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1. Oral history interview with Ilse Sternberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.116 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilse Sternberger (née Naumann), born in 1914, discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); her assimilated family life; her…
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 … America, or in England, 443 00:25:48,890 --> 00:25:50,300 or Germany. 444 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is…
2. Oral history interview with Harry Sydel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.557 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0557
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Sydel (né Seidel), born on March 6, 1930 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses his family; Kristallnacht; the destruction of the…
3. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
4. Oral history interview with Eduard Galonska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.20 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0020
Date:
interview: 2001 July 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Interview Germany Documentation Project https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
5. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her…
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 … Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 no. 73 SUMMARY Lory Cahn1, nee Grünberger, was born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany into a religious home. Her father was a…
6. Oral history interview with Valentina Sukalo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.49 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0049
Date:
interview: 2008 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by policemen; her relocation to work in Germany; working in an ammunition factory; sabotaging the production and then escaping to Magdeburg to stay…
7. Oral history interview with Bernard Lewkowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.70 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bernard Lewkowicz, born in 1921 in Germany, discusses his early childhood; his parents who were Orthodox and from Poland originally; baking matzos in…
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 … Resource Center here in Buffalo. Our guest is Bernie Lewkowicz. Bernie, I understand that you were born in Germany. Will you tell us a little about your…
8. Oral history interview with Ilse Sternberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.77 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0077
Date:
interview: 1992 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilse Sternberger (née Naumann), born in 1914, discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); her assimilated family life; her…
9. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.101.2 a-b
Date:
issue: 1914 August 05-1918
received: after 1914 August 05-before 1918 November 11
…Germany…
10. Oral history interview with Klaus D
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.34 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0034
Date:
interview: 2004 May 25
interview: 2004 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Interview Germany Documentation Project https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
11. Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.110 | RG Number: RG-14.096M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1955
Alternate Title:
Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
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 … Gestapo Berlin Abteilung 710) from 1935 to 1937) 8 (3) Card indexes on concentration camps in Germany and the occupied territories 9 (4) Card index of the…
12. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.182 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0182
Date:
interview: 1994 March-1994 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…A Holocaust survivor, born in 1925 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses family; pre-war life; war experiences in Auschwitz…
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 … thinking that he'll be able to walk again. And unfortunately, all of this caused us never to get out of Germany in time. Because my father was too sick. In…
13. Oral history interview with Walter Borchheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.11 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0011
Date:
interview: 2010 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Borchheim, born in 1926 in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland), describes moving to Berlin, Germany in 1932, where he saw the rise…
14. Oral history interview with Guenter Lewy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.56.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0204
Date:
interview: 2013 March 18
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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 … Germany. 14 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:50,840 Now it's called Wroclaw, and it's part of Poland. 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,130 Let's talk a little bit about…
15. Oral history interview with Carl Weiler and Mina Weiler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.485.51 | RG Number: RG-90.150.0001
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… families in Germany, Switzerland and the United States before World War II and in Germany and Gurs internment camp in France during the war.…
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 … Kauffman*), provides names of maternal and paternal grandparents; born in Hainstadt, southern Germany in 1916; her father dying in the war; moving at age six…
16. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
…Fritz Weinschenk (1920-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany but left in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. He volunteered for the U.S. Army immediately…
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 … assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The case files contain correspondence, witness lists and testimony…
17. Mendowsky family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.352.1
… Martha Mendowsky during and after the Holocaust when they left Breslau, Germany, for the United States.…
18. Meinhardi, Strahl, and Stolze families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.232.1
… National Socialism and in postwar Germany. Also includes material related to the Meinhardi family, formerly of Germany, who immigrated to the United States…
19. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
…Hans Hirschfeld (born Naumann Hans Horst Hirschfeld; 1919-1969) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Alfred (1894-1953) and Maria…
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 ….337.1 Creator: Hirschfeld family (Breslau :Germany) Extent: 2.34 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
20. Oral history interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.53 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0053
Date:
interview: 1991 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, born in 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes her parents and her two older siblings; her educational…
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 … lessons. You were very young when war broke out. But did you have any conception as to whether or not Germany would win the war? No, I can't remember that I…
21. Heinz Gappe papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.52
…Breslau (Germany)…
22. Oral history interview with Ursula Falk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.17 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0017
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Adler Falk, born in the small spa Bad Mergentheim in Wurttemberg, Germany, describes her early childhood; her parents’ shoe store; moving to…
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 … called Bad Mergentheim in Southern Germany, Württemberg. And I lived there for the first four years of my life. My parents owned a shoe store there, right…
23. Dov Lieblein photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1939
… depict the Oschinsky family, Mr. Lieblein's late wife's family, in Breslau, Germany and later in Jerusalem as well as the driver's license of Dagobert…
24. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.119 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0119
Date:
interview: 1992 November 05
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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 … who wrote it didn’t know. Well, anyway he, said he never bothered with Jewish causes when the first time when they threw out the Jews from Germany in…
25. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Gerda Bikales (née Bierzonski b. 1931) was born in Breslau, Germany to Viktor (b. 1897) and Bronia (b. Bilma Lefkowitz in 1906) Bierzonski. Gerda had…
