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701. Oral history interview with Stanley Volansky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1807 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1807
Date:
interview: 1979 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanley Volansky discusses his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto beginning in 1940; starvation in the ghetto; being deported to Auschwitz in August 1944…
702. Oral history interview with Rachel Bet Meir
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.169.11 | RG Number: RG-90.141.0011
Date:
interview: 2021 April 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
703. Oral history interview with Lola Swede
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.64 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0064
Date:
interview: 1991 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Head shaving--Poland--Oswiecim.…
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 …'m sorry, we're at Channel 4. I saw the number 2. And it is Thursday, May 16, 1991, and our guest this evening is Lola Swede. Lola is from Poland. Lola, will…
704. Oral history interview with Leo Schneiderman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.395.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0205
Date:
interview: 1990 May 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Schneiderman, born on August 18, 1921 in Łódź, Poland, describes his family and childhood; the large Jewish population that had comfortably…
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 … born, and when? A: I was born in, uh, Lódz, Poland, in August the 18th, 1921. Q: Leo, tell me about your childhood. I want to know about your family…
705. Oral testimony of Paula Dash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 November 23
Subtitle:
Paula Dash Remembers
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Paula Dash, born December 3, 1920 in Łódź, Poland, discusses the German invasion; how Jews were beaten by the Germans; having to wear a star; Jews…
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 …TITLE-PAULA DASH DATE-NOVEMBER 23, 1987 SOURCE-HOLOCAUST EYEWITNESS PROJECT OF WASHINGTON, D.C. 00 Paula Dash was born in Lodz, Poland. Lodz was the…
706. Necklace of found materials made in a camp by an Austrian Jewish woman
2006.355.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.355.2
Date:
creation: 1945 May-1946
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
707. Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers
1991.A.0179 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0179 | RG Number: RG-10.177
Date:
1942-1944
…Jerzy Guminski (1923-1942) was born on March 20, 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. He had a sister Hanna Guminski. Jerzy and his mother, Zofia Guminski, worked…
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 … Auschwitz wrote a letter to his sister, Hanna Guminski in Swider (Poland). In the letter he reported his health condition and asked to send him sheet music…
708. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen, owned by a former Czech Jewish inmate
2001.3.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.31
Date:
issue: after 1943 May 12-1944
…, overcrowded train to Auschwitz in German occupied Poland. As they neared the camp, the inmates told new arrivals to throw their belongings to them over the…
709. Oral history interview with Fela Nichthauser
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.11 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0011
Date:
interview: 1946 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Poland during the early days of the German occupation; her experiences during a round up of all the Jews in Wadowice, and how the Germans selected her and…
710. Oral history interview with Henry Greenbaum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0130
Date:
interview: 2004 May 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Greenbaum (né Chuna Grynbaum), born on April 1, 1928 in Starachowice, Poland, describes his parents; his father Nuchem, who ran a tailor shop…
711. Oral history interview with Helen Kalina
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.82 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0082
Date:
interview: 1990 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and…
712. Oral history interview with Ilona Blair
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.12 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 November 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and…
713. Oral history interview with Shalom Schreiber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0051.10 | RG Number: RG-50.308.0010
Date:
interview: 1987 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shalom Schreiber describes the Jewish character in Poland before the war; the restrictions placed on Jews; the Zionist movements that formed in the…
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 … to the slaughter? He tries to answer this question by describing the Jewish character in Poland before the war. In those days there were 3 million…
714. Oral history interview with Joseph Neumann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.51 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0051
Date:
interview: 1988 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his hiding place as they were preparing for Passover and arrested everyone; being taken in cattle cars to Auschwitz in April 1942; being beaten as he…
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 … there was also antisemitism. In 1939, Joseph withdrew from the army because the Slovak Army was going to join the German Army and invade Poland. He chose…
715. Oral history interview with Leo Korona
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.349 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0349
Date:
interview: 1981 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leo Korona, born on December 12, 1908 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses his early life and family; his family moving to Poland when he was too young to…
716. Oral history interview with Cypora Gutnic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.15 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0015
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Cypora Gutnic, born in Poland, discusses her decision to leave Poland because of the antisemitism; immigrating in 1930 to Palestine where she lived…
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 …RG-50.146.0015 Oral history interview with Cypora Gutnic Summary Born in Poland, Cypora Gutnic decided to leave Poland because of the antisemitism…
717. Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
2006.125.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
Date:
creation: 2000 October 10
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium
…Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.--Pictorial works.…
718. Isaac Schlomkowitz poetry
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0021 | RG Number: RG-24.017
Date:
inclusive: circa 1959-1984
…Isaac Schlomkowitz was born into a Zionist family in Łódź, Poland in September 1917. The family immigrated to Palestine in 1922 but returned to…
719. Oral history interview with Rose Koenigsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.12 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0012
Date:
interview: 1984 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… going to Berehove, Ukraine before their transport to Auschwitz; staying with her sisters throughout her time at the camp; the terrible food and the poor…
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 … friends. However, they were finally discovered and arrested by Hungarian guards and sent to Berehove, Ukraine and then on to Auschwitz. Rose and her three…
720. Oral history interview with Fred Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… resident; his mother being placed in a camp in Budapest; being deported with local Jews to Auschwitz in June 1944; the selection; being sent to Dörnhau (now…
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 …, September 1st, the war broke out in Poland and after a few weeks – it didn’t last long – they started to send Jews to Poland. There were no camps set up yet…