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1. Oral history interview with Julia Wiśniowska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.141 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0141
Date:
interview: 2002 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julia Wiśniowska, born in Mościce, Poland (near Tarnów, Poland) in 1929, discusses the arrival of German forces and events in Tarnów during the war…
2. Oral history interview with Anna Pytka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.62 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0062
Date:
interview: 1998 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anna Pytka, born in Wola Rzędzińska, Poland near Tarnów in 1929, discusses the ghetto in Tarnów; selling bread to the prisoners in the ghetto; hiding…
3. Oral history interview with Władislaw Serwin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.102 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0102
Date:
interview: 1999 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Władislaw Serwin, born in 1933 in Tarnów, Poland, describes the prewar Jewish community of Tarnów; the burning of the local synagogue by German…
4. Fred Feld papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.8
Date:
creation: 1938-1941
…, 1938, and two postcards written by Baruch Wiener in Tarnów, Poland, to his brother-in-law, Mathias Scheer in Brooklyn , N.Y. in September 1941.…
5. Oral history interview with Stanisław Wróbel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.64 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0064
Date:
interview: 1998 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanislaw Wróbel, born in Tarnów, Poland in 1929, discusses entering the ghetto after its liquidation; witnessing the looting of Jewish belongings…
6. Oral history interview with Orna Birenbach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.15 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0015
Date:
interview: 1993 June 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Orna Birenbach discusses her return to Poland in 1987 to retrace her earlier life; returning to Warsaw and Krakow; Tarnow in 1941 and the action that…
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 …RG-50.120*015 Bierenbch, Orna 5.00 This tape is a one-hour additional testimony to the one she gave in 1983. In 1987, she returned to Poland with her…
7. Oral history interview with Aaron Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.48 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0048
Date:
interview: 1989 March 19
interview: 1989 April 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Aaron Schwarz discusses his childhood in Zarowka, Poland; escaping deportation by jumping from a train and returning home to Zarowka; his arrest in…
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 … this is how they thought of this, a couple Jews 808 00:42:16,170 --> 00:42:17,750 there in Poland. 809 00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:23,150 Now, you cannot…
8. Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Tarnowie (Sygn. 365)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.331.1 | RG Number: RG-15.623
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1949
Alternate Title:
County Jewish Committee in Tarnów
…Tarnów is a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Kraków (Cracow). Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. Jews—whose recorded…
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 … Acquisition information: Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 623. The United States Holocaust…
9. Mann and Schwarz families papers
2017.390.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.390.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2018
…Lazar Mann (1902-1991) was born in 1902 in Tarnów, Poland to George (1873-1929) and Rosa (née Keil, 1876-1930). He had one brother, Josef, and one…
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 …, Poland and Vienna, Austria. The first album depicts the families of Lazar Mann and Helene Schwarz from 1817-1918 and the second from 1927-1937. Included…
10. Selected records from the Polish State Archives Tarnów Branch
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0078 | RG Number: RG-15.020M
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1980
bulk: 1931-1945
… Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written…
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 … State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the…
11. Piera and Meyer Solender papers
1993.127 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1993.127
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1980
…Meyer (Majer) Solender (1919-1976) was born in Tarnów, Poland, survived five concentration camps including Mauthausen. He married Piera del Strologo…
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 …, Poland, survived five concentration camps including Mauthausen. He married Piera del Strologo in 1949, and they immigrated to the United States in 1950…
12. Oral history interview with Martin Spett
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0351 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0218
Date:
interview: 1989 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Martin Spett, born on December 2, 1928 in Tarnów, Poland, describes his childhood; the German occupation of Tarnów in 1939; his family losing their…
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 …,1989 Q: Martin, could you give us your full name please? A: Martin Spett. A: Where were you born, Martin? A: I was born in Tarnow, Poland. Q: In what year…
13. "Hidden in broad daylight"
Document | RG Number: RG-02.169
…Sara Getzler (b. Markovitz, Poland) emigrated to Palestine in July 1945…
14. Oral history interview with Samuel Goetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.16 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0016
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Samuel Goetz describes living in Tarnow, Poland; his Jewish family being assimilated into Polish society; Jews not being able to attend school; being…
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 … as an ll-year old boy in Tarnow (Southern Poland, near Cracow) and ranged from ghetto life and separation from parents through increasingly horrendous…
15. Oral history interview with Ida Hampel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.29 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0029
Date:
interview: 1996 January 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ida Hampel (née Scheuer), born in December 1914 in Tarnów, Poland, discusses her family, including her four sister and one brother; her father, who…
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 …Oral history interview with Ida Hampel RG-50.407.0029 Summary Ida Hampel (née Scheuer) Born: Tarnów, Poland, December 1914 Mother born in Bochnia…
16. Oral history interview with Adam Szus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.184 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0184
Date:
interview: 1992 February 14
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…
17. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…Alice (Ala) Fass (b. 1920) was born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, to Kalman Josef and Kyla (née Greenfeder) Fass. Alice had two sisters, Esther (Estera, 1918…
18. Oral history interview with Jack Gildar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.22 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0022
Date:
interview: 1985 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jack Gildar, born in Tarnowa, Poland, describes his the strong Jewish community in his town; his close, loving family; his father’s death; going at…
19. Oral history interview with Frances Kornmehl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.37 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0037
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fances Leder Kornmehl, born in 1925 in Tarnow, Poland, describes growing up in a Chassidic home; being the youngest of three sisters and two brothers…
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 … Poland, you were 19 years old. I 13 years old. 13 and 1/2 years old. 13. And what happened-- I was November born. In November I was born. And what happened…
20. Gendarmeriezug Tarnów (GK 693)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.55.1 | RG Number: RG-15.696
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Pluton Żandarmerii w Tarnowie
…AK-Home Army (Poland)…