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1. Oral history interview with Alice Bloomfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.756 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0756
Date:
interview: 2003 December 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alice Bloomfield discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her mother's death, followed by her father's remarriage; her education and work life…
2. Oral history interview with Howard Waldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.885 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0885
Date:
interview: 1995 March 17
interview: 1995 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Colombia--Emigration and immigration.…
3. Oral history interview with Inge Peebles
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.780 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0780
Date:
interview: 2003 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …. And she grew up in Berlin? In Berlin, yes, and her father and her two brothers had all served in the Prussian army. That was in World War I for Germany…
4. Oral history interview with Norbert Krasnosielski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.322 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0544
Date:
interview: 2009 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …, when we was closer to Berlin, being stronger and stronger, and they took already all the people to the army an-and – and too young, and too old, and too…
5. Oral history interview with Michael Pupa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.81.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0658
Date:
interview: 2010 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
6. Oral history interview with Bella Seligman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1472 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1472
Date:
interview: 2007 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bella Seligman discusses her infancy in Berlin, Germany; her family's immigration to Shanghai, China; her memories of her childhood in Shanghai; the…
7. Oral history interview with Joseph Eaton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.197 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0581
Date:
interview: 2010 May 27-2010 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … Germany, your name in Germany and why don’t you give us the names of your immediate family as well? Answer: All right. I was born as Joseph Wexler in…
8. Oral history interview with Henry Small
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.960 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0960
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … March 1914 in Berlin Germany. 11 was what they called an exemption for my father because 12 five months later the first world war started and my 13 father…
9. Oral history interview with Steffi Goodman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.273 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0273
Date:
interview: 1981 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
10. Bujakowski and Brager families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.513.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-1972
… Bujakowski (later Henry Adolph Boyer) and his family’s immigration to the United States from Berlin, Germany in 1938. Included are biographical and…
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 …’s immigration to the United States from Berlin, Germany in 1938. Included are biographical and identification documents, papers relating to Hans’s medical career…
11. Coat design, Mia, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.17
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Mia
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
12. Coat design, Culm, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.13
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Culm
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
13. Oral history interview with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.176.2 | RG Number: RG-50.928.0002
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lotte Grünfeld Heimann, born September 3, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her happy childhood in prewar Germany; her parents Leo (Eliezar) and…
14. Oral history interview with Margot Guthman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.31 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0031
Date:
interview: 2009 September 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Margot Guthman (née Miriam Levy Schapps), born in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany on October 23, 1923, describes her parents, Leo Levi and Mina Levi…
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 … the suburbs of Berlin, Germany, on October 23, 1923. Parents’ names were: Leo Levi and Mina Levi Shapps. Margot had a sister, four years older. They…
15. Oral history interview with Peretz Leshem
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.335 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0335
Date:
interview: 1998 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …:00 He describes life in Yagur. In 1929 he joined the Mapai (Labor) Party and was sent to Germany to be the director of the Hechalutz near Berlin. His…
16. Oral history interview with Ernie Glaser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1191 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1191
Date:
interview: 1984 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
17. Oral history interview with Marianne Rosenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.70 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0070
Date:
interview: 2010 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… men were sent to a concentration camp; her father avoiding the deportation and going to Berlin, Germany; her mother begging her father to leave Germany…
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 … return home. He left immediately for Berlin. She saw the police guarding her apartment. Mother had begged the father to leave Germany but he was…
18. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
… Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime…
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 …)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) Geography: Berlin (Germany) Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) United States--Emigration and immigration…
19. Werner Goldsmith papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.198 | RG Number: RG-10.424
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1989
…The collection contains photographs and documents. The first photograph was taken in Berlin, Germany, and depicts Werner Goldsmith at age 10. A few…
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 … and documents. The first photograph was taken in Berlin, Germany, and depicts Werner Goldsmith at age 10. A few months after this photograph was taken…
20. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…
21. Oral history interview with Israel Beresritzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.210 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0210
Date:
interview: 1995 March 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Breslau, Germany in April 1945; arriving in Berlin, Germany on May 3, 1945; being captured by Smersh investigators and escaping; being in jail for two and a…
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 … was tense, and children from Germany came to his camp in Poland because their parents sent them. 2.17.45 They talked about the situation in their house…
22. Oral history interview with Ezra Sherman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.57.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0750
Date:
interview: 2014 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … them, in Berlin, 1945. Q: So they – you met him when? What was the month and year you met him? You met him in ’44? When he came to the family farm…
23. Oral history interview with Ilse Eden
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.808 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0808
Date:
interview: 1990 January 21
interview: 1992 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … Summary: Ilse Eden was born in Berlin in 1928 and is the only child of Richard, a Jewish German lawyer, and Edith, a Jewish East German woman from a rural…
24. Oral history interview with Dieter Protsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.99.1 | RG Number: RG-50.692.0001
Date:
interview: 2011
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … immigrated, and mostly in Germany I was attending school in Berlin, and of course the basic education was German, English, French, and Latin, and later on when…
25. Under the Nazi regime, 1933-1938
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0351 | RG Number: RG-02.203
… Christian churches; antisemitism during the 1936 Berlin Olympics; author's emigration to Italy; Kristallnacht; and the death of members of the author's family.…
26. Oral history interview with Hennie Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.25 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0025
Date:
interview: 1981 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
27. Oral history interview with Kurt Riegner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.29.23 | RG Number: RG-50.590.0023
Date:
interview: 1985 May
