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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 Stanisława Gałek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.104 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0104
Date:
interview: 1999 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisława Gałek, born in Tarnów, Poland, describes the prewar Jewish community of Tarnów; the beginning of the war; the local Jewish ghetto; the…
4. Oral history interview with Eugeniusz Łabno
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.103 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0103
Date:
interview: 1999 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eugeniusz Łabno, born in 1922 in Skrzyszow, Poland, describes the prewar Jewish community of Skrzyszow; cruelties committed by Gestapo and SS forces…
5. American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1992.28
…The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors photographs consists of 21 photographs, primarily post-liberation images of Jews in Poland, exhuming…
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 … within the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland. A child sits on the ruins of a building and a man is seen wearing a Star of David armband. The photograph is one of a…
6. 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…
7. Oral history interview with Erna Elerat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.35 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0035
Date:
interview: 1993 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erna Elerat, born September 1920 in Oświęcim, Poland, recounts her large family's affluence; summering in mountain resorts; participating in Betar…
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 … regarding exterminations were believed. Describes meeting Obersturmfuehrer Lindner who was in charge of all of the Jewish camps in occupied Poland. She was…
8. Oral history interview with Zofia Smorug
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.105 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0105
Date:
interview: 1999 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zofia Smorug, born in 1923 in Szczurowa, Poland, describes her education and work in Tarnów, Poland; the prewar Jewish community of Tarnów; the cruel…
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 … whole family. That…somehow it was possible for him to run away, that Wilsztain [Weltstein?] and that he apparently came here to Poland and that somebody…
9. 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.…
10. 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…
11. Oral history interview with Franciszek Pyrka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.63 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0063
Date:
interview: 1998 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Franciszek Pytka, born in Nieciecza, Poland near Tarnów, in 1930, discusses hiding a Jewish woman and her son throughout the war; the beatings of…
12. Gina Rappaport memoir
2010.50 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2010.50 | RG Number: RG-02.251
Date:
inclusive: 1939 December-1945 April
…Gina Rappaport (later Leitersdorf, 1921-2012) was living with her family in Kraków, Poland, when Germany invaded in September 1939. Gina and her…
13. Oral history interview with Leah Hammerstein Silverstein
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0363
Date:
interview: 1996 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leah Hammerstein Silverstein, born on April 10, 1924 in Praga, Poland, describes participating in the Zionist scout group Hashomer Hatzair; the…
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 … moment for me because high school in pre-war Poland was not free. You had to pay for it. I didn't have the money to pay for the tuition so I enrolled in a…
14. Document collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.257.1
…Warsaw Ghetto (Warsaw, Poland)…
15. Prokuratura przy Sądzie Okręgowym w Krakowie (Sygn. 2240)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.89.1 | RG Number: RG-15.595
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1939
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Prosecutors Office at the District Court in Kraków
… 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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 …, distribution of communist literature, slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, participation in a communist…
16. Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ) (Sygn. 325)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.272.1 | RG Number: RG-15.627
Date:
inclusive: 1950-1964
Alternate Title:
Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland
…Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland…
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 …Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ) (Sygn. 325) Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland RG-15.627 United States Holocaust…
17. Akta więzienne osób skazanych za działalność komunistyczną (Sygn. 1508)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.187.1 | RG Number: RG-15.808
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1939
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Prison records of persons convicted of communist activities
… Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written…
18. Oral history interview with Stanley and Michalina Oskwarek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.177.1 | RG Number: RG-90.256.0001
Date:
interview: 2002
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… begins his testimony. Joshua Oskwarek's grandparents Stanley Joseph Oskwarek and Michalina Oskwarek grew up near Krakow Poland right before WWII. They…
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 …Stanley Joseph Oskwarek and Michalina Mitusinski were a married couple who lived in Poland during World War II. Stanley was born on May 31, 1919 in…
19. Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Sygn. 303/VII)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.56.1 | RG Number: RG-15.584M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1950
Alternate Title:
Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department
…Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department…
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 …Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Sygn. 303/VII) Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department RG-15…
20. Obwieszczenia i zarządzenia władz okupacynych (Sygn. 241)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.142 | RG Number: RG-15.149
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Announcements and orders
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Poland, Sygn.241. The United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 ….ushmm.org Ringelbluma, Poland. Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This…
