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1. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0666
Date:
interview: 2018 July 19
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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 … Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in 1939, Botragy fell under Hungarian rule. Irene and her siblings could not attend school, and her father…
2. Oral history interview with Juan Lamac
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.55 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0055
Date:
interview: 2010 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … to a public school and was active in many Jewish and German organizations. When Germany invaded, he was studying but needed to go to work. He did it…
3. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0423
Date:
interview: 2013 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … this photograph, Irene is at the lower left with two of her sisters and cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia, Botragy fell…
4. Oral history interview with Simon Fixler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.17 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0017
Date:
interview: 1984 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… wife to Germany, where they remained for three years; being selected for sponsorship to Cleveland, OH by a knitting mill; having several knitting jobs…
5. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0678
Date:
interview: 2019 March 27
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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 … siblings. In this photograph, Irene is at the lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in…
6. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0402
Date:
interview: 2012 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 …—Moshe, Edit, Reuven, Gershon, and Serena. Hungarian Authorities Intensify Persecution of Jews When Nazi Germany dismembered Czechoslovakia in 1939…
7. Oral history interview with Helga Niedrich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.152.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0761
Date:
interview: 2014 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to the Soviet zone of Germany and their work on a farm there; their escape to the British zone; visiting the Czech Republic later in life; her move to…
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 … Czechoslovakia but it's very German. And it's also the part that Hitler annexed to Germany in the war. So we moved there. What did you mean, or what was involved…
8. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
9. Oral history interview with Hugo Langshur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.73.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0239
Date:
interview: 2015 February 09
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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 …. Q: Where were you born? A: I was born in a small provincial city about 20,000 inhabitants by the name of Jagendorf in, it was in Germany and its Czech…
10. Oral history interview with Sam Hilton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.21 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0021
Date:
interview: 1988 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. Germany. In June of 1944 the train pulled up. And we wound up in a very famous camp of…
11. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0454
Date:
interview: 2014 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … photograph Irene is at the lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in 1939, Botragy fell…
12. Oral history interview with Hanns Stein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.85 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0085
Date:
interview: 2011 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and uncle sending all the machinery for their factory to Chile; crossing Germany and being stopped at the border with Holland and being sent back into…
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 … day of departure they were only allowed a suitcase each, and only 10 marks. They departed by railroad, crossing all of Germany. At the border with…
13. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
14. Oral history interview with František Daniel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.12 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0012
Date:
interview: 1997 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hodonin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland; being sent to Buchenwald, then Dora in Germany…
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 … exchange, and that labor exchange sent them to work in Germany. That’s perhaps how it was. They gave me a slice of bread and I saw the entire camp how…
15. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0514
Date:
interview: 2015 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
16. Oral history interview with Lisbeth Hurst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.4 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0004
Date:
interview: 1989 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
17. Oral history interview with Joseph Ronec
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.94 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0094
Date:
interview: 1996 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… slave laborer for I.G. Farben; going to Buchenwald in transit from January 28 to February 1945; being sent to various camps in Germany between February…
18. Oral history interview with Tova Gurevitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.54 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0054
Date:
interview: 1992 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… returned to Vilna at the end of July 1944; being recruited to teach children Hebrew; going to Łódź, Germany, Prague, and Paris in order to care for Jewish…
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 … homes where they had been placed. 5.48 She was sent, with groups of children (destined to immigrate to Palestine) to Germany and then Prague and back to…
19. Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.484 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0484
Date:
interview: 1990 June 14
interview: 1990 September 13
interview: 1990 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stepmother to live in an orphanage in 1933; leaving the orphanage after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1939; being deported to…
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 … they had 12 to drive him all over to Lidice to bury because they burned 13 to ashes the town. The children they took to Germany. The 14 man they killed…
20. Oral history interview with Frank Hyde
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.89.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0706
Date:
interview: 2013 May 04
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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 … Nations, which was 864 00:39:07,390 --> 00:39:12,210 the forerunner of the United Nations, they told Germany, 865 00:39:12,210 --> 00:39:14,370 not Hitler…
21. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0559
Date:
interview: 2016 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in 1939, Botragy fell under Hungarian rule. Irene and her siblings could not…
22. Oral history interview with Jorgen Kieler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.391.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Republic; going to Germany in 1937 to study German art and literature at University of Munich for six months; seeing Nazi propaganda posters; Germany…
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 … that time. • Extensive recollections of Germany’s invasion of Denmark in April 4, 1940 while he was living in Copenhagen, and the year that followed…
23. German medical transport soldier photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2022.245.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1941
…’s experiences in Germany first with the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service; RAD) in Alsbach, Germany and the Wehrmacht 35th Infantry Division in 1938, and…
24. Oral history interview with Henry Tonkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.46 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0046
Date:
interview: 1996 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… difficulty of adapting to life after the war; his suicidal thoughts; going to Lübeck, Germany; being arrested and imprisoned for weeks; denying being Jewish…
25. Oral history interview with Irene Fogel Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0745
Date:
interview: 2021 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … aunts, who saved their lives; the SS evacuating them on foot to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in central Germany in January 1945; the SS transporting…
26. Oral history interview with Yoel Shtrol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.355 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0355
