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201. Oral history interview with Steven Springfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.370.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0220
Date:
interview: 1990 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her; moving to Berlin, Germany with his wife and brother; and applying for a visa and immigrating to the United States on March 10, 1947.…
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 … was 1946 and we stayed in Berlin for a little 02:12:20 while, a few months, and then I applied for a visa through the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society…
202. Oral history interview with Edith Deutsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.132 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0132
Date:
interview: 1999 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Australia--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … education. My mother, I think after high school or it was high school went to Berlin with her sister, Elsie. And they were a few years in Berlin in a girls…
203. Oral history interview with Harry Markowicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0443
Date:
interview: 2013 July 18
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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 … Mani as he was known, taken in 1941. Harry was born on August 9, 1937, in Berlin, Germany. His parents, Max and Marja, emigrated from Poland shortly…
204. Oral history interview with Szoel Balbin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.37 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0037
Date:
interview: 1996 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Australia--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … active in smuggling Jews to the allied section of Berlin, Germany. Szoel was caught by Polish police during one of these trips and jailed. He managed to…
205. Alfred Fabian papers
1995.78.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.78.11
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
… in Berlin. He married Ruth Imber, who was born on February 23, 1909, in Schulitz, Kreis Bromberg, Germany (Bydgoszcz, Poland), to Elias and Erstina…
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 …‐‐Germany. Nowa Marchia (Poland) Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) United States‐‐Emigration and immigration‐‐History‐‐20th century. Photographs. http…
206. Oral history interview with Sybil Niemöller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.94 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0094
Date:
interview: 1986 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … three were killed in World War I. He wanted to be a diplomat, but after the defeat of Germany in 1918, his career was crushed and he lived in poverty…
207. Oral history interview with (D.S.) Anonymous
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.57 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0057
Date:
interview: 1982 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…D. S., son of a Jewish banker and a Protestant mother and born in Berlin, Germany in 1928, describes staying in Berlin until 1948; his family…
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 … Jewish banker and a Protestant mother, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He stayed in Berlin until 1948. He discusses his family’s history, his…
208. Oral history interview with Henry J. Kellermann
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0103
Date:
interview: 1992 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry J. Kellermann, born in Berlin, Germany in 1910, describes his family and his childhood; participating in the League of German Jewish Youth and…
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 …, doctorate of Juris Prudence. The years I spent in Berlin, Germany, as a child and as an adolescent were years which really laid the foundation for whatever…
209. Oral history interview with Evelyn Panish
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.449 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0449
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…China--Emigration and immigration.…
210. Oral history interview with Helen Greenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.4 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; getting married and having a son in Berlin, Germany; moving to the United States in 1948 and settling in New York.…
211. Oral history interview with Gerhard Heimann with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.176.3 | RG Number: RG-50.928.0003
Date:
interview: 2002 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Israel--Emigration and immigration.…
212. Oral history interview with Miriam Eizenshtat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.298 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0298
Date:
interview: 1996 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being in cattle trains to Ravensbrück; living with Romanies; being taken by train to camp Malchin near Berlin, Germany; conditions in the camp and the…
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 … suspected of killing a German. 1:11:00 Refugees from Lublin and Germany arrived and were well received by the Jewish population. She was told that in 1941 her…
213. Oral history interview with Anne Weidemann-Russell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.19 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0019
Date:
interview: 1984 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … aspects. Women--Personal narratives. Berlin (Germany) Brandenburg (Brandenburg, Germany) Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. United States--Emigration…
214. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--1933-1945.…
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 … Indexing terms Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jewish refugees – Germany. Jewish refugees – China – Shanghai. Germany – Emigration and…
215. Ernst Graf papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.127.2
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2011
…Ernst Graf (1905-1966) was born in Berlin, Germany on November 12, 1905 to Joachim and Maria Graf. He married Dorothea Reichenthal (b. 1911) in 1933…
216. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
… Eva (later Eva Cohn) Rhée’s emigration from Lüneburg, Germany to England in 1938; Max, Ida, and their son Hans Cohn’s flight from Berlin to Shanghai in…
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 …) Lüneburg (Germany) Dortmund (Germany) Shanghai (China) England--Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form: Photographs. Letters. CONTAINER LIST Series 1…
