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1. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
2. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
3. Oral history interview with Walter Schnell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0323 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0206
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Schnell, born on April 16, 1904 in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland), describes his family and childhood; going to study crystal and…
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 … Schnell. And I was born on April 16, 1904. Q: OK. Where? A: In Strehlen. This is Silesia...is the province of Silesia in Germany. Q: Thank you. A: You…
4. Oral history interview with Ray Buch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0363 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0045
Date:
interview: 1989 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … kept moving back in towards the interior of Germany, and, uh, the, well, you know, this went on a couple of months. I'm trying to talk here in a few…
5. Isabella Leitner collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.061 | RG Number: RG-10.015.01
… members to the United States and the search for other family members who were left behind in Germany. Also included is an audiotape containing a speech by…
6. Oral history interview with Harry Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.2 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0002
Date:
interview: 1988 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Adler, born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood; moving with his family in 1932 to Paris, France; attending school in France…
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 …. All right. I'm Harry Adler. I was born in Germany, in Berlin, in 1924. And my father was Abraham Adler. My mother was Malka Adler. Both Mom and Dad were…
7. Oral history interview with Anna Geslewitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.15 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0015
Date:
interview: 1988 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto with her sister; registering to go to Germany for work; passing as Christians; never seeing her father again; traveling through Krakow, Poland and…
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 … and Germany had the western part. Our city was in the eastern part and the Russians were there from 1939 to 1941. In 1941 the Germans came in and took…
8. Oral history interview with Daniel Geslewitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.16 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0016
Date:
interview: 1988 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… because they were chosen for work; conditions in the camp, including the meager food and beatings; being sent after a week to Germany to do forced labor as…
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 …'t work in Auschwitz. Was there a short time. He became a metal worker and left Auschwitz after 7-8 days to go to Germany to work. He worked in a village in…
9. Oral history interview with Herschel Auerbach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.2 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on in the camps; going to Zeitz, Germany, where a train of inmates had been burned; going to a labor camp south of Leipzig, Germany, where prisoners of…
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 … then went on the Nordhausen? A. Yes. It was located in central Germany. It was one camp in a series of fifty camps that were scattered throughout the…
10. Liebermensch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.0223 | RG Number: RG-10.062
…Ruth Liebermensch was born on February 6, 1925, in Mannheim, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Samuel and Gisela Schiff Liebermensch. She had a sister…
11. Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies
1990.333.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.47
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 January 19-1939 January 25
Title:
Ein merkwürdiger katholischer Bischof...
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
Strange Catholic Bishop
Word of the Week
…Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies…
12. Antisemitic poster featuring supposed warnings about Jews from Benjamin Franklin
1990.333.48 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.48
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 February 09-1939 February 15
Title:
Vor 150 Jahren: “Ich warne Sie, meine Herren ...!” Hat der große Franklin Amerika vergeblich gewarnt?
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
150 years ago, I warn you gentlemen ... Has the great Franklin warned America in vain?
Word of the Week
…Munich (Germany)…
13. Oral history interview with Sidney Cole
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.8 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Germany.…
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 … roundup of the Jews in Germany. The Russians arrived in May 1945. They were led by a Major who had been educated in Minnesota and they also had several…
14. Oral history interview with Raymond Federman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.18 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0018
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany with two Belgians; living on a farm for two years; immigrating to the United States and settling in Detroit, MI; working at Chrysler and attending…
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 … Germany, not in camps, in factories. All the Frenchmen. So there were no farmers. So women and children were running the farms. So when they saw a 14-year…
15. Oral history interview with Leo Weinrieb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.59 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0059
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Weinrieb, born 1917 in Zagorza, Russia (possibly Zagorsk, Russia), describes his parents fleeing illegally to Germany to avoid service in the Red…
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 … in Russia. Yes. In 1919 my parents left Russia because they deserted the Red Army, and they entered illegally into Germany. My father took a job there…
16. Oral history interview with Marty Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0079
Date:
interview: 1990 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where he was a track athlete chosen to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Germany; being one of two Jews on the United States Olympic track team…
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 … made the team; and, uh, at the time there was talk of a boycott. Uh, a boycott because of Nazi Germany. And the games were being held in Berlin, of…
17. Oral history interview with Hessy Levinsons Taft
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.350.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0230
Date:
interview: 1990 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hessy Levinsons Taft, born on May 17, 1934 in Berlin, Germany, describes her family and childhood; her parents having her photo taken in 1934 and the…
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 … born in Berlin, Germany, at a bad time during the Hitler era. I was born in May...uh...1934. Q: And the actual date was May. A: May 17, 1934. Q: Let…
18. Oral history interview with Peretz Milbauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.353.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0162
Date:
interview: 1990 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United States Army; being sent overseas in July 1944 and arriving to his station in Remse, Germany on December 5, 1944; liberating prisoners from a death…
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 … resumed the onslaught on Germany. Q: And then? A: Oh, then uh December 5th, we entered Germany. And again we followed uh an armored unit through; and the…
19. Oral history interview with Abraham Malach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.364.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0144
Date:
interview: 1990 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … shipping it to Germany and to the uh manufacturers of uh shoes. So he was, he was one of those that were wholesaling the uh the leather goods. Q: You were…
20. Oral history interview with Guy Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.379.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0223
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Guy Stern, born on January 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany, describes growing up in a Jewish family; attending a German school, where he had many non…
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 … course even USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0223 2 as it does now in Germany at age ten, and uh uh his name was Heinrich, Heinrich Hennes, and uh he uh when the…