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1. Oral history interview with Greta Liebman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.858 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0858
Date:
interview: 1996 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Frankfurt; the greater freedom she remembers there; Kristallnacht; her flight with her mother and other family members to Rotterdam, Netherlands; their…
2. Oral history interview with Kurt Roberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.33 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0141
Date:
interview: 2001 March 16
interview: 2020 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Victor Roberg’s profession as a merchant for the firm Gebrüder Freidberg; his family’s religious practices; Kristallnacht; antisemitism in his hometown…
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 … brother Hans went to Holland 1937 - Family store closed, mother applied for visas to US. November 1938 - Kristallnacht - father taken to Oranienburg camp…
3. Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in November 1938, and his father arrest and imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mr. Philippi describes being smuggled to Holland and…
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 …. -- after the Kristallnacht was working there. 18 And then was called to the management which has been 19 changed -- it was Jewish management and they put…
4. Oral history interview with Moshe Keini
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.193 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0193
Date:
interview: 1994 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Moshe Keini (né Max Kchechover-Cohen), born in Cologne, Germany, discusses traveling to Holland after Kristallnacht; life in children's home near…
5. Oral history interview with Hella Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1286 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1286
Date:
interview: 1991 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hella Weiss (née Heilbronn), born on October 29, 1934, discusses her childhood in Lengerich, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht; her trip to…
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 … CAN REMEMBER OF ANY GROWING FEAR ON THE PART OF YOUR FAMILY ABOUT THE POLITICS At the crystal -- what do you call it -- KRISTALLNACHT. -- Kristallnacht…
6. Oral history interview with Edith Hartog Mayer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.364.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and considered himself to be a German first and a Jew second; Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, at which time her two brothers were arrested by the…
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 … God he didn't look Jewish, but they, my brothers had tried in the night of November 9, the Kristallnacht, to go illegally to Holland. And my youngest…
7. Oral history interview with Ruth Willdorf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381
Date:
interview: 2001 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; their move to Kalkar, Germany; the antisemitism she experienced while traveling to and from school and her experiences during Kristallnacht in November…
8. Oral history interview with Walter Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.73 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0073
Date:
interview: 1986 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… uncles deciding to move the family to Stuttgart, Germany in 1936; attending an all Jewish school; the events on Kristallnacht, including the burning of the…
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 … inconvenience. All changed November 9th 1938 with Kristallnacht. 0:13 His synagogue was burnt down, and just about all of the Jewish men were arrested and sent to…
9. Oral history interview with Arthur Danziger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.10.1 | RG Number: RG-50.963.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… realizing Arthur’s father was "stateless" and not arresting him; witnessing Kristallnacht; the Nuremberg laws in 1935 and how they marginalized Jewish adults…
10. Jacobson family papers
1995.A.0196.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0196.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
…’s half-brother, Thomas Michel was born in 1938. During Kristallnacht Rudolph’s stepfather was arrested and sent to Dachau. He was released only after…
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 … military parade and a German guard held him up as an example of Germany’s future because he was blond as a child. During Kristallnacht Rudolph’s stepfather…
11. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
… gymnasium. On November 9 and 10, 1938, German officials instigated pogroms of violence and destruction against Jews and their property, known as Kristallnacht…
12. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
… 1938, the Zellers lost their Austrian citizenship. Several relatives began to emigrate from Germany. After Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get…
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 … Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get him on a Kindertranport. After several failed attempts, Frederic, along with his cousin Norbert and several other…
13. Teitz family papers
2018.131.1 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.131.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1987
…, and Emil was fired from his job for being Jewish in 1938. After Kristallnacht, the family began making plans to emigrate from Germany. The same year…
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 … Emil was fired from his job for being Jewish in 1938. After Kristallnacht, the family began making plans to emigrate from Germany. The same year, the…
14. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
… following Kristallnacht and, upon his release, emigrated via Venezuela to Cuba where he lived with his sister Fini Hillburn. Henry sailed to Cuba with his…
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 … Vienna. He was imprisoned in Dachau following Kristallnacht and, upon his release, emigrated via Venezuela to Cuba where he lived with his sister Fini…
15. Oral history interview with Carla Heijmans Lessing
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.397.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0126
Date:
interview: 1990 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … little bit...my grandparents were in Germany in the Kristallnacht and they got out, I believe in July or August of 1939, and they settled with my uncle in…
16. Oral history interview with Harry Ebert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.357 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0592
Date:
interview: 2010 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Kristallnacht – we did not experience anything at Kristallnacht, at that school, but it was closed afterwards. And the different buildings were sold to various…
17. Oral history interview with Gilbert L. van Mourik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.149 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0149
Date:
interview: 2000 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Jew. After Kristallnacht, in 1938, her father’s assets were taken and they were given a small allowance. He couldn’t continue his business. The family…
18. Oral history interview with Adriaan van As
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.586 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0005
Date:
interview: 2004 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … becoming biased. He knew of Kristallnacht, but it meant little to his community. 1.34: it opened his eyes to and got an interest in the Jews. He joined the…
19. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.335 | RG Number: RG-67.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
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 … interest to Jews in post-war Holland, 1949. Dutch. Among the issues discussed are: Kristallnacht, Nazi concentration camps, memorials to victims of the…
20. Esther L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2312) interviewed by Elizabeth Jacob,
Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2312
Author/Creator:
L., Esther, 1926-
Published:
Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1992
Special Collection:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
…Kristallnacht, 1938.…