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1. Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.275.1
…Gusti Shoval was born as Gitl Guta Klapholc on July 3, 1923 in Oświęcim, Poland to Chaim Jakub Klapholc (1890-1944) and Sabina Szajndl Rotenberg…
2. Oral history interview with Marko Moskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.5 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0005
Date:
interview: 1946 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Auschwitz; his transport from Auschwitz to work building a railroad station near Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland); his memories of Auschwitz…
3. Oral history interview with Bela Yehuda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.172 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0172
Date:
interview: 1993 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sent to the Baron Hirsch camp; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; working in a munitions factory; march to Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland); being taken…
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 … there for 6 months and then to the Baron Hirsch camp, and from there by train to Poland. Describes 15 day train ride. 6.12 Describes arrival in Birkenau…
4. Oral history interview with Clara Dan
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0019
Date:
interview: 1982 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
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
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
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 … the Red Cross. In 1943 Lory was sent to Auschwitz after a two week trip in a cattle car. She survived a selection by Dr. Mengele. She describes living…
6. Oral history interview with Fred Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… resident; his mother being placed in a camp in Budapest; being deported with local Jews to Auschwitz in June 1944; the selection; being sent to Dörnhau (now…
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 …, September 1st, the war broke out in Poland and after a few weeks – it didn’t last long – they started to send Jews to Poland. There were no camps set up yet…
7. Oral history interview with Lanka Ilkow
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0041
Date:
interview: 1991 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and living in Berezhany (Ukraine); the Hungarian annexation of parts of Slovakia and life under Hungarian rule; the deportation of her husband to Poland…
8. 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
…, Poland); being assigned to Auschwitz as a guard; serving on the ramp; working in the political department; his marriage in 1943; working in a factory after…
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 …, zu Ausschwitz oder zum Ausschwitzprozess kommen. Klaus D.: jaja Interviewer: Das werden wir dann berühren. Das ist die eine Vorbemerkung. Die zweite…
9. Oral history interview with Felicia Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.10 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0010
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Felicia Weingarten, born in Poland in 1926, discusses losing her entire family during the Holocaust; antisemitism in Poland; having two siblings; the…
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 … is germ warfare and atomic destruction. I was born in Poland in 1926. I am 56. I was in a middle class family. My father was a principal. It was…
10. 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
… evacuated. Alice and Samuel were force marched to Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland. The men and women were separated upon arrival, but Alice and Samuel…
11. 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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 …? SURCL: Where? In Breslau. That's today Poland. But it was then Germany. B-r-e-s-l- a-u. Breslau. INT: And where did his family live? SURCL: Whose family…
12. 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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 … up now. That's Poland-- That's America. England was very difficult. We tried to go to England-- very difficult. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
13. 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
… with a friend; her arrest and transfer to Auschwitz; work carrying cobblestones; the broad range of nationalities at Auschwitz-Birkenau; hearing the…
14. 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
… unskilled; lying about his age in Auschwitz; sometimes working near the ovens in Auschwitz; going to a camp near Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland) after six months…
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 …:01:28,690 Got it. 1603 01:01:28,690 --> 01:01:31,150 Auschwitz was occupied by Russian 1604 01:01:31,150 --> 01:01:37,030 because Auschwitz was Poland…
15. Oral history interview with Barbara Artman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0033
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
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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 … first cousins. 29 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:33,330 All 14 aunts and uncles perished in the ovens of Auschwitz, 30 00:01:33,330 --> 00:01:38,220 along with 12…
16. Oral history interview with Renee Tully
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.884 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0884
Date:
interview: 1991 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Renee Tully discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); her subsequent experiences in Berlin, Guatemala, and France; her…
17. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… Gross‐Strehlitz (now Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Kurt…
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 … Strzelce Opolskie, Poland). His narrative describes his and his twin brother’s survival at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. http://collections…
18. 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
…Jocheved Kasher (née Jadna Kusda), born in 1930 in Łódź, Poland, describes her parents, Chaya and Haimish Kusda, and her two sisters, Sara and Regina…
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 …RG-50.266 #07 YOCHEVED KASHER formerly Jadna Kusda Parents: Chaya and Haimish Kusda. Two sisters: Sara and Regina. I was born in 1930 in Lodz, Poland…
19. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
… aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex and files documenting Hans Buchheim’s expert testimony on the topic of duress. Please note that the files on…
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 … Buczacz, Poland Maywald, Gerhard Riga Ghetto Mengele, Josef Auschwitz Michalsen, Georg Old Airfield Camp at Lublin Nehring, Joachim Kamionka Strumilowa…
20. Oral history interview with Madeline Deutsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.388.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0060
Date:
interview: 1990 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… November 9, 1938; living under the Hungarians until March 1944 when the Germans invaded; living in a ghetto for two weeks until her transport to Auschwitz…
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 …. There were even some rumors that some USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0060 2 people escaped from Poland over to Hungary, and they were telling about some horror…