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151. Oral history interview with Fritz Gluckstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.24 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0024
Date:
interview: 1988 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fritz Gluckstein, born January 24, 1927 in Berlin, Germany, describes being the son of a Jewish father (Georg) and a Christian mother (Hedwig); his…
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 …'s father came from Russia. Anyhow, my-- yes, they came from Russia and immigrated to Germany in-- that's right. And my mother's family also lived in Germany…
152. Oral history interview with Abram Roitman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.137 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0137
Date:
interview: 1994 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Canada--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection 79 ABRAM: And when I came to Germany, we came to Berlin, we made…
153. Oral history interview with Susan Taube
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.28 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0028
Date:
interview: 1993 March 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling to Berlin; moving into a displaced persons camp; traveling to Hessen, Germany (in the town Osterwieck); and immigrating in 1947 to the United States…
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 … Frankfurt after the Nuremburg Laws had been implemented in order to receive schooling. In 1938, her father immigrated to the United States and hoped to send…
154. Oral history interview with Max Drimmer and Herman Shine
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.400 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0400
Date:
interview: 1996 January 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
155. Oral history interview with Gerda Haas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0185 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0025
Date:
interview: 1998 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; training to be a nurse in Berlin, Germany; her deportation to Theresienstadt; her liberation from the camp; receiving aid from the Red Cross and her…
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 …Gerda Haas discusses her prewar family life in Anspach, Germany; her family’s religious practices; training to be a nurse in Berlin, Germany; her…
156. Oral history interview with Werner Weinstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1031 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1031
Date:
interview: 1991 April 18
interview: 1991 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… power; his experiences during Kristallnacht in November 1938; his family's move to Berlin, Germany, and their escape to Holland; his education there and…
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 … Germany in Smeidleberg which is little city in the mountains in Schlaydon 170 is close to the Czechoslovakia border. My mother comes from Berlin and well…
157. Oral history interview with Raymond Turgel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.297.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0678
Date:
interview: 2012 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Raymond Turgel, born February 28, 1924 in Berlin, Germany, describes his family, childhood, and school life; the presence of Hitler in Berlin…
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 … was born on February 28, 1924 in Berlin and in a second floor walk-up apartment on Potsdamer Strasse, which is near the center or close to the center of…
158. Oral history interview with Rita Kuhn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.223 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0223
Date:
interview: 1993 October 06
interview: 1993 October 27
interview: 1993 December 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germany and her immigration to the United States in 1948; and her return to Berlin for the 50th year memorial of Kristallnacht, when she participated in a…
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 … ORANIENBURG WASNT IN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF BERLIN Yeah yeah. AND THE CAMPS -- THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF THEM ALL OVER OF GERMANY. SO TO ME -- HAVE THE SANE QUESTION…
159. Oral history interview with Ellen Fletcher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.206 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0206
Date:
interview: 1995 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ellen Fletcher (née Amster), born on December 3, 1928 in Berlin, Germany, describes her Polish father and her German mother; growing up in Germany…
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 … was to visit my mother. I did not go to Berlin, which is the only city I knew in Germany. I went to visit her and she lived in a very, very attractive…
160. Oral history interview with Ann Burger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.158 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0158
Date:
interview: 1999 December 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … yellow ribbon on her father’s business. Ann, aged 14, was upset to see her father depressed and lose his business in 1934. Her father went to Berlin in…
161. Oral history interview with Lore Hepner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.36 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0036
Date:
interview: 2011 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Chile--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …, the youngest sister of two brothers, left Berlin at age 9. Her childhood was happy. Her father was a lawyer in the Courts of Appeal of Berlin, and…
162. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… began searching for ways to emigrate from Germany. Quotas and restrictions made the search difficult, but the family learned that they could immigrate to…
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 …--Shanghai. World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Germany. Geography: Berlin (Germany) Shanghai (China) United States--Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form…
163. Oral history interview with Richard Shand
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.734 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0734
Date:
interview: 1994 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … you born? I was born on the 26th of August, 1929, in Breslau, Germany. It's now Wroclaw in Poland. And what were your parents' names? My father's name…
164. Arnold Mechur papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.291.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1974
…Arnold Mechur was born on July 24, 1915 in Berlin, Germany. Arnold was one the youngest of of twelve children born to Herman Mechur and his wife…
165. Fritz Gluckstein papers
1991.141.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1991.141.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
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 …‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Forced labor‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Berlin (Germany) United States‐‐Emigration and immigration. Photographs. CONTAINER LIST…
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 … Berlin, Germany, where his father, a lawyer by training, served as a district judge. Following the Nazi seizure of power, Georg was dismissed from his…
