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201. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … other languages, too. I don't know-- I think probably some Polish and Romanian mixed in. Well, that would be typical for that part of the world. Right…
202. Oral history interview with Karin Reetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.20 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0020
Date:
interview: 1998-1999
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
203. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1937
received: 1987 July
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
204. Star of David patch worn by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate
2005.579.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.5
Date:
use: after 1941 September-1945 April 15
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
205. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …, 1997 SUBJECT HEADINGS Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, female. Farms--Germany. Holocaust survivors. Jewish businesspeople…
206. Pink cloth Torah scroll cover saved by a refugee from Nazi Germany
1993.85.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.85.1 b
Date:
creation: 1934
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Germany--Personal narratives.…
207. Small straw purse made by Ella Hirsch for one of her sisters while interned
2004.233.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.2
Date:
received: 1940 October-1941 September
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
208. Blue crocheted change purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner
1990.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.57.2
Date:
received: 1941 January-1941 September
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
209. Oral history interview with Richard Strauss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.39 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0039
Date:
interview: 1989 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … German gymnasium (high school) unless they could prove their fathers had been on the front lines in World War I. Strauss's grandfather had been an officer…
210. Monaural stethoscope used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
2005.579.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.20
Date:
use: 1943-1949 August
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
211. Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.121 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0121
Date:
interview: 1985 June 03
interview: 1985 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … mother, I remember vividly her stories of World War I. I don't know if you want to go into that. Yes. If you don't mind. Not at all. She told these to you…
212. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Lassers
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.38 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0038
Date:
interview: 1986 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … over Europe. They only knew what was happening to German Jews. She suggests that the Germans were always militaristic. Their defeat in World War I was a…
213. Oral history interview with Helen Bamber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.443 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0482
Date:
interview: 2003 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …, where the message to everyone was to -- to just put the past to rest and let’s move forward. A new world is born, the war is over, let’s get on with life…
214. Oral history interview with Susan Warsinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0354 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0039
Date:
interview: 1996 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …,080 --> 00:05:43,150 That's just it, you know? 116 00:05:43,150 --> 00:05:48,100 Here we were in the middle of a World War 117 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:52…
215. Monaural wooden stethoscope used by a Jewish German refugee and US Army medic
2003.451 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.2
Date:
acquired: after 1932
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
216. Oral history interview with Ruth Meyerowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0186 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0022
Date:
interview: 1998 September 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … ca -- she came, actually -- no, she came after the fi -- right after the first World War. Q: Mm. A: She was o -- much older than my father. And she had…
217. Ruth Tsotsis collection
2012.62.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2012.62.1
Date:
inclusive: 1990-2012
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
218. UNRRA embroidered patch worn by a survivor and DP camp relief worker
2005.579.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.6
Date:
use: 1946 March-1947 June
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
219. Oral history interview with Kurt Pauly
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.106.0079
Date:
interview: 1997 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …. And my – and my mother’s twin sister, who died of a – of the influenza epidemics after the first World War. All these people are buried there, at http…
220. Oral history interview with Hertha Beese
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.54 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0054
Date:
interview: 1983 October 12-1983 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … (SPD) and trade unions. Hertha attended schools in Berlin, pre World War I with Jews and Catholics. She was forced to participate in Protestant religious…
221. Oral history interview with Fred Goldman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.217 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0146
Date:
interview: 2001 November 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … New York. He met and married Ruth Schuster, a Jewish women who was also from Fürth. When America joined the war, Goldman began working in a uniform…
222. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
223. Oral history interview with Tamar Berger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.11 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0011
Date:
interview: 1992 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … of the Israeli War of Independence. After the war, she cared for her ailing father until his death in 1949. END OF TAPE http://collections…
224. Oral history interview with Ilse Awin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.145 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0145
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … Reunion - a meeting in October 1991 at the Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia of refugees who found refuge in Shanghai during World War II. https://collections…
225. Oral history interview with Eva Rogazinsky Sommer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.69 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0069
Date:
