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1. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar
2013.474.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.2
Date:
use: 1947 October-1947 November
… family had perished in the Holocaust. Isaak sailed from Bremen on the SS Marine Flasher on October 29, 1947, arriving in New York on November 10. He…
2. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
… shop near the port. She once tried to smuggle in butter, but was caught. She convinced the SS officer not to execute her. Instead he shaved her head and…
3. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
2006.133.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j
Date:
received: approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
…. Grunia’s great uncle, Harry Marcus, agreed to sponsor the couple, and in February 1949, they immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Jumper…
4. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… forces. SS Einsatzgruppen units [mobile killing units], assisted by the local population, rounded up and shot thousands of Jewish Latvians who were unable…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the life and musical career of…
5. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
… many places. His uncle Robert was a locksmith for the SS and his aunt Else worked in the lumbermill and got them wood for heat. His uncle Hermann, an…
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 … prisoner and Holocaust survivor. Documents include papers related to his internment at Kaiserwald and Buchenwald including identification cards and…
6. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0510 | RG Number: RG-06.025
Date:
1939-1992
bulk: 1945-1947
… Security Services of the Russian Federation photocopied the records and presented them as a gift to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in…
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 … the Soviet Union, 1939-1992 (bulk dates 1945-1947) 1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding Aid RG-06 War Crimes Investigations and…
7. Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3
Date:
use: 1944 August 16-1945 April 11
…. Grunia’s great uncle, Harry Marcus, agreed to sponsor the couple, and in February 1949, they immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Marine Jumper…
8. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
… officials; documents created by resistance groups and CP organs that were captured by the Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan…
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 … Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan activities; the slave labor of Jews, Soviet POWs, and others; the collaboration of Polish and…
9. Oral history interview with Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1445 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1445
Date:
interview: 1983 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 …th 1945 tried 21 to to to get out at night because figured the way to go was 22 to sneak out through the guards. And there was an SS guard and 23 there was…
10. Oral history interview with Kurt Meyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.43 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0043
Date:
interview: 2004 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation…
11. Oral history interview with Gertrude Sonnenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.50 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0050
Date:
interview: 1989 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Latvia; participating in forced labor in Riga; the gassing and shooting of Jews who couldn't work by the Latvian SS; the establishment of a ghetto and an…
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 … SS came around and nobody should escape. 502 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,800 Nobody can escape if the bombs are falling down, believe me. 503 00:29:11…
12. Oral history interview with Michael Lin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.37 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0131
Date:
interview: 2000 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.…
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 …? They say they can find nothing wrong with him, but take a look. Just go through the list of ar -- RS command, and you will find all these SS…
13. Oral history interview with Julius Drabkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.279 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0279
Date:
interview: 1993 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma…
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 …This interview was recorded October 21 1980 for the Oral History Committee of the Holocaust Library and Research Center Associates of San Francisco…
14. Oral history interview with Hannah Rath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.21 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0021
Date:
interview: 2005 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with 24 Holocaust survivors and one retired U.S. Soldier.…
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 … 14, 2005 Holocaust Survivor • Born in 1922 and raised in a small town in Germany • In 1938, synagogues burned and Jewish businesses looted on…
15. Oral history interview with Sia Hertsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0393 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0041
Date:
interview: 1996 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… before World War II, life in the ghettos, life in concentration camps, and life after the Holocaust.…
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 … Gestapo in SS. And there was a workshop where they did something for the soldiers-- for the officers really, https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
16. Oral history interview with Walter Lachman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.64 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0064
Date:
interview: 1992 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to the United States on the S.S. Marlin; living in New York and Massachusetts; working as a stock boy; advancing in sales and becoming the president of…
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 …Interview with Walter Lachman July 31, 1992 Q: It’s July 31, and my name is Kevin Wayne, with the United States Holocaust Museum. I am here with…
17. Oral history interview with David Klebanow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0358 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0104
Date:
interview: 1989 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and ethnic backgrounds who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust…
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 … Memorial Museum. The interview took place in Washington, DC and is part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's collection of oral testimonies…
18. Oral history interview with Magda Herskowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.230.1 | RG Number: RG-50.940.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Robert Fried donated the oral history interview with Magda Herskowitz to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2016. The interview was…
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 … Mengele and Eichman with SS soldiers. Music was played to distract our minds. We were ordered to undress completely and our hair was shorn, even from the…
19. Oral history interview with Werner Sauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.46 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0046
Date:
interview: 1984 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews document the experiences of 136 Holocaust survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and former concentration camp liberators from the Cleveland…
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 … runner came through the finishing line, he was given a number. And when I asked for my number, the man who handed it out, who was, I knew, an SS man, a…
20. Oral history interview with Susan Taube
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0499
Date:
interview: 2015 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program…
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 …: Good morning and welcome to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. My name is Bill Benson, host of the museum's public program First Person. Thank…