166. Oral history interview with Jeanette Rothschild
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.872 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0872
Date:
interview: 1997 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experience during World War I; living in Berlin, Germany once she was married and the Jewish community there; the entrance of the Nazis in 1933; being able to…
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 …, 1938. World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives. Berlin (Germany) Grossmannsdorf am Main (Germany) Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. Straubing…
167. Oral history interview with Inge Booker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.178 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0178
Date:
interview: 1992 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…China--Emigration and immigration.…
168. Ursula Horn papers
1989.213 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.213
Date:
inclusive: 1939-circa 1995
bulk: 1939-1940
… Germany to the United States with their daughter, Ursula, in 1939, and their family members who remained in Berlin and Zerbst, Germany. Biographical…
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 ….ushmm.org United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century. Berlin (Germany) Zerbst (Germany) CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials, 1939 Folder…
169. Oral history interview with Steffi Black
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.156 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0156
Date:
interview: 1999 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Steffi Black, born on October 17, 1920 in Berlin, Germany, describes her childhood; her Polish parents Charlotte Pink and Felix Israel; her father…
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 …: Steffi, an only child, was born on October 17, 1920 in Berlin. Her mother, Charlotte Pink (maiden name) and her father Felix Israel were both Polish. Her…
170. Gutmann family Bible containing inscribed death dates and pressed flowers
Object | Accession Number: 2019.625.3 a-b
Date:
publication: 1886
Title:
Sidur Śafah berurah
Subtitle:
mesudar bi-shelemut ha-sidur u-meduyaḳ be-takhlit ha-diyuḳ
… in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His mother and brother emigrated from Germany to England during the Holocaust. Clara, John, and John’s wife Mania immigrated…
171. Oral history interview with George Schwab
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.86 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0493
Date:
interview: 2005 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Berlin, Germany; his contact with relatives in England and the United States and reuniting with his mother; spending time in the Schlachtensee…
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 …. It’s still in existence today, and for – then he studied also for a semester at Konigsberg University, and from – he specialized in Berlin for three…
172. Oral history interview with Ute (Sora) Seiler Vigorito
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.812 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0812
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ute (Sora) Seiler Vigorito, born in October 1941 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her limited early memories of living in hiding in 1943; her mother and…
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 … experimentation in medicine--Poland. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979. Poland Twins United States--Emigration and…
173. Oral history interview with Sam Weltsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1289 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1289
Date:
interview: 1981 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … themselves because the time after World War was very hard for everyone and specially for us refugees in Germany. received my whole education in Berlin schools…
174. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, when they went to Germany and ultimately escaped from the Russian sector of Germany to the American zone of Berlin. Lucy and her family settled in Berlin…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Zelów (Poland). Nisko (Poland). Munich (Germany). United States‐‐Emigration and immigration‐‐History‐‐20th century…
175. Oral history interview with Tzvi Aviram
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.4 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tzvi Aviram (b. Heinz Tzvi Abrahamason), born in 1927, discusses his family and childhood in Berlin, Germany; Berlin’s Jewish community; the Nazi…
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 … took place at the time of Mendelssohn, the Jewish community developed deep roots and spread in Berlin and in Germany and achieved unlike anyplace else…
176. Oral history interview with Steffi Blumenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.211.24 | RG Number: RG-90.133.0024
Date:
interview: 2018 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Colombia--Emigration and immigration.…
177. Oral history interview with Gerda Schild Haas
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0334
Date:
interview: 1995 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …, born Gerda Schild in Ansbach which is a small town in Germany – Bavaria – and I was born in November of 1922. Q: And can you tell us something about your…
178. Scrapbook album, "First Reunion, 1958"
Document | Accession Number: 2016.469.1
Date:
creation: 1958
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.…
179. Book discrediting “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” written by a Russian Jew
2016.184.700 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.700
Date:
publication: 1923
Title:
Protokoly Sionskikh" Mudretsov"
Subtitle:
Istoriya odnogo podloga
Alternate Title:
Protocols of the Elders of Zion: (The Story of One Forgery)
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… within Germany and the lands that it occupied during this time. During the late 1930s or early 1940s, Delevsky’s wife passed away. He immigrated to the…
180. Oral history interview with Gertrude Chapman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.299.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0901
Date:
interview: 2016 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… children so that she and her siblings could qualify as orphan refugees to leave Germany and immigrate to the United States.…
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 …. Paderborn is in the western part of Germany, pretty far from Berlin. Yeah. And in Berlin, you lived in the Scheunenviertel. Is that what it is? Mm-hmm. Was…
181. Oral history interview with Sol Messinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.69 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0069
Date:
interview: 1991 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … community was in in Germany, simply gave in and severely restricted immigration to Palestine. As far as the United States was concerned, there were…
182. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.4
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
…, Herman was housed in displaced person’s (DP) camps in Holungen and Nordhausen, both in Germany. Later, he lived in a DP camp in Berlin until February 21…
183. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.204.1
…Germany--Emigration and immigration.…
184. Oral history interview with Tana Gelfer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0431 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Berlin; immigrating to the United States; marrying and raising a family; and how her mother helped sponsor several people emigrate from Germany to the…
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 …OK. Mrs. Gelfer, let me start with just the basics. When were you born, the exact date? October 7, 1939. And where were you born? Berlin, Germany…
185. Oral history interview with Hanna Cassel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.154 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0154
Date:
interview: 1992 August 11
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hanna Cassel, born on December 6, 1914, in Berlin, Germany, describes her father Arthur, who owned a shoe store and her mother Rebecca, who helped…
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 … Summary: (Deceased June 24, 2001) Hanna was born on December 6, 1914, in Berlin, Germany. Her father, Arthur, owned a shoe store and her mother, Rebecca…
186. Oral history interview with Werner Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.26 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0026
Date:
interview: 1981 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Werner Bergh discusses his early life in Berlin, Germany; the arrest of his father and his imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; leaving…
187. Oral history interview with Erika Weingarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.45 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0045
Date:
interview: 1999 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
188. Oral history interview with Charlotte Dessen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.49 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0049
Date:
interview: 1989 February 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the clothing; being rescued from gassing; liberation and being moved to Berlin, Germany by train; returning with a friend from the camp to her hometown…
189. Loewenstein family papers
2001.65.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2001.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1943
… Ernest, Guy, and Hede Loewenstein, their emigration from Germany, and immigration to the United States. Emigration and immigration records consist of…
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 …) Berlin (Germany) Antwerp (Belgium) Germany‐‐Emigration and immigration‐‐History‐‐1933‐1945. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials…
190. Salomon family papers
1998.A.0222 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0222
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--1933-1945.…
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 … Salomon and their attempts to emigrate from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. Correspondence from the family to Herman and Edith's daughter Marianne…
191. Oral history interview with Harry Lewin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.340 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0340
Date:
interview: 1997 September 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
192. Oral history interview with Alexander Katten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.633 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0633
Date:
interview: 1990 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Mr. Katten's childhood in Berlin, Germany, the events of the Kristallnacht in November 1938, and Mr. Katten's experiences…
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 … DID YOU SURVIVE IN WEST BERLIN Oh we had help there. The Jewish community helped you know and then they brought us from West Germany and stayed in…
193. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0393
Date:
interview: 2012 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…
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 … Harry Markowicz Born August 9, 1937, in Berlin Germany Harry Markowicz was born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Marja Markowicz. His…
194. Oral history interview with Rodolfo Haymann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.34 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0034
Date:
interview: 2009 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …Interviewee: Rodolfo Haymann Interviewed on 11/27/ 2009 Interviewer: XIMENA HINZPETER Rodolfo Hayman was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1921. Mother…
195. Eric Otto Sonneman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1961
bulk: 1937-1939
…Emigration & immigration--Germany--1930-1940.…
196. Oral history interview with Ya'akov Geler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.243 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0243
Date:
interview: 1995 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1942 and the Polish leader Pogachov; his recruitment into the Russian Army; attack on and destruction of Berlin, Germany; his discharge from the army in…
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 … all the partisans were killed. Describes the burning of German villages, plundering and rape. 5.17 Describes attack on and destruction of Berlin. 5…
197. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0690
Date:
interview: 2019 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Markowicz, born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his Polish parents; his older siblings; a family friend who was a policeman and…
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 … and his older siblings Rosa and Mani in 1941, he was born August 9th, 1937, in Berlin, Germany, his parents max and Marja had emigrated from Poland…
198. Oral history interview with Ruth Rehbock and Ralph Rehbock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.61 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0061
Date:
interview: 1986 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … country and the town. A. I come from Germany. I was born on November 24, 1906 in Shcmockhoden (ph) in Turin (ph). Q. What was home like? How many brothers…
199. Oral history interview with Carl Hammerschmidt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.693 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0693
Date:
interview: 1990 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Holocaust survivor. The interview describes Mr. Hammerschmidt's comfortable childhood and education in Berlin, Germany. Mr. Hammerschmidt recalls the rise to…
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 … out when he was in Germany after the war but you couldnt find out much. When he was in prison and the police in Berlin -- every Friday night were the…
200. Oral history interview with Beatrice Muchman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.298.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0900
Date:
interview: 2016 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Beatrice (Trixie) Muchman (née Westheimer) was born June 5, 1933 in Berlin, Germany to Meta and Julius Westheimer. She had two nicknames: Trixie and…
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 … mean we were literally fleeing, because you could really not emigrate anywhere. So how we got to the border between Berlin and Brussels I don't know. So…