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1. Oral history interview with Roy Allen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.29 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0029
Date:
interview: 1987 December 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gestapo on August 1, 1944; being charged as a spy and not a prisoner of war; being imprisoned in Fresnes Penitentiary in Paris for one week and then sent to…
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 … charged as a spy and not a prisoner of war. He was imprisoned in Fresnes Penitentiary in Paris for one week and then sent to Buchenwald. Roy mentions the…
2. 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
… days and then taken to a Red Cross tent by truck and subsequently transported to several camps; being seen by a British prisoner of war who was a…
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 … and then taken to a Red Cross tent by truck and subsequently transported to several camps. Once, on a train he was seen by a British prisoner of war who…
3. Oral history interview with Jean-Michel Rosenfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.59.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0874
Date:
interview: 2016 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as a prisoner of war while serving in the French Army during WWII; attending school until the age of 14; working after the war in the French Social…
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 … that his father was French and volunteered to serve in the army before he was called up. He was taken prisoner of war and did not reveal that he was…
4. Oral history interview with Hans Mehrle
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.42 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0042
Date:
interview: 2004 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Denmark; becoming a prisoner of war under the British forces; his release and return home in 1946; and his life after the war.…
5. Oral history interview with Richard Bedford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.58.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0692
Date:
interview: 2013 April 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--France.…
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 … political prisoners, that we were prisoners of war and belonged in a POW camp. Q: Why do you suppose he did that? A: Pardon? Q: Why do you suppose he did that…
6. Oral history interview with Claude Brunswic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.12 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0012
Date:
interview: 1992 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Trier as a prisoner of war; doing forced labor in Laufeld; experiencing forced marches until liberation in January of 1945; his demobilization and reunion…
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 … where. We ended up we ended up in Trier and that’s where I was registered as a prisoner of war. Q: How long was that journey? A: I don’t think I can…
7. Oral history interview with Willi (Wolf) Akselrad
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.265 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0645
Date:
interview: 2011 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Legion Etrangere during World War II; his father’s time in a Prisoner of War camp; the fearful times he and his mother endured during the war; the…
8. Oral history interview with Henry Blumenfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.101 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0623
Date:
interview: 2011 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Army from 1943 to 1945; how he helped disembark German prisoners of war in the port of Charleston, SC; graduating cum laude from Harvard and being denied…
9. Oral history interview with Raymond Goldfarb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.42 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 April 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--French.…
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 … fellow soldiers. When Germans broke through Maginot Line in May 1940 he became a prisoner of war and sent to Saarbrucken and then nearby to a large camp…
10. Oral history interview with Yvette Christophe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.32 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0032
Date:
interview: 1997 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (he later became a prisoner of war); staying in Paris with her mother; attending school wearing the yellow star of David; her mother finding a passage…
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 …) who was born ‘Nordman’; at the beginning of the war in 1939, her father was mobilized and then became a prisoner of war; Françoise and her mother stayed…
11. Oral history interview with Stephen Gonczy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.21 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0021
Date:
interview: 1982 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… reassigned to 483G and moved to the front; interrogating prisoners of war, looking for technical and strategic information; how his division (63rd Infantry…
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 …G and moved to the front and participated in intelligence - interrogating prisoners of war - looking for technical and strategic information. If German…
12. Oral history interview with Juergen Simonson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0051 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0455
Date:
interview: 1998 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experience preaching in a German prisoner of war camp in France and his pursuing a call to ministry in England; his time at theological college in Surrey…
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 … friend of my father’s, they’d been in theological college together -- appeared and said he was also looking after a big, German prisoner of war camp, down…
13. Morton N. Cohen collection
1990.297 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.297
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-1945
… 1934, photographs of a Soviet prisoner of war (POW) concentration camp located in Warstein, Germany, and photographs of soldiers on ships returning to…
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 … under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1934, photographs of a Soviet prisoner of war (POW) concentration camp located in Warstein, Germany, and photographs of…
14. Oral history interview with Stephanie Hessel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.19 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0019
Date:
interview: 1989 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps.…
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 … Russian soldiers. In Buchenwald, there was a group of prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, and they held among-- were among themselves, lived among…
15. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
…Prisoners of war--Poland.…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
16. Oral history interview with Father Francis Cegielka
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0052
Date:
interview: 1990 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--France.…
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 … unhappy because of the war. And my father was convoked to the army as the officer because he was ordered the school, and did then in the first year of...uh…
17. Oral history interview with Georges Loinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.13 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0013
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps.…
18. Oral history interview with Jacques Lazarus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.18 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 December 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war escapes--France.…
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 … This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. This is a verbatim…
19. Oral history interview with Odette Hallowes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.16 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0016
Date:
interview: 1986 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women prisoners of war.…
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 …http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word…
20. Luba Mendelsberg letters
1995.A.0709 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0709
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1954
…Prisoners of War--Soviet Union.…
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 … of war and a postcard to Luba from a different nephew who later perished. Language: Yiddish, Polish Administrative Information Access…