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201. Oral history interview with Stanley Grosman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.150 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0150
Date:
interview: 1990 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… to the Blizin concentration camp; his clandestine escape from Blizin; his postwar time in Riga, Latvia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Poland; Berlin and France…
202. Oral history interview with Vladimir Izvestnyi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.456.29 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0029
Date:
interview: 2004 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vladimir Izvestnyi, born in 1928 in Dekšis, Latvia, describes the German capture of Riga in 1941; the treatment of local townspeople under German…
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 …, Vladimir Izvestnyi, former investigator and a head of the Investigation Department of the KGB of the Latvian SSR in Riga, talks about his investigation of…
203. Oral history interview with Max Metzger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.420 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0420
Date:
interview: 1981 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… dealer; life in Dorsten under Nazi rule; getting married in 1937 to Helda Norger [PH]; the birth of their daughter; the war; being deported to Riga Ghetto…
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 … train for five or six days, without food, and finally arriving at the Riga Ghetto. Max describes the SS hitting them as they exited the trains and being…
204. Oral history interview with Trude Meyer and Jenny Thompson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.525 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0525
Date:
interview: 2002 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… describes her family's deportation to Riga ghetto in Latvia in 1941, their subsequent transport to Kaiserwald concentration camp in 1943, and their…
205. Oral history interview with Walter Lachman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.64 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0064
Date:
interview: 1992 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… open truck to a railroad yard; his journey east by freight car which took seven to eight days; the conditions in the freight car; his arrival in Riga…
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 … got to where we're going. As it turned out, we arrived in Riga, which was then the capital of Latvia. And as we got off those freight cars or cattle…
206. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.3
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…Elja Heifecs was born December 5, 1912, to Samuel and Zilla Epelajtis in Riga, Latvia. His mother’s family was from Lithuania. He had one brother…
207. Pin issued to a camp survivor with Buchenwald memorial Bell Tower and flags
2005.567.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 11
received: 1969
…Elja Heifecs was born December 5, 1912, to Samuel and Zilla Epelajtis in Riga, Latvia. His mother’s family was from Lithuania. He had one brother…
208. Handmade prisoner badge worn by a Latvian Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.567.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 April
…Elja Heifecs was born December 5, 1912, to Samuel and Zilla Epelajtis in Riga, Latvia. His mother’s family was from Lithuania. He had one brother…
209. Oral history interview with Inge Auerbacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.169.42 | RG Number: RG-90.141.0042
Date:
interview: 2021 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Forced labor--Latvia--Riga.…
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 … leave Germany; only briefly being allowed to attend a Jewish school; her family and grandmother being transported to Riga; her parents doing forced labor…
210. Oral history interview with Faye Szander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1276 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1276
Date:
interview: 1986 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, mother and young son; being sent to the Kaiserwald labor camp in Riga, Latvia; her grief at losing her son and mother to certain death; her experiences in…
211. Oral history interview with Lya Galperin
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.55 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0055
Date:
interview: 1992 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in 1945; her postwar life in the Soviet Union; her marriage and life in Riga; her mother's attempts at helping the family immigrate to the west; and…
212. Oral history interview with Lya Galperin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.30 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0030
Date:
interview: 1992 April 22
interview: 1992 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… life in the Soviet Union; her marriage; her life in Riga, Latvia; her mother's attempts at helping the family immigrate to the west; and her eventual…
213. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
2009.297.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2
Date:
use: after 1949-1985 August 15
…, born on November 22, 1930, and Mendel, born on August 8, 1933. The family lived in Riga, where Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony…
214. Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3
Date:
use: 1944 August 16-1945 April 11
…). On September 3, Grunia was transported to Dondangen II (Poperwahlen) forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. In early July…
215. Oral history interview with Rosa Koklin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.553.3 | RG Number: RG-50.998.0003
Date:
interview: 2017 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rosa Koklin, born in 1920 in Stockholm, Sweden, describes her family; having an older sister and a younger brother; her family's emigration from Riga…
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 …Rosa Koklin Born 1920 in Stockholm. She had an older sister and a younger brother. The family came from Riga in the 1910s, a few years before she was…
216. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0445
Date:
interview: 2013 July 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … Mandel. Manny was born to a religious Jewish family on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just 3 when World War II started. Though he was born in Riga…
217. 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
…; working for a children's home in 1941; working in a U-boat factory in the fall of 1941; being sent to the Riga ghetto in Latvia; walking to Kaiserwald in…
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 … the Riga Ghetto. She worked as a house servant and was able to steal food and remain relatively clean. In 1943, the majority of the ghetto was…
218. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0687
Date:
interview: 2019 April 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … born to a religious Jewish family on May 8, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just 3 when World War II started. Although he was born in Riga, Latvia, Manny…
219. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0529
Date:
interview: 2015 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … prepared a brief slide presentation to help with the introduction. Manny was born to a religious Jewish family on May 8, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just…
220. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0313
Date:
interview: 2010 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
221. Ilse Schoenholz biographical sketch
1995.A.0403 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0403
Date:
creation: circa 1990
…' store was boycotted when the Nazis came to power, and she was sent to England on a Kindertransport in August 1939. Her parents were deported to the Riga…
222. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0274
Date:
interview: 2009 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
223. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0229
Date:
interview: 2008 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
224. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0335
Date:
interview: 2011 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
225. Oral history interview with Hannah Rath
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.37.21 | RG Number: RG-50.765.0021
Date:
interview: 2005 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent with her family to a ghetto in Riga, Latvia in 1941; how the ghetto prisoners were taken to Kaiserwald in 1943; being forced to shower and have…
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 … Kristallnacht -The Night of Broken Glass • Survived the Riga ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof concentration camps • Liberated by the Russians in 1945…
226. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0652
Date:
interview: 2018 May 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … baby that we see here is little Emanuel Mandel. Manny was born to a religious Jewish family May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia. His parents were not Latvian…
227. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0485
Date:
interview: 2014 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … born in Riga, Latvia, Manny's family were Hungarian Jews who moved to Latvia because of his father's work. This is a portrait of Yehuda Mandel and Ella…
228. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0540
Date:
interview: 2016 March 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … family on May 8th, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just 3 when World War II started in 1939. Although he was born in Riga, Latvia, Manny's family were…
229. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0403
Date:
interview: 2012 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … Emanuel (Manny) Mandel Born May 8, 1936, Riga, Latvia Manny was born to a religious Jewish family in the port city of Riga, Latvia. Shortly after…
230. Oral history interview with Manny Mandel
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0628
Date:
interview: 2017 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Emanuel Mandel, born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, describes his family moving to Budapest, Hungary when he was three months old; his father’s work as a…
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 … on May 8, 1936 in Riga, Latvia. Manny was just 3 when World War II started. Although he was born in Riga, Latvia, Manny's family were Hungarian Jews…
231. Oral history interview with Anna Wollner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0439 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0011
Date:
interview: 1994 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her friend Suzy, who taught her to sabotage the materials they were working on; being moved to Riga, Latvia by boat; building roads out of Jewish…
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 … women-- your-- young women. Yes. And somehow, fortunately-- I think it was a fortune, that you were transferred to Riga, to Riga, in Latvia. And that was…
232. Nathan Rohloff photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.251.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…Nathan Rohloff (Natan Roloff) was Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg’s paternal grandfather. The Roloff family lived in Riga, Latvia and Natan was…
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 … scouts; location: Riga, Latvia; in Latvian .2 Photographic postcard; with symbol of scouts and words of scouts oath; verso: blue ink stamp of photographer…
233. Oral history interview with Ludwig Shonberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.53 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0053
Date:
interview: 1989 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; unsuccessfully trying to emigrate; having to do forced labor building roads and in mines from 1939 until 1940; being transported by train to Riga, Latvia in a…
234. Oral history interview with Carolina Taitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.23 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0179
Date:
interview: 2010 January 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Germans came in 1941; being forced to live in the ghetto in Riga, Latvia with five people to a room and little food; getting hit in the eye when a German…
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 …,930 Riga. 16 00:00:51,930 --> 00:00:54,420 Where in Russia where you born, though? 17 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:55,830 I don't remember that name. 18 00:00:55…