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 ….605.2 Creator: Bierzonski (Family: Breslau, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
26. Oral history interview with Hilde Sandelowsky and Otto Sandelowsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2021.95.1 | RG Number: RG-90.204.0001
Date:
interview: 1990
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
27. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
28. Oral history interview with Richard Shand
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.734 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0734
Date:
interview: 1994 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Mr. Shand's childhood in Breslau, Germany; his memories of the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; and the family…
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 … you born? I was born on the 26th of August, 1929, in Breslau, Germany. It's now Wroclaw in Poland. And what were your parents' names? My father's name…
29. Fritzler family papers
1998.104 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.104
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1959
…Walter Fritzler (b. 1881) was born in Arnsberg, Germany and attended school in 1939 to become a butler. He married Agnes Ephraim (1890-1959), born in…
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 …: Fritzler (Family : Breslau, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (7 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
30. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…Hedwig Hirschel (born Hedwig Küchler) was born on 28 May 1902 in Glogau Schlesien, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland) to Hirsch Leib and Elise (née…
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 …, her daughter Eva, her husband Max, and his son Horst in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) until 1940 and Shanghai, China from 1940-1947…
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31. Oral history interview with Werner Barasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.392 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0392
Date:
interview: 2001 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Barasch, born in May 1919 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a wealthy Jewish family; his father (Arthur), who…
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 … Summary: Werner Barasch was born into a wealthy Jewish family in May of 1919 in Breslau, Germany. His businessman father, Arthur, had founded the first mass…
32. Oral history interview with Henry Kronberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.5 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Kronberg, born in April 1920 in Breslau, Germany, describes growing up in Katowice, Poland; apprenticing as a young man in a material goods…
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 …Henry Kronberg for Virtual Book Henry Kronberg was born in April 1920 in Breslau, Germany but he grew up in Katowice, Poland. As a young man he was…
33. Oral history interview with Nellie Cesana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.803 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0803
Date:
interview: 1991 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Germany with other Polish volunteer workers under assumed identities. Ms. Cesana discusses her experiences in Germany on a farm where her mother…
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 … Polish. You will be the safest in the lion's mouth. And she said, what do you mean? He says, you will have to go to Germany. He says, we cannot survive in…
34. Vamos family papers
2017.335.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.335.1
Date:
inclusive: 1907-2013
…Arthur Vamos (born Artur Vámos, 1911-2006) was born on 19 February 1911 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Ludwig and Emma (née Fuchs, b…
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 …, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), as they emigrated from Germany to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 and to the United States in 1946. The collection includes…
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35. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
36. Oral history interview with Susanne M. Batzdorff
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.221 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0221
Date:
interview: 1994 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews describe Ms. Batzdorff's childhood in Breslau, Germany; her memories of the ascent to power of the Nazi Party in 1933; the effects of…
37. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
38. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
… Abraham (b. August 26, 1928). Jakob served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI and settled in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) after the war…
39. Oral history interview with Nathan Kornmehl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.38 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0038
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nathan Kornmehl, born 1923 in Cologne, Germany, describes his father being a Hebrew teacher and also selling linens and other household goods and his…
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 … Germany. And about my childhood, I was born in 1923. And like I say, when I was about 10 years old, Hitler came. So we still were in school. And by 1937, we…
40. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
41. Oral history interview with David Wolnerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.107.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0876
Date:
interview: 2016 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing prisoners being hanged and other atrocities in the camps; the death of his mother in Auschwitz; being sent to Oberammergau, Germany and then to…
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 …,930 --> 00:51:13,590 Same thing like Dr. Mengele, one of the best doctors 1365 00:51:13,590 --> 00:51:18,030 in the world, not just in Germany or something…
42. Oral history interview with Pepa Gold
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.4 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0004
Date:
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… return to Buczacz in July 1944; her move to Kraków, Poland, in July 1945; her time in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland), with two of her brothers from…
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 … we went to Germany. 782 00:30:12,250 --> 00:30:13,140 We were in Berlin. 783 00:30:13,140 --> 00:30:15,990 We came in '46 in Berlin. 784 00:30:15…
43. Oral history interview with Gerda Wolff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.98 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0098
Date:
interview: 2009 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gerda Wolff, born December 26, 1919 in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland), describes her family; her experiences at school; her parents…
44. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
…Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde (1877-1949) was born to Louis and Therese (nee Bab) Wilde in Meseritz-Stadt, Germany. He had three brothers, Max (1875…
45. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
46. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
47. Oral history interview with Walter Schnell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0323 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0206
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Schnell, born on April 16, 1904 in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland), describes his family and childhood; going to study crystal and…
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 … Schnell. And I was born on April 16, 1904. Q: OK. Where? A: In Strehlen. This is Silesia...is the province of Silesia in Germany. Q: Thank you. A: You…
48. Oral history interview with Joseph Welgreen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.98 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0098
Date:
interview: 1992 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his liberation at Bergen-Belsen; his journey to Hannover, Germany; the business he established there; and his immigration to the United States in 1947.…
49. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 …:01:07,340 Sometimes, this town was Germany. 20 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,220 Sometimes, it was Poland. 21 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:11,810 Now, it's just…
50. Oral history interview with Jocheved Kasher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.7 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0007
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… dying five days before liberation; being freed by the British; being taken to Belsen, Germany; meeting friends from her home town and living with them…