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1. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
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 … Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
2. Oral history interview with Faye Szander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1276
Date:
interview: 1986 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, mother and young son; being sent to the Kaiserwald labor camp in Riga, Latvia; her grief at losing her son and mother to certain death; her experiences in…
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 … stayed in the nighttime to go back to 24 Kaz-avot to the concentration camp. Afterward we call it the 25 Kazameeot. So its made that we had to stay there…
3. Oral history interview with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0197
Date:
interview: 1989 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing her mother die from hunger; her sister's death in the camp; difficult memories including mass rape of camp inmates, forced labor, and struggling to…
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 … my father. And soon, there was, uh, and soon there was the ghetto. If I remember very well, the scene of the death of my father was that my mother…
4. Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by the British Army; working in a children's camp in Bergen-Belsen after liberation; serving as a witness at war crimes trials; and…
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 … sadistic commanders. 8.39 Prepares Chanuka celebration in camp. 9.02 She is taken by train to Bergen Belsen, describes camp and then liberation 6 of April by…
5. Oral history interview with Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… stayed from August 1944 to March 1945; going on a death march; her liberation in Lauenburg, Germany on March 10, 1945 by the Russian Army; and her…
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 … camp any more, it was only concentration camp. And the death rate was very big, of course, very high. And crazy things, crazy things there. Even in…
6. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.523 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0523
Date:
interview: 1981 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being deported to a series of camps in Estonia, including Vaivara; liberation on September 22, 1944; returning to Vilna in November 1944 where he worked…
7. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being deported to a series of camps in Estonia, including Vaivara; liberation on September 22, 1944; returning to Vilna in November 1944 where he worked…
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 … where they burnt to death. Upon liberation, Mr. Shnaper returned to Vilna and reunited with Abba Kovner. Money was being sent from the American Joint…
8. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.84 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); learning Yiddish in the ghetto; her mother's death from cancer in 1939; moving from Vilna to Soły (Salos), Lithuania; the 1943 liquidation of the ghetto in…
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 … the ghetto in Soły [Salos] was liquidated and she was sent with her sister to the labor camp Dünawerke and her father was sent to the Kaiserwald…
9. Oral history interview with Zhenja Gurevich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286
Date:
interview: 1996 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … Germans in Svencionys. 1:29:36 All the town Jews were moved to a former Polish military camp in Poligon. 2:05:12 Zhenya’s mother manages to remove Zhenya…
10. Presentation by Shep Zitler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.4 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0004
Date:
interview: 1998 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
11. Oral history interview with Shep Zitler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.10 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0010
Date:
interview: 2004 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
12. Oral history interview with Yaakov Freimark
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.42 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0042
Date:
interview: 1993 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camp--Liberation.…
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 ….55] He talks about the gypsy camp in Auschwitz and their extermination. Describes Mengele's experiments with children. He was assisted by two Jewish…
13. Oral history interview with Philip Maisel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.82.2.5 | RG Number: RG-50.810.0005
Date:
interview: 2015
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of research material gathered by Diana Mara Henry related to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Includes oral history interviews…
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 … Cruelty--Kapos, French, Russian Concentration camp - Communist underground Concentration camp--Death march Concentration camp- ethics and solidarity…
14. Oral history interview with Selma Blick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.940 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0940
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her mother were confined to the Vilna Ghetto in 1941; her transfer to and experiences in the Kaiserwald-Riga work camp in Latvia; her experiences on a…
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 … work camp of Kaiserwald-Riga, where she worked on motor cables and switches. She and her mother were moved to Torinth, Poland to an underground "fortress…
15. Oral history interview with Chana Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp in 1945; being severely hurt by the rifle butt of an SS man; liberation and having difficulty eating; being the only survivor of her 100…
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 … potatoes, and thrown out from the camp in the two miles I used to run to take the three potatoes for my baby. Was two miles you ran? Two miles. To your baby…
16. Oral history interview with Mira Warbin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.165 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0165
Date:
interview: 1993 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; antisemitism among partisan groups; arriving in Kazan, Russia; a camp in Kazan, Russia; the liberation of concentration camps; activities with the avengers group…
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 … death in a concentration camp in Estonia, in a human pyre 6 hours before liberation. The camp was Kloea. 18.00 The fruitless search for her cousin. 23…
17. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0150
Date:
interview: 1990 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a labor camp in Stuttgart, Germany; going on a death march in late January or early February of 1945; going to sleep in a barn in eastern Prussia on…
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 … surprised. Q: Can you tell us. Let's...let's move forward a little bit if you could. A Yes. Q: Can you tell us what happened now? After your mother's death…
18. Oral history interview with Arie Troitze
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.235 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0235
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Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; joining Polish non-Jewish prisoners upon emerging; liberation by United States troops; working as a translator for the Soviets; participating in arrests of…
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 … transferred to Vilnius, where he lived in an orphanage. He was then transferred by train to a forced labor camp in Estonia, and later he was transferred by boat…
19. Oral history interview with Daniel Avidar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.238 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0238
Date:
interview: 1995 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Schichau-Werke shipyard; smuggling potatoes back to camp to share with others; a German helping him avoid a fatal beating; a death march in January…
20. Oral history interview with Gidon Arye
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0326 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0009
Date:
interview: 1989 July 11
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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 … a private, Polish‐speaking Jewish school as well as Jewish summer camps, not all of which were Zionist. Until the Germans entered Vilna in June…