warsaw, Poland, describes his activity with the Polish underground; being a survivor of…
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 … have a considerable impact on the development in Poland between ’52 and ’89 when -- when Poland was liberated, in a way. So this was my most important…
19. Oral history interview with Roman Curtis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.140 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0140
Date:
interview: 1989 January 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and…
20. Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
2018.395.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 May 09
…Emanuel Scherer (1901-1977) was born in Krakow, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), to Jewish parents. He also had multiple younger siblings. During this…