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1. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
… Committee. Photographs include images of survivors and camp conditions at the Ebensee concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his…
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 … concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his family. Printed materials include a 1945 issue of Die Mitteilungen announcing Germany…
2. Bernard Blustein memoir
1995.A.0690 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0690
Date:
inclusive: 1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Bernard’s family and work life in Belarus, efforts to evade capture, assignments as a forced laborer, living conditions in the camps, and details of death…
3. Oral history interview with Marianne Windholm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.521 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0503
Date:
interview: 2005 November 18
interview: 2005 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from her husband at the selection and his death; her time in Auschwitz and her liberation in January 1945 by the Soviet Army; her fear of being sent to…
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 … you would be sent to Auschwitz? Or perhaps to somewhere else? A: No, we -- to a concentration camp, I did not know Auschwitz. To a concentration camp. Q…
4. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
…), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his attempts to rebuild his life in Vienna; and his…
5. Oral history interview with Ernest Kolben
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0007
Date:
interview: 1994 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… September 1944; volunteering to move to Buchenwald; arriving instead at Kaufering, near Dachau; being force marched to Camp Allach; liberation by American…
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 … from Kaufering to Camp Allach. saw people hung, people on wires with potatoes in their mouths April 30, 1945 - freed from Allach, had typhus Went to…
6. Oral history interview with Karl Stojka
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0226
Date:
interview: 1992 April 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the Roma camp in Birkenau in August 1944; going, with his brother, to the Roma camp in Buchenwald and then to Flossenbürg; joining the death march…
7. Oral history interview with Irene Greenfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.3 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0003
Date:
interview: 2011 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… briefly; being forced to send false letters to friends and family; witnessing death; a visit by the Red Cross to the camp; liberation by Russian troops…
8. Oral history interview with Zvi Azaria
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.5 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0005
Date:
interview: 1993 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the army in Macedonia for six months; bombings in 1940; being taken by train to a camp near Nuremburg, Germany; organizing religious life and cycles in…
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 … from killing German villagers. 2.21 Describes liberation. 2.27 When Germans retook the area he escaped to British camp in Nienburg. He heard about the…
9. Oral history interview with Ernest Koenig
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0112
Date:
interview: 1991 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… death march from Blechhammer by hiding in a storage barrack until he was liberated by the Russians in January 1945; being sent to a repatriation camp in…
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 … concentration camp. It wasn't that they were beaten to death. There were some were beaten to death, but it was the work which finished them. Q: When you say that…
10. Oral history interview with Zundel Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.304 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0304
Date:
interview: 1996 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
11. Oral history interview with Renee Scheuer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0218 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0439
Date:
interview: 1996 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … of the Belgian resistance, it was a train going to the death camps that was stopped. A: No. Q: I'm just . . . A: I didn't tell it. Q: No, no, you didn…
12. Oral history interview with Ava Dorfman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0317
Date:
interview: 1995 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 …. Ava Mueller. And I remember that one of the German Gestapo people when I came to concentration camp asked me, you could not be Jewish because my name is…
13. Oral history interview with Yehoshua Shachar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.135 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0135
Date:
interview: 1991 May
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Mauthausen; conditions in the camp; Kapos; being sent on a truck to Gunskirchen; liberation by Americans; escaping the camp when Russians took over and he…
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 … prisoners-of-war camp in Egypt, in detail..... 3.03 Liberation, return to Nitzanim and its rebuilding and rehabilitation...3.41 Some reflections on survival…
14. Oral history interview with Friedel Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0032
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … (Children’s Help Society) in Bern, and the next day, they sent her to work at the French camp, Rivesaltes. The camp had 12,000 inmates: half were Jews, and…
15. Oral history interview with Mordechai Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.168 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0168
Date:
interview: 1993 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … restrictions, then creation of a ghetto. All Jewish businesses confiscated, as well as homes. 1.32 April 1943 - young Jews were sent to labor camps. Last time he…
16. Oral history interview with Sara Schreiber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.384 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0384
Date:
interview: 2000 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for extra food, which she shared with her sister and friends; a death march in January 1945; helping her sister walk; liberation by Soviet troops; her…
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 … of the Jews came through a couple of refugees who managed to escape a concentration camp. For the most part, they were not believed. Sara then…
17. Oral history interview with Paul Benedek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.214 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0214
Date:
interview: 1995 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …, including father, were taken to work camps. 1.35 How his family managed in a village without men and what they knew about the general situation. 1.48 May 1944…
18. Oral history interview with Walter Reichmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.125 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0125
Date:
interview: 1991 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); moving to Pechov; the anti-Jewish laws in 1939; camp Patrouka; being caught in 1939, jailed, and enlisting in the Slovakian Army; being sent to Camp Zohor…
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 … in Auschwitz. 6.12 Death march from the camp. 6.22 Describes his escape from the march back to Slovakia. IV 7.11 He joins a Russian partisan group in…
19. Oral history interview with Lonia Mosak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0298 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0045
Date:
interview: 1999 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lonia Mosak discusses her experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz; an uprising in Auschwitz-Birkenau; her liberation from the camp; returning to…
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 … Lonia Mosak discusses her experience as a prisoner in Auschwitz; an uprising in Auschwitz Birkenau; her liberation from the camp; returning to…
20. Oral history interview with Hans Heimann
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0091
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … Joint Distribution Committee. Q: What was the shock? A: The big shock was uh when we saw people coming from the camps, from the infamous death camps…