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1. Oral history interview with Dan Pavlovitch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.38 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0038
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interview: 1984 August 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… then Turkey; living as Christians in Turkey from 1943 until 1948; his mother working as a translator for the US consulate in Turkey; working at a YMCA…
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 … 1940, the Italian forces were having a very rough time in Greece. So the Germans wanted to send some forces down south through Yugoslavia, which at that…
2. Oral history interview with Leo Rzepka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.43 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0043
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interview: 1984 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Americans on May 5, 1945; going to Israel illegally; being intercepted by the British and spending 21 months in Cyprus; being able to go to Israel, where he…
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 … Cyprus. And you were there for how long actually? I was 21 months in Cyprus. That was in Cyprus. And we were staying there. I worked there. I make…
3. Oral history interview with Leon Faigenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.67 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0067
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interview: 1984 August 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, they not let the Jewish in. And they catch the Jews, they put them to Cyprus-- when they catch them. But this guy, he runs this boat. He was a Greece. He…
4. Oral history interview with Sally Pitluk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.108 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0108
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interview: 1984 August 08
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, there was that huge influx of people coming every day. There were people in 1943, for instance. There were people coming from Greece. There were people…
5. Oral history interview with Hilda Prooth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.39 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0039
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interview: 1984 December 27
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the communists against Franco. So they were in somewhere in Libya or somewhere. And when they were nearer to us, so they came first to us here, and…
6. Oral history interview with Ben Nebel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.104 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0104
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interview: 1984 July 18
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … he was assigned to Greece. His title was American Mission for Observing Greek Election. That was his title, I remember it was. Because it came in a…
7. Oral history interview with Larry Hersh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.80 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0080
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interview: 1984 August 13
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … to Cyprus. All right. And let me just interrupt you for a minute. Direct to the British in their own mouth. You went back. You told me that you…
8. Oral history interview with Olga Lebovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.87 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0087
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interview: 1985 January 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … I think from Greece it left, from Greece to Israel. And was watched. The British didn't let them come in. And they sank a few ships. But it wasn't his…
9. Oral history interview with Sam Teitelbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.127 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0127
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interview: 1984 November 12
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, you know. The English, you know, they didn't allow the Jews anymore into Israel, to Palestine. I suppose you're read about that, Cyprus and the all that…
10. Oral history interview with Celia Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.114 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0114
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interview: 1984 October 30
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … they transferred us to an English ship. And they took us to Cyprus. And Cyprus had two camps-- had a winter camp and had a summer camp. I was in the…
11. Oral history interview with Isador Malcmacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.96 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0096
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interview: 1984 October 29
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … was there. We just talk like they think. And everybody got a pass. We are Turkish Jews, Greece Jews. We going home. And we went to the train. And I…
12. Oral history interview with Wiera Goldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.75 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0075
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interview: 1984 August 22
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … boat to go to Israel. And they caught them, and they put them on Cyprus. And through Brazil, I got in touch with my aunt, who died-- this one. She went…
13. Oral history interview with Abraham Lerer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.89 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0089
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interview: 1984 December 18
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Belgium, and Italy. Some of them formed autonomous Jewish National units, Jewish partisans led by Jewish Commanders…
14. Oral history interview with Leslie Robicsek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.112 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0112
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interview: 1984 August 02
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … of the worst five days in my life because they were a few who were from Hungary who were friends. They were a few from Greece. They were a few from…
15. Oral history interview with Julia Simon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.121 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0121
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interview: 1984 September 04
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … to Israel. Not to Israel. They arrived to-- Cyprus? Cyprus. They arrived to Cyprus. And they had it very, very rough there. As a matter of fact, one…
16. Oral history interview with William McKee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.98 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0098
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interview: 1985 January 23
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Wiesenthal several years ago, I agreed that there was at least 22 nationalities there besides American prisoners of war that were going in and out of Syria. We…
17. Oral history interview with Werner Sauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.46 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0046
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interview: 1984 July 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …. At the same time, all those reporters who wrote for years daily about the president of Lebanon-- what is his name? Gemayel? Gemayel. They were all…
18. Oral history interview with Phillip Wexberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.83 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0083
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interview: 1984 August 15
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … concentration camp and then talk about it. That's right. Yes. A lot of people that you see here from Hungary and Romania and Greece that they went to the camp…
19. Oral history interview with Freda Schmelzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.47 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0047
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interview: 1984 July 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … turkey, beautiful, and fat goose for Yontif. And I had to wear my yellow star. So imagine that, the village already, Turulung, Terebes in Hungarian, was…
20. Oral history interview with Mark Moss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.102 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0102
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interview: 1984 September 13
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Cyprus, you know how many people were sent out from Cyprus? Well, you'll have to tell us how you got to Cyprus. Then you're on this barge in the…