217. Oral history interview with Werner Epstein
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.268 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0268
Date:
interview: 1992 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
218. Oral history interview with Joan Schwab
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0589 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0058
Date:
interview: 1996 November 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joan Schwab (née Nussbaum), born on March 24, 1926, describes living in the Tiergarten area of Berlin, Germany; her memories of Kristallnacht and how…
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 … full name of both of your parents? A: I was born on March 24, 1926, together with my brother Hans in Berlin, Germany. My parents were Israel Nusboum and…
219. Oral history interview with Guenter Lewy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.56.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0204
Date:
interview: 2013 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … said, all of a sudden I don't know why and how, developed this interest. And she came to Germany, stayed with us three weeks and traveled. And in Berlin…
220. Oral history interview with Ruth Salton
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0201
Date:
interview: 1990 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth Salton, born on January 22, 1927 in Berlin, Germany, describes her family and childhood; noticing a change in her life during the Passover…
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 … Q: OK. We're on. Would you tell me your name please? A: My name is Ruth Salton. Q: Where were you born and when? A: I was born in Berlin. Q: What year…
221. Black cloth cap owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.12
Date:
use: after 1938
… in prewar Berlin, Germany, during World War II in Shanghai, China, where Carl and Elsa Victor passed away, and then to Peter after the war in Shanghai…
222. Oral history interview with Peter E. Engler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.220 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0220
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Peter E. Engler, born on September 12, 1934 in Berlin, Germany, discusses arriving in Shanghai, China with his parents in February 1939 and life in…
223. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
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…Margot Wind was born July 24, 1919 in Berlin, Germany to Yakov and Sabina Wind. She had four brothers: Eduard (b. 1909), Heinrich “Hy” (b. 1910…
224. Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger correspondence relating to the rescue of Manfred Loewin
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0890 | RG Number: RG-19.040
Date:
1933-1944
…Contains information about the efforts of Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger to rescue members of the Loewin and Neumann families of Berlin, Germany.…
225. Leather tag stamped with the US seal containing a photograph owned by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.430.12
Date:
received: after 1940 March
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--Biography.…
226. Oral history interview with Eva Arond
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.96.1 | RG Number: RG-50.219.0001
Date:
interview: 2015 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … two younger sisters. Her younger brother and one younger sister emigrated to New York City in the mid-1930s. She exchanged meat ration stamps for ration…
227. Oral history interview with Hanna Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.18 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0018
Date:
interview: 1992 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 …, her husband and children went back to Poland and then on to Germany in order to reach the American occupied zone. They got passports to America and…
228. Oral history interview with Dan Reis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.469 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0469
Date:
interview: 1989 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Israel--Emigration and immigration.…
229. Oral history interview with Walter Borchheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.11 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0011
Date:
interview: 2010 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany--Emigration and immigration.…
230. Oral history interview with Hannah Witton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.48 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0048
Date:
interview: 1984 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hannah Witton (née Schab, formerly Witkowski), born December 20, 1919 in Berlin, Germany, describes her family’s background; her childhood and being…
231. Oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0005
Date:
interview: 1995 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … liberation, in the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen which is about 20 kilometers outside of Berlin. And by that time I had survived the death march but lost…
232. Oral history interview with Regina Laks Gelb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.28 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0410
Date:
interview: 2001 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where her sister Chris married Miles Lerman; her life in Berlin, Germany after April 1946; and her immigration to the United States in February 1947.…
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 … was basically from Silesia and brought up, under the, under, you know, western Poland was occupied by Germany. You know, Poland was partitioned in the…
233. Oral history interview with Peter Ernst Feigl
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0272
Date:
interview: 1995 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Peter Ernst Feigl, born on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany, describes having a happy, comfortable childhood; leaving Berlin with his family and…
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 … Austrian Navy during the first world war. He studied engineering and was a mechanical engineer and at the time I was born, he was living in Berlin working…
234. Oral history interview with Robert Behr
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0651
Date:
interview: 2018 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … Army, hoping to be assigned to Berlin so he could care for his mother. He was placed in Germany and we close with this photo of Bob and his mother in…
235. Oral history interview with Gabriele Silten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1454 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1454
