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521. Oral history interview with Werner Wolfgang Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.372.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1037
Date:
interview: 2019 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Munich.…
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 … of Eastern Jews in the '20s emigrated 196 00:09:36,670 --> 00:09:38,380 from Poland. 197 00:09:38,380 --> 00:09:41,650 Do you know about when that was…
522. Oral history interview with Joseph Gurwin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.219 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0508
Date:
interview: 2006 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; learning English in an American high school; entering into a government manufacturing business with his uncle; being drafted into the US Army in 1944…
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 … was about 23,000 people. Q: It was? A: Yes, and there were about 7,000 Jews in the town. Q: Uh-huh. A: And there were a number of [indecipherable] in…
523. Oral history interview with Socha Erika Cohen-Brüll
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.198.156 | RG Number: RG-50.944.0190
Date:
interview: 2021 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …, except for her brother; recalling the Red Cross being manipulated by the Germans during the war; her parents were not communists, nor religious Jews…
524. Oral history interview with Margot Freundenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.9 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conditions on the ship; living in New York, NY then Charleston, SC; her positive and negative encounters with Americans; her parents’ arrival in the US six…
525. Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.65 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0065
Date:
interview: 1998 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 40 days at sea and the rescue efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the countries that offered refuge to the passengers…
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 … leaving difficult for Jews, and the American consulates also made emigration into the United States difficult for the Jews of Germany. In 1937, when there…
526. Oral history interview with Mirjam Dunst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1356 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1356
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors…
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 … me to her home and she this woman knew am Jewish. This was the last one and already the American came in and she really helped me you know be there or…
527. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic
Object | Accession Number: 2003.452.2 a-b
… freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. At the university, Jewish students were deemed “aliens,” and were no longer eligible to receive diplomas…
528. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Americanization school to learn English. She also studied with Rabbi Jacobs from Bad Kreuznach, who lived with his family nearby. Susan later learned that most of…
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 … Society and American Friends Service Committee as well as identification documents for herself and her brother. Photographs included in this collection…
529. Oral history interview with Harry Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.745 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0745
Date:
interview: 1989 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Germany.…
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 … and late '38, to get an appointment to come to the American consulate in Stuttgart, to leave Germany. But of course, the main thing was in 1938, I think…
530. Oral history interview with Claus Shelling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.736 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0736
Date:
interview: 1991 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States; his life as a young immigrant in San Francisco, CA; the discrimination he experienced as a German; his efforts to assimilate into American culture…
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 … raised by nuns. And I think the reason was in a town like [NON-ENGLISH] there very, very few Jews in the town. And I started school right at the time that…
531. Oral history interview with Mae Galinksy
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.30 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0030
Date:
interview: 1991 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Education.…
532. Oral history interview with Anita Sockol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0186 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0457
Date:
interview: 1999 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; difficulties adjusting to American life; hearing of Kristallnacht and other details of the Holocaust in the United States; the immigration of an aunt who had…
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 … -- cause Saint Louis, you know, you think it’s an American ship. Q: When did you -- When did you learn of concentration camps, and the mass murder of Jews? A…
533. Small leather wallet with buckle used by a teenage girl to hold her diary in a labor camp
2005.349.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.349.3
Date:
use: 1946-1949
…, 1945, by Russian forces. From Kratzau, Julia returned to Łódź and lived in the Helenowek children’s home operated by the American Jewish Joint…
534. Blue AJDC patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker
2005.579.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.12
Date:
use: 1947 July-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…’s appointment as Chancellor on January 30, 1933, led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the…
535. Oral history interview with Georges Brandstatter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.462.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1061
Date:
interview: 2019 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…), who immigrated to Belgium in 1929 and she later became a seamstress; his parents’ marriage in 1938; the Germans occupation of Belgium; Jews having to…
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 … population felt that if they respected the laws after the Germans occupied Belgium, everything would be alright. In 1942, things changed. The Jews were…
536. Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0122
Date:
interview: 1993 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by American planes; being released by the Germans and then chased down and beaten into a coma; waking up in a German hospital; organizations that…
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 … small town or in a big town? A: A big city. Q: Mm-hm. Were there lots of Jews there? A: Yes, we – we had a lot – lots of Jews, we had religious Jews, not…
537. Oral history interview with Blanche Hall
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.353 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0591
Date:
interview: 2010 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Schlüchtern.…
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 …: No, mostly Gentile. Q: Mostly Gentile. A: Mostly Gentile. Of the eight, I remember, before Hitler came, I think there were about a hundred Jews in…
538. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.2._a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.2 a-c
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… lived in Dresden. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and established an antisemitic Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Richard and his…
539. Jointed wooden rod puppet shaped as a Jewish man with a Star of David badge
2016.184.564 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.564
Date:
creation: approximately 1820
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
540. Oral history interview with Nat Bar Giori
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0067.5 | RG Number: RG-50.968.0004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…