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551. Oral history interview with Vjacheslav Bezshkurnyi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.6 | RG Number: RG-50.653.0006
Date:
interview: 2010 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vyacheslav A. Bezshkurniy, born in 1925 in Ilyinskaya in the former Soviet Union, describes his work in various defense-related factories in…
552. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0395
Date:
interview: 2012 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father Izak, who was a dentist, and her mother Olga, who was a champion swimmer; her younger sister Ewa; the Soviet invasion of Poland in the autumn of…
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 …, Izak Litman, was a dentist; and her mother, Olga Schreiber, was a champion swimmer. Halina also had a younger sister, Ewa. When the Soviet Union invaded…
553. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 312B
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1243 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1243
Date:
interview: 2010 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…A Belarusian woman, born in 1924, discusses her experiences in Zhirovichi (Grodno Oblast), Belarus before and during WWII; the few Jews in Zhirovichi…
554. Oral history interview with Stanley Kiersnowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.349.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0737
Date:
interview: 2014 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish community in Wilno; his childhood; the arrival of the Soviets; his family’s deportation in June 1941 and separation from his father; the three-week…
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 …. But the Polish peasants were not slaves, but they didn't have to fight. And that's why so many Jews-- Kazimierz Wielki, he had a girlfriend, Jewish. And…
555. Oral history interview with Miriam Storch Lewent
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0345 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0131
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in 1939; her family’s internment by Soviet forces and being deported to Siberia; cutting down trees to earn food rations near Tomsk, Russia; the…
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 … good Jew." You know, he predicted it. And uh that's how we survived, and again hoping to go home. (Laughing) Q: One more question. Was there in Tashkent…
556. Research interview with Zinaida Malashonor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.445.58 | RG Number: RG-50.653.01.0039
Date:
interview: 2015 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.…
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 … Russian families lived on the same street, and all the children went to the same school and played together; Jews usually working in small shops; the…
557. Oral history interview with Elias Piorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0118 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0022
Date:
interview: 1996 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Forced labor--Soviet Union.…
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 … school. Jews and rabbis. And for how many years did you do that? Oh, let's see, 1934 or '35. Till you were about 16 years old. Yeah. You were just in…
558. Oral history interview with Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.415.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0075
Date:
interview: 1990 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Soviet Union. Sovetskaia Armiia…
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 … – okay. The first that I really knew that Jews were being persecuted in Europe was as a child. I recall my mother taking us – meaning my brothers, my two…
559. Jewish Resettlers in 1920s
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0071 | Film ID: 140
Date:
Event: 1920s?
Duration:
00:00:18
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
560. Oral history interview with Ivonne Razon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.123 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0123
Date:
interview: 1993 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; going into houses and looking for food; entering a Soviet displaced persons camp, where she contracted typhus and had to stay in the hospital for a…
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 …. We were expelled from our school, we had to wear the Star of David, and we could not walk freely as we could before. We heard rumors that all the Jews…
561. Oral history interview with Fanya Kentriene
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1134 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1134
Date:
interview: 1991 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… non-Jewish Lithuanians; the impact of the Soviet occupation on the Jewish community and her experiences at the beginning of the German occupation; her…
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 … the Soviet Union and Allies didn't defeat Hitler no Jew would have survived. When your brother (Emmanuel Zingeras) was at the tenth anniversary in…
562. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
… was forced into conscribed labor in the Soviet Union and his wife, Sara was deported to Theresienstadt. They both perished sometime shortly thereafter…
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 … Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in…
563. Oral history interview with Samuel Rozin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.368 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0368
Date:
interview: 2000 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Red Army (Soviet Union)…
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 … as a volunteer firefighter. Samuel recalls Jabotinsky’s speech in 1938 in Kovno, when he encouraged all Jews to go to Eretz Israel. Samuel studied art…
564. Oral history interview with Rivka Peleg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.342 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0342
Date:
interview: 1998 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mother managing their large business; graduating from a Jewish-Lithuanian school; Soviet occupation in 1940; confiscation of the family business…
565. Oral history interview with Moshe ben Ozer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.318 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0318
Date:
interview: 1996 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Semeliskes.…
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 … optimistic. He believed they would survive the war (he did) and hoped the Germans would be defeated in some fashion. After education for Jews ended, Moshe…
566. Oral history interview with Márta Schultz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.288.53 | RG Number: RG-50.670.0053