interview: 2011 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …”) in the rickshaw seat, and drive him. (The kulis were panicked!) In August 1945, the army went back home. She assisted in the war crime trials after…
226. Oral history interview with Hugo Herzog
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.154.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0222
Date:
interview: 2014 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … Frontsoldaten. That means the organization of the Jews who were fighting to win World War II-- World War I. And they had a newspaper. OK. And they also advertised…
227. Torah binder with his name and birthdate saved by a young German Jewish refugee
1993.22.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.3
Date:
commemoration: 1924 July 27
creation: 1924
emigration: 1937 June
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Germany--Personal narratives.…
228. Oral history interview with Susan Taube
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0014
Date:
interview: 2000 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
229. Colored pencil drawing of barracks at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate
2004.233.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.233.5
Date:
creation: 1940 October-1941 September
Artwork Title:
Barracks at Camp de Gurs
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
230. Oral history interview with Diny K. Adkins
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.20 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0020
Date:
interview: 1992 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …'s a psychiatric hospital in Holland, where they have people who were in World War II, and also people who were in the underground, because they went…
231. Oral history interview with Susan Taube
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0073
Date:
interview: 2002 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
232. Aluminum pitcher used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate
1989.306.15 right
Object | Accession Number: 1989.306.15
Date:
emigration: approximately 1939 June
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
233. Drawing of a stepped roof building and houses by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.78
Date:
creation: 1920-1939
Artwork Title:
Narrow Building and Adjacent Houses Surrounded by Fields
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
234. Drawing of two buildings by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.24
Date:
creation: 1933
Artwork Title:
Fenced house with shed
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
235. Oral history interview with Alice Lang Rosen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.358.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0194
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … the tail end of the Second World War, and Margot... They met each other, and they fell in love. And when when his term of duty was up, he went back to…
236. Pillowcase with cutwork flowers and the embroidered initials FL used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1933
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
237. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic
1989.285.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.285.2
Date:
use: 1943 June-1945 April
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
238. Oral history interview with Felicia Broh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.6 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0006
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … you leave Germany before the outbreak of the war? No. Yes. Yes, while we were on the boat the war started. I see. How did-- how did it come about? What…
239. Oral history interview with Margot Sigler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.529 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0529
Date:
interview: 1989 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
240. Oral history interview with Ursula Michels
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.62 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0062
Date:
interview: 2009 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
241. Oral history interview with Hans Coppi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.16 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0016
Date:
interview: 1999
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
242. Oral history interview with Ronald Hauser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.30 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0030
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … Jewish and that continued to be friends throughout that time. But basically, I remember the problem of dealing with a relatively hostile world. I mean, the…
243. Oral history interview with Gertrud Egloffstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.24 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0024
Date:
interview: 1988 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … first drugstore.) It was close to the station of Stichin (ph) in Berlin. 06:00 Her family did not suffer after World War I. 07:00 No one had a strong…
244. Ink sketch of a canal lock by a German Jewish female designer
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.105
Date:
creation: approximately 1935
Artwork Title:
Canal Lock
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
245. Monogrammed tallit pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.1
Date:
received: approximately 1927
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
246. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
2000.258.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.258.1
Date:
use: approximately 1939 March-1947 November
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Jewish.…
247. Sijes Research: Zigeuners [Romani] (Fond 263b, 4a-4c)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.27 | RG Number: RG-41.015
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1979
…Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Germany--Personal narratives.…
248. 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
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …'s father, my grandfather, had a men's clothing manufacturing concern. And my mother told me that during World War I, my grandfather was a great patriot…
249. Oral history interview with Emmy Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.237.2 | RG Number: RG-50.970.0001
Date:
interview: 1993 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … completed by the time that World War II broke out in September 1939, and they were unable to join Emmy in Britain. Emmy’s parents were deported from Darmstadt…
250. Oral history interview with Bernhard Ebstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.11 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0011
Date:
interview: 1986 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 … - probably before most of his aunts and uncles were born. On his mother's side, the family comes from what is now Poland, but which was before World War I…