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … Berlin as such really couldntt sense anything. 22 We left in 1938 and the first thing really remember of 23 leaving is going on boat and going to Holland…
236. Oral history interview with Herbert Oppenheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.53 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0053
Date:
interview: 1983 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp survivors; being marched by the Russians and escaping with a friend; going to Frankfurt, Germany; meeting his future wife; and immigrating to the…
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 …:19:00 There were 60 million people in Germany. They couldn't all be bad. Berlin was a cosmopolitan city and people recognized difference. He was a…
237. Oral history interview with Lee Merel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.78 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0078
Date:
interview: 1992 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany--Emigration and immigration.…
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 … was born in Berlin, Germany on April 7, 1924. The Merel family was Orthodox and consisted of Lee, his parets and his sister. In 1935, Lee's father…
238. Oral history interview with Peter Kory
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.50.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0689
Date:
interview: 2013 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Peter Kory, born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his birthplace; immigrating to Brussels, Belgium with his parents when he was one year old…
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 …:55,920 I was born in Berlin, Germany, lived there 21 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,350 till I was about a year and a half-- 22 00:00:58,350 --> 00:01:02…
239. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… eight other children passed the exam and were allowed to emigrate from Germany. On November 23, 1940, Herta and the rest of the children said goodbye to…
240. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Basel
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
241. Oral history interview with Judit Herskovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.378 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0378
Date:
interview: 2000 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Israel--Emigration and immigration.…
242. Oral history interview with Doris Fuchs Greenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0086
Date:
interview: 1990 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work; the Russian troops liberating her in May 1945 at the farm; going to Berlin, Germany and then Bergen-Belsen after the war as a displaced person…
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 … camp near, near Berlin. I forgot the name of the camp. that rumors were we were going to stay there and then we didn't stay there and again with the…
243. Oral history interview with Edith Stevens
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.368 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0368
Date:
interview: 1992 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interview describes Ms. Stevens's childhood in Berlin, Germany; her father's loss of job after the Nazi's rise to power and having to leave…
244. Hand sewn navy blue skirt with a pleated front made by a German Jewish woman
2002.223.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.223.1
Date:
creation: 1936-1937
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…
245. Oral history interview with Lisa Dawidowicz Murik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0317 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0168
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from the Soviet Union, during her stay; leaving for Germany, where she and her future husband spent time in German displaced persons camps in Berlin and…
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 … with us. But after a while he stayed with us. And then from there we left to _ód_, and we were there for awhile. And from there, we went to Germany to a…
246. Oral history interview with Werner Barasch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.392 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0392
Date:
interview: 2001 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… had founded the first mass merchandising firm in Eastern Germany; moving to Berlin with his family circa 1921; living in a beautiful house and receiving…
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 … merchandising firm in Eastern Germany and, although he lost money and a few of his stores after World War I, the Barasch family still managed to do very well…
247. Oral history interview with Irene Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.681 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0681
Date:
interview: 1994 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Irene Frank discusses her early life in Berlin, Germany; her parents’ heritage and her identity issues that resulted; her experiences in Berlin; her…
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 … dialect. But you've got a big mouth. You must be from Berlin. See? Yeah, there're only two places in Germany where they speak high German-- Hanover and…
248. Oral history interview with Ursula Angress
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.793 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0793
Date:
interview: 1990 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Fred Angress. Ursula Angress was born Ursula Lindner in Berlin, Germany in 1923. Her parents divorced when Ms. Angress was eight years old and her…
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 …. It's nice to have you here. Thank you. Would you tell me where you were born and when you were born? In Berlin, Germany in 1923. And how long did you…
249. Oral history interview with Siegfried Peilte
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1250 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1250
Date:
interview: 1990 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… move to Berlin, Germany when Labischin became part of Poland; his education; his work as a banker and a store manager; Kristallnacht; the Jewish…
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 … bring the book. could have shown you the temple how it looked. THIS IS BOOK OF WHAT TEMPLES IN GERMANY IN BERLIN Jews in Berlin before and now. Ive taken…
250. Coat design, Jaffa/ Ilse, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.12
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Jaffa /Ilse
…Germany--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.…