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51. Éva Josefsson Bász papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0004
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1996
…Éva Josefsson Bász, a Jehovah's Witness, survived internment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Her sisters Elvira and Judit both…
52. From Holocaust to Rebirth commemorative bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor of several concentration camps
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Object | Accession Number: 2012.313.3
Date:
commemoration: 1981 June 14-1981 June 18
received: 1981 June
…From Holocaust to Rebirth commemorative bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor of several concentration camps…
53. Set of tefillin owned by Adolf Hausman
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Object | Accession Number: 2004.611.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1949
…’s Nuremberg laws. Adolf would get in fights with Hungarians because he was Jewish. He heard about concentration camps from escaped Polish prisoners from…
54. Oral history interview with Janina Drebnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.119 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0119
Date:
interview: 1999 October 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the deportation of her family to Bergen, Germany; and her time in a labor camp near Hanover, Germany, and the conditions there; and the deaths of her…
55. Oral history interview with Tushia Silbering
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.22 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0022
Date:
interview: 1995 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
56. Oral history interview with Yosef Bau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.317 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0317
Date:
interview: 1996 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; advertising his skills as a graphic artist and the Germans hiring him; the transfer of his family to the Płaszów camp; having his and his wife’s name added to…
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 … camp. His name was added to Schindler’s list because his wife saved the life of the list maker’s (Pemper’s) mother. Yosef spent time in Gross Rosen and…
57. Oral history interview with Menachem Ofen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.114 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0114
Date:
interview: 1992 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… poor section of town; being sent to Czechowice to work in an airplane factory; work conditions, life in the work camp, and his state of mind; being sent…
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 … the woods. He was sent to labor camp. 3.38 He was sent to Czechowice to work in the airplane factory. Describes work conditions, life in work camp and…
58. Oral history interview with Gusta Fuhrmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.248 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0248
Date:
interview: 1984 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… displaced persons camp with no papers as Greek Jews; stayed in Salzburg 1948 to 1951 after the DP camp closed; and immigrating to the United States in October…
59. Oral history interview with Yakov Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.195 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0195
Date:
interview: 1985 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; having to wear an arm band; doing forced labor along with his brothers and father; removing corpses from rubble; being in Auschwitz concentration camp in…
60. Oral history interview with Gabriela Truly
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.50 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0050
Date:
interview: 1990 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and the difficult life in the camps; the deaths of her sister and young nephew; self-preservation and caring only for yourself; the incidents when she…
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 … the camps. Later, when mothers were brought with small children to a separate block, her sister and her 4 ½ year old son were among the first to be…
61. Oral history interview with Yoram Aharoni
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.539.23 | RG Number: RG-50.430.0023
Date:
interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… caught by the British and placed into internment camps in Atlit; joining the Jewish underground movement Fighters for the Freedom of Israel; opening a…
62. Oral history interview with Romeo Fagiolo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.85 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0567
Date:
interview: 2010 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … infantry and training soldiers for one cycle before being sent to Camp Gruber, Oklahoma with the 42nd Infantry Division; reports being in that camp from July…
63. Oral history interview with Kurt Klein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.35 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0035
Date:
interview: 1990 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … would be to talk to you about being Jewish, and to the tender advice, such as you people will all be lined up in concentration camps if you don't watch it…
64. Joseph G. Fogg letter and obituary
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0135 | RG Number: RG-09.039
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1992
…th British Army, and served from 1942 to 1945. He witnessed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation…
65. From Bialystok to Brooklyn
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0348 | RG Number: RG-02.202
…Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn…
66. Oral history interview with Joseph Katz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.83 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0083
Date:
interview: 1988 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joseph Katz discusses his birth in Vienna, Austria in 1913; becoming stateless; being imprisoned in Drancy concentration camp, Auschwitz, Buna…
67. Oral history interview with Leslie Korda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.53 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0053
Date:
interview: 1984 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
68. Oral history interview with Kristina Kverh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.4.24 | RG Number: RG-50.592.0024
Date:
interview: 2009 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… July 1942 to Rab concentration camp; many deaths in Rab as a result of starvation and harsh living conditions; her father’s execution; her transfer to…
69. Oral history interview with Anton Šercer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.4.12 | RG Number: RG-50.592.0012
Date:
interview: 2009 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interrogated; his transfer to Birkenau; forced labor at a factory in Birkenau; poor working conditions; evacuation from the camp in 1945 on foot to Altenburg…
70. Oral history interview with Eva Wollenberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.860 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0860
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… railroad in Stolp (now in Słupsk, Poland); suffering multiple illnesses; returning to Stutthof until 1945; a forced march out of camp to a barge; the bombing…
71. Portfolio
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Object | Accession Number: 1989.19.12
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
Series Title:
12 puvodnich litografii z nemeckych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas
… sent to Nisko labor camp near Lublin in German occupied Poland, where he drove supply wagons. He made portraits of SS camp personnel, in exchange for…
72. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0352
Date:
interview: 2011 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Skarzysko concentration camp to work in a munitions factory and later to camp Czestochowa; being liberation by Soviet forces from Czestochowa in January 1945…
73. Oral history interview with Max Wahl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1149 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1149
Date:
interview: 1991 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
….477.1281) to avoid persecution; the loss of his German citizenship in 1936; his arrest in October 1938 and his imprisonment later that year in a camp for…
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 … plaque they are going to put there the way he died. To put that just in parentheses my parents died in camp. They were deported in 1943 to Terezin…
74. Bronka Rezak papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.601.1
Date:
1987-1989
… ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to Australia after World War II. In the manuscript…
75. Oral history interview with Tauba Furgang
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.145 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0145
Date:
interview: 1989 March 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the Łódź ghetto; the liquidation of the Łódź ghetto; being transported via cattle car to Auschwitz in August 1944; arriving at the camp in the night and…
76. Oral history interview with Angele Maranian
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.179.1 | RG Number: RG-50.878.0001
Date:
interview: 1987-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to internment camps at Atmar and Tost (Toszek), Poland while she was sent to Altmar and Liebenau in southern Germany; being reunited with her husband…
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 … internment camps. Angèle and Maurice, newly wed and just getting acquainted, were separated into two camps that were 500 miles apart. They did not know if they…
77. Oral history interview with Leslie Aigner and Eva Aigner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.372.2 | RG Number: RG-50.764.0001
Date:
interview: 2009 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experimentation in the camp; the suicide of inmates on the electric fence and having to remove the bodies; hearing the explosion of the crematorium; his transfer to…
78. Oral history interview with Irving Lisman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.81 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0081
Date:
interview: 1994 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including…
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 … Dachau Concentration Camp. Irving had heard about concentration camps but had considered those as labor camps for dissidents of the Nazi regime, he was not…
79. Oral history interview with David L. Ichelson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.59 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0059
Date:
interview: 1994 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including…
80. Illustrated pamphlet owned by Ann West
Object | Accession Number: 1988.82.6
Date:
publication/distribution: 1945
Title:
K.Z. Dachau, Erlebnisbericht
… April 1943, Anny and Heinz, now her husband, were deported with their friends to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Anny was assigned…
81. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
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Object | Accession Number: 2005.522.7
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: 1943-1944
…Women concentration camp inmates--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ustecky kraj)--Personal narratives.…
82. Handmade, moveable, wooden chicken toy purchased for a German Jewish girl after her liberation from Theresienstadt
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Object | Accession Number: 1996.76.3
Date:
received: after 1945 May 09-before 1945 June
… station. The next day, their parents joined them and they were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. After arrival, they were put…
83. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance
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Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 May-before 1946 May
…Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance…
84. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson in a displaced persons camp
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Object | Accession Number: 2009.372.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944 October
creation: 1945-1948
emigration: 1948 October 21
…Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson in a displaced persons camp…
85. Drawing by Ervin Abadi created while at Bergen Belsen displaced person's camp
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Object | Accession Number: 1992.193.1
Date:
creation: 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Celle--Personal narratives, Hungarian.…
86. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, .50 Reichsmark, found by a US soldier
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.136.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 April 15
