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1. Solly Border diploma
2014.490.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2014.490.13
Date:
creation: 1957
… his family survived Nazi persecution in Romania during World War II. He studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University in Iași, Romania and…
2. Bernhard Wiesenfeld papers
2015.602.1 Box 3 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1946
… Jaroslaw, Poland before moving to Vienna, Austria. He studied to be an inventor and mechanical engineer at the Vienna University of Technology. During his…
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 …, photographs, and papers related to the engineering career of Bernhard Wiesenfeld (1907-1994) in Vienna, Austria and his status as a refugee in the Kitchener…
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3. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
… two Jews admitted to the Technical University of Hannover in 1936 to study engineering. In 1937 he received a letter from Otto Toeplitz, a recently…
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 … fraternity at the University of Nebraska, his studies at the University of Nebraska and the Illinois Institute of Technology, his engineering career, his…
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4. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.20
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Hurlach
… Engineers of the 12th United States Armored Division and participated in the liberation of Hurlach, one of the Landsberg/Kaufering group of Dachau subcamps.…
5. Greif family papers
2014.490.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.490.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-2009
bulk: 1925-1980
…, Maximilian (1912-1980). In the early 1920s, the Greifs moved to Romania. Ignacy went to Bucharest, Romania in 1939 to study electro-mechanical engineering…
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 … Korn) of Romania. Included are pre-war photographs of the Greif and Korn families in Romania; post-war documents relating to Ignacy and Izi’s engineering…
6. Norman Coulson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.544.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2013
…Consists of photographs, identity cards, and a clipping from the collection of Norman Coulson, a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who was…
7. Oral history interview with Stefan Kucharek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.6 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0006
Date:
interview: 1998 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stefan Kucharek, born in Małkinia, Poland in 1922, discusses Małkinia's prewar Jewish community; training as a train engineer in 1939 to avoid forced…
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 … mixed Polish and Jewish population of Małkinia before the war. He recalls that during the Second World War he worked as a train engineer in Małkinia and…
8. Oral history interview with Klaas Lub
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.587 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0027
Date:
interview: 2005 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forces; becoming an engine driver in-training with the Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen); the behavior of the Germans during the first few years of…
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 … Railways. He saw train full of Jews on their way to Westerbork. He was assistant engineer on one train to Westerbork. Tape 1 of 2 0 Born 31 August 1919 in…
9. Yehuda Avisar papers
2012.469.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.469.13
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
…Yehuda Avisar (1899-1950) was born Yehuda Kodlowski and spent his youth in Dnipropetrovsk. He was a civil engineer, worked in a Zionist underground…
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 … documenting Avisar’s activities as a Company Sergeant Major (CSM) in the 1st Camouflage Company of the Royal Engineers, Central Mediterranean Forces (CMF), and…
10. Oral history interview with Hans Meier
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0155
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Meier, born on March 9, 1902 in Zurich, Switzerland, describes his family; working as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the…
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 … off than his family. And he wished to...to put me higher even, and he gave me the opportunity to study electrical engineering at the University of…
11. Oral history interview with Jaques Strumza
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.154 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0154
Date:
interview: 1991 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jacques (Ya'akov) Strumza, born in 1913, in Saloniki (Thessaloniki), Greece, describes his family; studying electrical engineering in Paris, France…
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 … accompaniment for those being sent to their deaths. An engineer in the munitions factory in Auschwitz. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
12. Oral history interview with Girsh Mendelevich Kantor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.1 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and his life in Minsk as an engineer in a shoe factory; the German bombing of Minsk in June 1941; the establishment of the Minsk ghetto; moving to a…
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 … factory director. Another brother became engineer, third brother a teacher. Girsh went to Moscow to study until 1938. One older brother drafted in 1938 and…
13. Oral history interview with William Loew
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0006
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the American Company for Electronics, installing antennas and repairing televisions; attending the New York College of Engineering and receiving a…
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 … basically the engineering college in Munich. I passed that and they took me in and from _________ to Munich was a train and it was __________ there while I…
14. Oral history interview with George Denes
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.69 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0069
Date:
interview: 1992 July 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the university because he attended a religious high school; befriending the head of the university's engineering department and being accepted the…
15. Oral history interview with Hugo Langshur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.73.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0239
Date:
interview: 2015 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Nigeria, Naples (Itlay), and Graz (Austria); working as a mechanical engineer in a workshop; being transferred to northern Germany and being demobilized in…
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 … engineering. And so once, in England there were two ways of doing this. Either you went to a university and you went through and you got your bachelor of…
16. Tartière family papers
1988.93 Box 2 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.93
Date:
interview: 1920-1950
…th Engineers Combat Battalion. Raymond Tartière’s son from a previous marriage, Jacques Tartière (1915-1941), was an actor (screen name Jacques Terrane) in…
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 … War II with the 1269th Engineers C Brigade and visit to Dachau concentration camp after liberation; Jacques Tartière’s acting career in Paris before…
17. Oral history interview with Mieczyslaw Madejski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.42 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0074
Date:
interview: 2004 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… unusual circumstance of having been declared dead due to mistaken identity; belonging to a Polish veterans’ group; how his studies in mechanical engineering…
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 … of having been declared dead due to mistaken identity; belonging to Aspika, a Polish veterans’ group; his studies in mechanical engineering at the…
18. Oral history interview with Johanna Braunsdorf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.3 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0003
Date:
interview: 1999 January 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Paris, France; being an engineer from 1933 to 1942 at the Siemens Electrical Tube Factory (Röhrenwerk) in Berlin; moving with her family to…
19. Oral history interview with Paul A. Strassmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.46 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0076
Date:
interview: 2004 January 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… civil engineer and meeting his wife while in school; raising his children to make their own choices regarding religion; the personal successes of his…
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 … most serious disease I ever had was -- I -- I don’t think I mentioned it, but in 1949, I went to Cooper Union, the ci-civil engineering course, you know…
20. Oral history interview with Stefan Kirsz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.12 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0012
Date:
interview: 1998 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Belżec in 1940; training as an engine driver for trains; driving trains along the Belżec to Rawa-Ruska line; transporting prisoners to the Belżec killing…
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 … course for steam engine drivers in Lvov, where he was sent by the head of the station, Berezowski, he started working as a steam engine driver; he mentions…