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kurt Riegner, born in 1912 in Berlin, Germany, describes his well-to-do parents and his sister; finishing primary and secondary school in Germany and…
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 …. It was clear to Kurt that they needed to emigrate. The sentiment of his family and of the majority of the Jewish community in Germany was that this…
28. Bernard Frum papers
1994.A.0136 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0136 | RG Number: RG-10.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1960
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Bernard Frum (b. Bernhard, 1914-1975) was born in Berlin, Germany to Gershon (1878-c.1944) and Lea Frum (née Polinkowsky, 1877-c.1944) and had two…
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 …)--Personal narratives. Jewish musician. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Berlin (Germany) Shanghai (China) United States--Emigration and immigration--History…
29. Oral history interview with Margot Krisch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.100 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0100
Date:
interview: 1995 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …. So I had, until I was eight years old, I had a very wonderful memory of Berlin and Germany because- INT: What was your life like then? MARGOT: My life…
30. Oral history interview with Max Wagner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.173 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0173
Date:
interview: 1996 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Max Wagner, a Holocaust survivor, born in 1915 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Orthodox background and his belief in God; fleeing Germany for…
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 … another family from Berlin were the first immigrants to be processed for immigration under the extended and revised DP Act, and the immigration officers in…
31. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…Robert Frankenthal was born in Berlin in 1930 to Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal. His family immigrated to the United States in 1938 and settled in…
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 …. Jewish refugees‐‐New York (State). United States‐‐Emigration and Immigration‐‐History‐‐20th century. Berlin (Germany) Moisling (Lübeck, Germany…
32. Oral history interview with Ilse Steirman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.364 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0364
Date:
interview: 2001 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ilse Steirman discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her father's personal identification as German; and her memories of Kristallnacht in…
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 … born in and the country? 17 00:01:28,780 --> 00:01:31,584 Berlin, Germany. 18 00:01:31,584 --> 00:01:32,560 OK. 19 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,840 And your…
33. Oral history interview with Gerald L. Liebenau
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0257
Date:
interview: 2009 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
34. canceled British postage stamp acquired by a German Jewish refugee
1990.114.73 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.114.73
Date:
received: approximately 1941 August 27
issue: 1937-1941
… in prewar Berlin, Germany, during World War II in Shanghai, China, where Carl and Elsa Victor passed away, and then to Peter after the war in Shanghai…
35. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
36. Oral history interview with Eva Angress
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.390 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0390
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … your child hood when you were born and where you were born. A. Well will be happy to do that. was 10 born in August 1921 in Berlin in part of the…
37. Oral history interview with Rabbi Theodore Alexander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.508 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0508
Date:
interview: 2002 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rabbi Theodore (Ted) Alexander discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his family life and Jewish education; his memories of anti-Semitism and…
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 …. And Berlin has now again 12,000 Jews in the Jewish community, and we brought a show of support. We had a kosher lunch with the president of Germany…
38. Shames family collection
2018.649.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.649.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1948
…), Siberia, Berlin, Germany, Israel, and the United States. Includes two photographs of the family on a ship during their immigration to the United States…
39. Eckdish family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.292.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1950
…The Eckdish family papers include correspondence and immigration documents relating to Paul Eckdish and his family's experience emigrating from…
40. Oral history interview with Fred D. Heim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.39 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0039
Date:
interview: 1982 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fred Dagobert Heim, born November 13, 1930 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his family’s background; his childhood and education; being beaten up by…
41. Oral history interview with William Link
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.50 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0050
Date:
interview: 1984 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…William Link (né Wilhelm Link), born June 30, 1905 in Berlin, Germany, describes his family’s Hungarian background; his childhood and education…
42. Oral history interview with Dorothy Isaacsohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.709 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0709
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; bombing at war's end; living under Soviet occupation from December 1944 to May 1945; living in Berlin after the war; and immigrating to the United States in…
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 … about your, about Berlin and... DI: Well, I don’t remember much because I was born in 1933. So that was with the beginning of Hitler. I really don…
43. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0459
Date:
interview: 2014 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …nd birthday in March. He lived the first 20 years of his life in the city of Berlin, which is circled on this map of Germany. In 1942, Bob was arrested because…
44. Striped black coatdress with belt made by a German Jewish woman
2002.474.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.3 a-b
Date:
creation: approximately 1938
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
45. Oral history interview with Solomon Klug
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.360.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0109
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Israel--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … Germany, not far from one of them camps--Pölitz--what I was. So I went over there a few times to look at it after. And then I went to Berlin, met my wife. Q…
46. Oral history interview with Guenter Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.222 | RG Number: RG-90.063.0222
Date:
interview: 2009 September 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…China--Emigration and immigration.…
47. Oral history interview with Simcha Byalovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.27 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0027
Date:
interview: 1992 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… antisemitism in Poland; moving to Berlin, Germany and then Heidenheim, Germany; immigrating to Israel; and his testimony in war crimes trials for Wagner and…
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 … liberation. He got married there. 3.53 He went to Berlin and from there to Heidenheim; lived there for 2-3 years until he went to Israel. Tape 2 of 2 4…
48. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.119 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0119
Date:
interview: 1992 November 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
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 … emigrate to Palestine at that time.. He felt that he wants to give us education and save enough money. Because in order to go to Palestine, you needed at…
49. Oral history interview with Ingrid Gallin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.249 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0249
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…China--Emigration and immigration.…
50. Oral history interview with Julian Reuter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.409.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0259
Date:
interview: 2016 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julian Reuter (born on December 21, 1926 in Berlin, Germany) discusses his childhood in his religious family; his older brother Wolfgang and older…
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 … you were born with? Is that the name you were born with? Yeah. Yes, and where were you born, and when were you born? I was born in Berlin, Germany in…