Date:
interview: 1999 November 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Germany and Hungary to search for relatives, but finding none; returning to his village and supporting himself by begging; going to Dej, where his…
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 … went to Germany and Hungary to search for relatives, but found none. He returned to his village and supported himself by begging. When he went to Dej…
27. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0591
Date:
interview: 2017 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
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 … lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in 1939, Botragy fell under Hungarian rule…
28. Oral history interview with Zdenka Erlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.51 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0051
Date:
interview: 1985 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…East Prussia (Germany)…
29. Oral history interview with Benjamin Murmelstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.5 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … murdered soon after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. Murmelstein goes on that in the case of Friedmann, he became a victim and was murdered due to…
30. Oral history interview with Irene Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.23 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0023
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; registering as a Czech citizen; going to Prague in an attempt to leave the country after the communists took over; going to the American Zone of Germany…
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 … we can crawl under the fence and get to the other side 128 00:07:20,140 --> 00:07:26,440 to Germany, and that was the American zone of Germany. 129 00…
31. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
32. Oral history interview with Max Hollweg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.79 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0079
Date:
interview: 1994 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Hollweg, born in 1920 in Remscheid, Germany, discusses being raised as a Jehovah’s Witness (JW); his 18 brothers and sisters; being in Prague…
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 …MAX HOLLWEG RG-50.028.0079 (Interview in German) Max Hollweg was born in 1920 in Remscheid, Germany, as a Jehovah’s Witness. He had 18 brothers and…
33. Oral history interview with Premysl Josef Dobias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.7 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0007
Date:
interview: 1989 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the attitude of Czechoslovakian fascists; the relations with Jews; Francophile attitudes; relations with neighboring countries; visiting Berlin, Germany…
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 … certain political factors started to work on the idea that the Sudeten Germans, called at that time, should belong to Germany-- not only emigrating to…
34. Oral history interview with Leonore Hollander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1209 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1209
Date:
interview: 1983 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… study in chemistry from 1933 to 1935; getting married in 1934 to Franz Koehler; living in Germany as “American Mischlinge” throughout the Nazi era; living…
35. Oral history interview with William Luksenburg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0102
Date:
interview: 1998 May 26
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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 …William Luksenburg RG-50.106*102 William Luksenburg’s final stage of the war was a death march from Regensburg, Germany, to Lebenau, Germany. A…
36. Oral history interview with Luigi Baldan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.136.1 | RG Number: RG-90.246.0001
Date:
interview: 2007 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Frankfurt am Main (Germany)…
37. Oral history interview with Leonore Hollander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.315 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0315
Date:
interview: 1983 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… study in chemistry from 1933 to 1935; getting married in 1934 to Franz Koehler; living in Germany as “American Mischlinge” throughout the Nazi era; living…
38. Oral history interview with Walter Silberstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09
interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Silberstein, born November 9, 1902 in Stargard, Germany (Poland), describes being the son of the only rabbi serving around Stargard; studying…
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 … Stettin. Today it is Polish. JF: At that time it was Germany? WS: Yes. JF: Can you tell me a little bit about your family? WS: My father was a rabbi in…
39. Oral history interview with Edit (Dita) Kraus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.81 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0081
Date:
interview: 1992 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… moved to a work camp in Hamburg, Germany, where she removed debris of collapsed buildings and worked in distilleries along the Elba River; being sent to…
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 …. Later, in 1937, she overheard her parents talking seriously about Germany’s annexation of the Suddetenland. Her mother http://collections…
40. Oral history interview with Marcel Bercau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.144 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0153
Date:
interview: 2002 May 07
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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 … Drancy in 1941; remaining in Drancy with his father and brother for a year before they were deported to Germany; going to Auschwitz, where he worked as an…
41. Oral history interview with Sita de Leeuw
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.599 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0599
Date:
interview: 2003 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sita de Leeuw discusses her childhood in Nuremberg, Germany; the family's move to Leipzig when Hitler rose to power in 1933; her schooling and…
42. Oral history interview with Georges Novak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.72 | RG Number: RG-50.659.0001
Date:
2009 December-2010 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany.…
43. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
44. Oral history interview with Rudolf Schmerl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.34 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0034
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rudolf Schmerl, born in August 1930 outside of Berlin, Germany, describes his family; moving to Berlin in 1935; his family history; experiencing…
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 … birth. My present address is 6750 Hawaii Kai Drive, here in Honolulu. I was born in August 1930 in Nauen, Germany, which is a suburb right outside of…
45. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein papers
2017.258.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2017.258.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1985
bulk: 1931-1944
…Heinz Wallerstein (later known as Henry Wallerstein, 1914-1987) was born in Kassel, Germany in 23 July 1914 to Jenny (née Stern, b. 1881) and Harry…
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 … Abstract: The collection documents Heinz Wallerstein of Kassel, Germany, his wife Mira Wallerstein of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), and their…
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46. Oral history interview with Peter Phillips
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0420 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0069
Date:
interview: 1997 June 16
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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 … Essen, Germany, December 5th, 1931. 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,460 Let's talk about your family. 15 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:54,830 Who were the members…
47. Oral history interview with Gertrude Skalsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.39 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0039
Date:
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
48. Green knit cap worn by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.5
Date:
use: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
49. Berger, Hartstein, and Marx families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.436.1
…Consists of correspondence pertaining to the Hartstein, Berger, and Marx families of Stuttgart, Germany; Prague; and the United States.…
50. Oral history interview with Zelda Farbenblum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.16 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0016
Date:
interview: 1990 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…