235. Oral history interview with Sara Kohane
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.14 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0014
Date:
interview: 1990 April 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to a work camp in Riga, Latvia where she worked for a year; conditions in the camp and the psychological impact on her; working on a sugar beet farm…
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 … on the premises. This was Strassenhof. It was in Riga, in Latvia. There we worked for a year, almost a year. There have been some people taken away…
236. Boris Gurevich papers
2010.125.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.125.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1944
…Boris Gurevich was born to Yaakov and Maria (Musia) Gurevich in Riga, Latvia. He was the youngest of three children with an older brother, Samuel…
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 …: Colleen Benoit, March 2016 Biographical note Boris Gurevich was born to Yaakov and Maria (Musia) Gurevich in Riga, Latvia. He was the youngest of three…
237. Oral history interview with Nathan Zepell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.4.1 | RG Number: RG-90.218.0001
Date:
interview: 1981 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia).…
238. Presentation by Nathan Zepell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.4.3 | RG Number: RG-90.218.0003
Date:
Recorded: 1981 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia).…
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 … manufacturing?" And the weak Nathan says, "Well, that is easy for you to say, NATHAN A. ZEPELL, Santa Barbara, california, was born in Riga, Latvia and spent four…
239. Presentation by Nathan Zepell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.4.2 | RG Number: RG-90.218.0002
Date:
Recorded: 1981 May 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia).…
240. Oral history interview with Fred Wildauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.57 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0057
Date:
interview: 1982 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Biķernieki Forest Massacres, Rīga, Latvia, 1941-1944.…
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 …FRED WILDAUER Born 8/18/14 in Riga, Latvia. Father Aaron, and mother Sophie (Shifrah) Feitelsohn were shopkeepers. Orthodox, but often failed to keep…
241. Joseph and Loeb family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0035 | RG Number: RG-28.013.01
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1963
… to the postwar search by the donor's husband for his uncle, Eugen Weis, and to subsequent information that Weis had been deported from Dachau to Riga…
242. Oral history interview with William Safran
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.13.2 | RG Number: RG-90.118.0002
Date:
interview: 2019 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.…
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 … Question," the systematic mass destruction of Europe's Jews; being settled in a ghetto in Riga, Latvia’s capital, on the Baltic Sea; periodic roundups in the…
243. Oral history interview with David Phillips
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.169.4 | RG Number: RG-90.141.0004
Date:
interview: 2020 September
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Rīga.…
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 … (including David and two brothers) remains; Jeffrey learning that his parents had been taken to a camp in Riga and then to Stutthof concentration camp, where…
244. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish Latvian prisoner
2003.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 October-1945 February
… worked as a tailor, and began teaching Ber the trade at a young age. The family was poor, so in 1928, at age 13, Ber moved 150 miles to Riga to find work…
245. Wool blanket found by a Jewish Latvian concentration camp prisoner after escaping a death march
2003.174.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.174.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
… worked as a tailor, and began teaching Ber the trade at a young age. The family was poor, so in 1928, at age 13, Ber moved 150 miles to Riga to find work…
246. Viennese recipe book owned by a Jewish Austrian survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2019.611.7
Title:
Wiener Küche : 197 neue erprobte Rezepte für jeden Haushalt
Alternate Title:
Viennese cuisine: 197 new tried and tested recipes for every household
… certifications, and police reports, and Chaskel Geller's WWI medals credentials. Prior to Kristallnacht, Chaskel, Mathilde and their son Sigmund went to Riga…
247. German book of chocolate recipes owned by a Jewish Austrian survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2019.611.8
Title:
Die besten Schokoladen rezepte
Alternate Title:
The best chocolate recipes
… certifications, and police reports, and Chaskel Geller's WWI medals credentials. Prior to Kristallnacht, Chaskel, Mathilde and their son Sigmund went to Riga…
248. Training manual for milliners owned by a Jewish Austrian survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2019.611.11
Date:
publication: 1928
Title:
Bucher der Fortbildunschule
Alternate Title:
Books of the training school
Materialien kunde fur Modistinnen
… certifications, and police reports, and Chaskel Geller's WWI medals credentials. Prior to Kristallnacht, Chaskel, Mathilde and their son Sigmund went to Riga…
249. German prayer book owned by a Jewish Austrian survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2019.611.3
Date:
publication: 1878
Title:
Gebete der Israeliten
Alternate Title:
Prayers of the Israelites
… certifications, and police reports, and Chaskel Geller's WWI medals credentials. Prior to Kristallnacht, Chaskel, Mathilde and their son Sigmund went to Riga…
250. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
…, born on November 22, 1930, and Mendel, born on August 8, 1933. The family lived in Riga, where Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony…
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 … eventually became the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra. Percy married Margit Reklar (d. 1941) and had two children, Judith Basya (1930-1941…