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1. Oral history interview with Bernhard Ebstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.11 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0011
Date:
interview: 1986 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from the Joint Distribution Committee; the Jewish Committee of Southern Illinois suppling the affidavit for the rest of the family to go to the US…
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 … public swimming pool because they were Jewish. 3:00 In general, there was an explicit expression in the family that they had to behave in a very special…
2. Oral history interview with Charles Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0001
Date:
interview: 1991 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … the close nature of 5 brothers, father and mother; attending German public school, being one of 5 jewish students; the mounting of anti-jewish sentiment…
3. Oral history interview with David Danzyger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.9 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
4. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Lassers
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.38 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0038
Date:
interview: 1986 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Germany.…
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 …, and some friends turned away, even those who were half-Jewish. 7:50 Elizabeth’s family did not want to leave as they felt the difficult times could not…
5. Oral history interview with Erich Kulka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.126 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0126
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.…
6. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.7 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0007
Date:
interview: 1985 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland.…
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 … antisemitism that she did notice occurred when the non-Jewish domestic help that her family had hired left them. 0.06.16 Her family lived in a section of the…
7. Oral history interview with Hannah Kastan Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.184 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0184
Date:
interview: 1994 August 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Germany.…
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 … weekends when they were off of work; at age 4 ½, her parents deported late Feb 1943 Fabrikaktion; Hannah shares family stories handed down of how she was…
8. Oral history interview with Hanna Zwang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.82 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0082
Date:
interview: 1986 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
9. Oral history interview with Helen Meisels
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.44 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0044
Date:
interview: 1991 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Poland--Chmielnik.…
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 … sisters, one a widow with no children, brothers of her husband’s family prevented her from remarrying according to Jewish law; Helen’s family had some…
10. Oral history interview with Helga Franks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.19 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0019
Date:
interview: 1991 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
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 … Jewish books with them -- the rest of the family bringing only most favorite possessions -- the rest to be left behind. Knew to expect some trouble at the…
11. Oral history interview with Jules Wallerstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.181 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0181
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Germany.…
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 …-Bavaria, Germany; father, mother, sister were on Voyage of the St. Louis; Jules discusses his early childhood - Jules and non-Jewish friends had to part but…
12. Oral history interview with Lily Blayer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.5 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0005
Date:
interview: 1988 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… neighborhood and having Jewish and non-Jewish friends; her family and being raised Orthodox; the beginning of the war and the Hungarian occupation of their part…
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 … particularly Jewish neighborhood? LB: No, very mixed. EL: Was your family observant? LB: Yes, Orthodox. EL: How many were in your family? LB: Immediate family…
13. Oral history interview with Nathan Fox
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.15 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0015
Date:
interview: 1991 August 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
14. Oral history interview with Paula Birnbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.6 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0006
Date:
interview: 1986 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.…
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 … friendly non-Jewish neighbors, and many of her father's customers were friendly and not Jewish. 3:03 People fled Germany and went to Austria when Hitler came…
15. Oral history interview with Rodi Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.20 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0020
Date:
interview: 1991 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families.…
16. Oral history interview with Ruth Rontal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.47 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0047
Date:
interview: 1994 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish families--Germany.…
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 …/1920 Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, two sisters, parents from Austrian Empire, owned chain of stores; discussion on Esslingen’s Jewish life, included…