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--Personal narratives, American.…
87. Coin found at a concentration camp by a US liberator
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Object | Accession Number: 2016.136.3
Date:
found: approximately 1945 April 15
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--Personal narratives, American.…
88. Oral history interview with Edward Anders
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0451
Date:
interview: 1997 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … huge camp with lots of Jews working there. What they were doing, so on, is pure invention. Railroad traffic was still disrupted, so it -- there wasn…
89. Two-sided Company B, 11th Armored Division, US Army, poster depicting the advance through Europe received by a soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.442.12
Date:
received: 1945 June
creation: 1945 June
Artwork Title:
11th Armored Division, Combat Company B, thru France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Personal narratives.…
90. Oral history interview with Sini Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.2 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0002
Date:
interview: 1992 October 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; maintaining his Jewish identity in the camp; being deported to Birkenau in May 1944 in cattle cars; daily life in the camp; being moved to a forced labor camp…
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 …). Shows map/diagram of Birkenau II. 4:06-4:10 and explains structure of camps, barracks, and services. They are in Camp D, Barrack 1 4:13-4:16 With their…
91. Oral history interview with Eva Anderman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0127.2 | RG Number: RG-50.154.0002
Date:
interview: 1986 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of her parents and two younger brothers; her father’s dry-goods store; her father’s death from a stroke; her mother’s death in a concentration camp…
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 … worked there. Her brothers became watchmakers. Her father died before the concentration camps from a stroke, her mother died in a concentration camp. She…
92. Oral history interview with Genia Gelbershtat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.234 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0234
Date:
interview: 1995 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… burning of the ghetto and being wounded as she escaped; difficulties remembering how she arrived in a partisan family camp located in a village; scouting…
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 … camp located in a village. 2.10 Describes walking at night and hiding in the forest during the day. How they got food from the peasants. They reached the…
93. Oral history interview with Yehoshua Shachar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.135 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0135
Date:
interview: 1991 May
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Mauthausen; conditions in the camp; Kapos; being sent on a truck to Gunskirchen; liberation by Americans; escaping the camp when Russians took over and he…
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 … Mauthausen. Describes scenes of horrors in the camp during the last days of the Nazi regime. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
94. Oral history interview with George 'Gecel' Steinic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.65 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0065
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
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 … thousand Jews on 7 April 1942 to a series of labor camps; living in barracks, where conditions were “not too bad;” the presence in the camps of British POWs…
95. Oral history interview with Sol Shaya Lurie
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0141
Date:
interview: 1993 July 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … happening in the concentration camps? A: We heard that people were being killed, but we didn't believe it. Nobody believed it that they are doing things like…
96. Oral history interview with Leon Kushynski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.34 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0034
Date:
interview: 1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps; the Judenrat (Jewish council); his home becoming part of the Jewish ghetto; being sent to a camp in Ukraine and running away several weeks later…
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 … the Germans came, he was about 19 years old. Conditions became intolerable. Young men were sent to labor camps. There were beatings, killings, not…
97. Oral history interview with Leon Heller
Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1261.519 | RG Number: RG-50.431.0319
Date:
interview: 1996 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 1238 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, and…
98. Oral history interview with Leon Chameides
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0266 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0029
Date:
interview: 1998 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives.…
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 … close to the extermination camp of Belzyce. But I was hidden in a monastery, the Univ monastery was the mother monastery of the stunite http://collections…
99. Oral history interview with Alan Zimm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.25 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0025
Date:
interview: 1995 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains oral history interviews with 25 Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators recorded in preparation for the United States…
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 … Landsberg, to a camp, a DP camp-- 9 00:00:37,890 --> 00:00:40,540 10 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:45,310 I married the younger sister as my wife. 11 00:00:45…
100. Oral history interview with Mara Vejnovis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0387.8 | RG Number: RG-50.468.0008
Date:
interview: 1997 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Women concentration camp inmates--Croatia--Personal narratives.…
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 … partisans. The rest of Novska Jews were deported to Stara Gradi{ka in August of 1942 and Mara sew them at the entrance of the camp. Many of them were…