Date:
interview: 2012 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… at restrictions placed on Jews; actions taken by non-Jews to help Jews obtain kosher food; the activities of the local gendarme; anti-Jewish propaganda…
567. November-Brandeis family papers
2012.143.11 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.143.11
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1992
bulk: 1939-1946
…Jews, Polish--Soviet Union.…
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 … (Województwo Podkarpackie) Jews, Polish--Soviet Union. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Brandeis, Adela November, Lea Brandel November, Mendel Zhambyl…
568. Mass burial of murdered Jews; exhumation of slave laborers
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2026 | Film ID: 844
Date:
Event: April 28-29, 1945
Duration:
00:10:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Mass burial of murdered Jews; exhumation of slave laborers…
569. Oral history interview with Dmitriy Garmash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.44 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0044
Date:
interview: 2006 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, including Tatars, Russians, and Ukrainians who were dissatisfied with Soviet power; the confiscation of weapons by Germans and local police; the mandatory…
570. Oral history interview with Lifjeris Jevstafjevs
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.456.33 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0033
Date:
interview: 2004 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his hometown; the treatment of the Jewish community under German occupation, including incidents of torture; the Jewish ghetto; the mass murder of Jews…
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 … about the extermination of the Jews during the German occupation of that city, and focuses on the first days of the occupation, the arrests and executions…
571. Oral history interview with Rachel Gliksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.189 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0189
Date:
interview: 1994 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.…
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 … months, all Jews who worked outside had to move to ghetto. She became member of the underground and made home-made bombs. Talks about leaders of…
572. Oral history interview with Dana Pomerants-Mazurkevich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.412.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1055
Date:
interview: 2019 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas.…
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 …,630 --> 00:02:54,130 OK. 78 00:02:54,130 --> 00:03:01,090 And because Germans-- they had to go to ghetto, 79 00:03:01,090 --> 00:03:02,500 like all the Jews…
573. War crimes investigation and trial records from the Archives of the Service for National Security of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Document | Accession Number: 2004.458 | RG Number: RG-75.001
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… colonies in the former Soviet Union. They were accused of wartime crimes. Most of them served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) unit as soldiers, between 1944 and…
574. Oral history interview with Apoloniusz Czyński
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.101 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0101
Date:
interview: 1999 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Apoloniusz Czyński, born in 1919 in Przemyśl, Poland, describes life under Soviet occupation from 1939 to 1941 and the treatment of the Jewish…
575. Oral history interview with Nat Soffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1456 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1456
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.…
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 … ISRAEL FOR JEWS 10 MR. SOFFER IF THEY WOULD LET THEM 11 ALONE EVEN OUR PRESIDENTWHAT HE WANTS FROM 12 THEM LEAVE THEM ALONE. WHY YOU STOP THE 13 F16S TO…
576. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 304B
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1235 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1235
Date:
interview: 2010 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… community; her Jewish neighbors; the beginning of the war; some Jews being taken away to work; the creation of Jewish ghettos; hiding their Jewish neighbors…
577. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager
2006.479.3 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.479.3
Date:
use: 1947-1951
… all the Jews from Rudnik, including the extended Wagner family. They were sent over the San River to Ulanow in Soviet-occupied territory. The Wagners…
578. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… (or Faivušs, 1918-1945). Jews made up about a quarter of Rēzekne’s population, and Ber attended a Jewish day school and acquired Zionist beliefs. He did…
579. Ceskoslovensky Valecny Kriz 1939 (Czechoslovak War Cross) with ribbon awarded to a Czech Jewish soldier
2004.643.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.643.3
Date:
issue: 1946 March 06
commemoration: 1939-1945
…Jews, Czech--Soviet Union--Biography.…
580. Oral history interview with Yakov Negnevitzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.22 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0022
Date:
interview: 1995 August 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews or thought they were working with the Germans; their unit gathering weapons near the Minsk area and saving Jews from the ghetto; falling sick with…
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 … the Germans would advance so far so fast once the war started. 2.23 Heard what was happening to Jews in Poland after the war started in 1939. 2…
581. Oral history interview with Michael Belovetsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.160 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0160
Date:
interview: 1987 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Red Army (Soviet Union)…
582. Oral history interview with Chanie Singer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.16 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0016
Date:
interview: 2014 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… kindness from a non-Jew in the ghetto; being liberated by the Russians; Russian soldiers drinking vodka and singing drinking songs; finding happiness in a…
583. Oral history interview with Błazej Jaczyński
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.108 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0108
Date:
interview: 1999 October 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Błazej Jaczyński, born in 1924 in Wlesna, Poland, describes life under the occupation by Soviet and then German forces; the arrest, trial, and…
584. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 525U
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.128 | RG Number: RG-50.589.0128
Date:
interview: 2007 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… shooting site; the covering of the ditch by Soviet prisoners of war; numerous smaller-scale shootings of Kovel' Jews and Roma. The video includes a visit by…
585. Oral history interview with Emmanuel Racine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.296.15 | RG Number: RG-50.710.0015
Date:
interview: approximately 2005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… resistance activities; his resolution that he would do the same thing again to save the Jewish people; the loss of French Jews in the Holocaust and the…
586. Oral history interview with Anna Čokinová
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.438.62 | RG Number: RG-50.688.0064
Date:
interview: 2016 February 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… soldiers at parties; a drummer announcing Jewish people would be taken; soldiers guarding Jews’ homes and not letting other people in; Jews being taken away…
587. Illustration of a Jew urging a Soviet soldier to whip a woman
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.362
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Illustration of a Jew urging a Soviet soldier to whip a woman…
588. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.333 | RG Number: RG-59.064
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1946
…Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Embassy and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including…
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 … and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities…
589. Oral history interview with Jack Ring
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.77 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0077
Date:
interview: 1992 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United States; the movement of his mother and sister to Wyszków, Poland; the ordering of the town's Jews to meet in the village square by the Germans, who…
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 … had it with me. He read it and he gave it to me back. And then he said to me, "raus, Jude," which means "get out of here, Jude." "Jew." And I left. And…
590. Oral history interview with Alfonsas Navašinskas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.78 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0078
Date:
interview: 2001 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… community; the support of local Jews for the Soviet regime; hiding a Jewish man, who was denounced and relocated to Alytus, Lithuania; bringing Jews to Alytus…
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 …. And then, with the property [presumably the looted property of the Jews], whatever they still had. There was no boat that arrived here, not even in…
591. Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian lands from Polish landlords
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3112 | Film ID: 2487
Film Title:
Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian Lands
Date:
Event: 1940
Production: 1940
Duration:
00:08:42
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
592. Propaganda posters and flyers produced by the German authorities on the occupied territory of the former USSR
Document | Accession Number: 2013.10 | RG Number: RG-31.117
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Ukraine.…
593. Oral history interview with Yakov Magelnitzkiy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.7 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0007
Date:
interview: 1995 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… run; joining Soviet partisans, who kept him as a German translator even though he was so you; going to Opochka; joining the Soviet Army as a driver…
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 … reached Viebsk area. Everyone in army units knew about destruction of ghettos, killing of Jews and Soviet POW’s. Finished war in China, where his unit had…
594. Oral history interview with Vera Glasberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.368 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0561
Date:
interview: 2009 January 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her husband in 1941; helping European Jews obtain visas; her parents’ immigration to the U.S. after the war; and her life in the U.S.…
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 … – were they refugees, were they from – mostly German Jews, or [indecipherable] Jews? A: No, they were not – there were some German, there were some Polish…
595. Oral history interview with Sylvia Malcmacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.34 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.…
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 … all over, scattered all over. Every street had Jews and not Jews. I mean it wasn't like some Jews were piled up in one place. Where we lived, there was…
596. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 220R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1085 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1085
Date:
interview: 2011 October 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.…
597. Oral history interview with Solomon Robby
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.476 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0476
Date:
interview: 1993 June 04
interview: 1994 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania--Siauliai.…
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 … mistreatment of Jews; his family not considering emigrating; restrictions on Lithuanian Jews increasing after Germany occupied Poland; a roundup of Jewish men…
598. Tsilya Tochilnikov papers
1995.A.0454.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0454.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Jews--Ukraine--Voznesensk.…
599. Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.214 | RG Number: RG-60.4149 | Film ID: 3012
Film Title:
Nazi Germany #14/ JB Ger Pos 4713 R-13-4703 R-21/Fine Grain 1935
Date:
Event: 1937
Production: 1937
Duration:
00:03:23
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… front page. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. Ends on a CU of a caricature of a Jew.…
600. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 758U
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.208 | RG Number: RG-50.589.0208
Date:
interview: 2009 January 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (possibly Pidhaĭchyky), both in L'vivs'ka Oblast, Ukraine; the 1939 presence of Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews in Rudki; the destruction in 1939 of much of the…