21. 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…
22. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 222P
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1810 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1810
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zbylitowska Góra (Poland)…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Krakau (GK 903)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.63.1 | RG Number: RG-15.704
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Słuzby Bezpieczeństwa dla Dystryktu Krakowskiego
…World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Kraków.…
26. 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…
27. 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…
28. 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…
29. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.369 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0066
Date:
interview: 2000 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julian Noga, born July 31, 1921 in Poland, discusses his parents’ pre-war life in the United States; his mother’s decision to move to Poland after…
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 …Julian Noga discusses his parents’ prewar life in the United States; his mother’s decision to move to Poland after World War I; growing up in Poland…
30. Amos Lavyel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.470.1
Date:
circa 1933-1947
…Created or acquired by Amos Lavyel [Marcus Leibel] (donor's husband) during World War II in Poland, Italy, Palestine. Donated to the United States…
31. 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…
32. "Hidden in broad daylight"
Document | RG Number: RG-02.169
…Sara Getzler (b. Markovitz, Poland) emigrated to Palestine in July 1945…
33. Conversation between Florence Koch and Helen Paktor, Chaya Roth and Charlotte Farkas, and Mary Ishakis and Abraham Negrin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.2104 | RG Number: RG-90.063.2104
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tarnów (Województwo Malopolskie, Poland)…
34. Gubernator Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w Polsce (GK 95)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.29.1 | RG Number: RG-15.671
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Generalgouverneur in Polen
…Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after…
35. Igo Krischer papers
2016.152.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.152.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-circa 1984
…Igo Krischer (born Baruch Krischer, 1906-1993) was born in Tarnów, Poland to Moishe Fishman and Idel Krischer. He had at least four sisters, Regina…
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 … Accession number: 2016.152.1 Creator: Krischer, Igo (Tarnów :Poland) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
36. 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…
37. 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…
38. Regierung des Generalgouvernements (Sygn. 111)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.345.1 | RG Number: RG-15.493
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Rząd Generalnego Gubernatorstwa
General Government
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Rz?d Generalnego Gubernatorstwa (Poland)…
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 … (Poland) Accession Number: 2016.345.1 Record Group Number: RG-15.493 Extent: 50,779 digital images: PDF (22.2 GB) Repository: United States Holocaust…
39. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.88 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0088
Date:
interview: 1987 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Norman Salsitz (né Naftali Salsitz), born in 1920 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, describes his childhood; antisemitism in secular school; his religious…
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 … accuracy. 105 00:06:06,820 --> 00:06:10,770 I was a very big Polish patriot. 106 00:06:10,770 --> 00:06:16,720 Because I said, if I live in Poland, I want to…
40. Oral history interview with Stella Madej
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.16 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0016
Date:
interview: 1995 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project…
41. Oral history interview with Peska Verolska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0051.14 | RG Number: RG-50.308.0014
Date:
interview: 1987 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
42. 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…
43. Drucker family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.200.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Consists of correspondence sent to Max Sukman in Chicago, IL, primarily from the Drucker family, his wife Adele's family, in Berlin, Tarnów, Poland…
44. 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…
45. Oral history interview with Julian Noga
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0171
Date:
interview: 1990 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julian Noga, born in 1921 in Skrzynka, Poland, describes growing up in a Catholic family; moving from Skrzynka to Tarnow, Poland to train to be a…
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 … of birth and your place of birth? A: Yes. ____. Julian Noga. I was born in Poland but actually my life starts in this country, United States. In 1921…
46. Oral history interview with Uziel Lichtenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.90 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0090
Date:
interview: 1990 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Uziel Lichtenberg, born February 1916, discusses his Jewish family’s history in Poland; his family moving to Łódź, Poland in 1929; joining the Polish…
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 … Poland on the border of Eastern Prussia. There were 6,000 inhabitants, half of them Jewish. Main occupation: smuggling, tobacco mainly, through the border…
47. 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…
48. 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…
49. Oral history interview with Jan Preiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.67 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0067
Date:
interview: 1998 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jan Preiss, born in Brzesko, Poland in 1922, discusses moving to Tarnów, Poland in 1940; the killing of a Jewish child; and his father’s death in…
50. Deutsche Strafanstalt Reichshof (Rzeszów) records (Sygn.110)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0069 | RG Number: RG-15.024M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
…Deutsche Strafanstalt Reichshof (Rzeszo?w, Poland)…
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 …) (Sygn. 110) Dates: 1940-1944 RG Number: RG-15.024M Accession Number: 1993.A.0069 Creator: Deutsche Strafanstalt Reichshof (Rzeszów, Poland) Extent: 2…