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201. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Dytlow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.H.0774 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0323
Date:
interview: 1995 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
202. Oral history interview with Sylvia Kolski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.369.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0114
Date:
interview: 1990 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … in school when they 1 beginning of the Second World War September 1, 1939 USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0114 2 were young boys. My grandmother died when she…
203. Architectural study of Hotel des Invalides by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.153
Date:
creation: 1949 September 13
depiction: 1949 September 13
Artwork Title:
Hotel des Invalides, September 13, 1949
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
204. Wenceslas J. Wagner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0027 | RG Number: RG-23.006
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1989
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
205. Oral history interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.2 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0002
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … 1939. The outbreak of the war changed the course of his life. 139In the Fall of 1939, he started work at the Post Office with a very low salary. From the…
206. Oral history interview with Benjamin Fisk
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0029
Date:
interview: 1982 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
207. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0395
Date:
interview: 2012 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
208. Oral history interview with David Altholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.56 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0056
Date:
interview: 1984 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … there until the war broke out. 49 00:02:49,810 --> 00:02:52,350 We did of course go out on vacations, 50 00:02:52,350 --> 00:02:56,460 visiting my…
209. Maria Klein papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.160.1
Date:
creation: 1941
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.…
210. Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding
2006.44.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.44.2
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
211. Nail clipper used in a concentration camp
2005.457.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.17
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Polish.…
212. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved candelabra from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Turek.…
213. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee
1989.277.18_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.277.18 a-b
Date:
issue: 1949
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
214. Wojskowy Punkt Odbioru Firmy Hasag Zakłady Metalowe Sp. z o.o. Budowa Urządzeń Częstochowa (Sygn. 192/2)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.248 | RG Number: RG-15.319
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Heeres-Abnahmestelle b.d. Firma Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke G.m.b.H Apparatebau Tschenstochau
Military Collection Center Hasag Hardware Ltd Facilities Construction in Częstochowa
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Cze̜stochowa.…
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 …--Częstochowa. Forced labor--Poland--Częstochowa. Jews--Poland--Cze̜stochowa--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Cz Poland--History…
215. Oral history interview with Stanley Bronner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.4 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0004
Date:
interview: 1983 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … jewelry trade. 12:00 When the war broke out, things changed for the worse. 13:00 He talks about his father reading Mein Kamph in 1933. His father thought to…
216. Oral history interview with Blanka Rothschild
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0281
Date:
interview: 1994 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … about what your childhood was like before the war came. A: I was born in August of 1922. I was the only child. My family was very close, well educated. I…
217. Hat brush used by Alexander Stankiewicz, a barber in a concentration camp
2005.457.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.31
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Polish.…
218. Oral history interview with Jan Zamorski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.284 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0284
Date:
interview: 2009 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
219. Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross
2000.226.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.226.2
Date:
commemoration: 1944 May
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
220. Oral history interview with Sara Eisen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.12 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0012
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … graduated in June. And September '49 the war start. What were your parents' plans? What did they want you-- They wanted-- they want, no, I couldn't continue…
221. Sketches of penguin, lions, and faces by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.142
Date:
creation: approximately 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Sketches of Penguins and Lions, August 1949
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
222. Oral history interview with Pincus Kolender
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.21 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0021
Date:
interview: 1991 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
223. Oral history interview with Jerzy Węgierski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.225 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0225
Date:
interview: 2005 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
224. Oral history interview with Halina Peabody
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0532
Date:
interview: 2015 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … tell us a little bit about where you grew up, your life before the war. >> Halina Peabody: Sure. OK. I was born in Krakow, as you mentioned. It was a…
225. Red gift box owned by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.16 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.16
Date:
use: after 1942 August
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
226. Damaged stained glass window likely from the desecrated Tempel Synagogue
Object | Accession Number: 1990.287.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-before 1990
creation: approximately 1875-approximately 1925
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Krakow.…
227. Oral history interview with Enrique Don
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0291
Date:
interview: 1994 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … Second World War. I finished Friday, and Sunday in the morning started the War, five in the morning. Q: Do you want to tell me about that and what happened…
228. Oral history interview with Zelda Piekarska Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0336 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0041
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … think - and mine father and we had a restaurant. Q: Can you tell us how your life began to change when the war came? A: I remember when the Germans…
229. Oral history interview with Gina Sack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.4 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0003
Date:
interview: 1983 August 25-1983 November 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
230. Oral history interview with Norman Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0302 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0052
Date:
interview: 1999 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 …; starting his construction company; being a member of the George Washington Legion; going to Israel; his Jewish identity; Communism and the Cold War; his…
231. Oral history interview with Jerzy Kowalczuk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.338 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0338
Date:
interview: 2018 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
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 … entire villa became at their disposal. This move also marks the start of the war period, since World War II broke out in September 1, 1939. On that very…
232. Oral history interview with Henryk Maliszewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.171 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0171
Date:
interview: 2002 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
233. Oral history interview with Gotfryd Wieczorek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.43 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0043
Date:
interview: 1998 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
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 … after the war. There was a stretcher, where they placed dead bodies on, and then there were thrown into the furnace. [01]:06:33:19 – [01]:14:24:08 06:34…
234. Challah cover with a handpainted crest of lions with a crown with a Star of David created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2012.443.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.443.4
Date:
creation: 1948
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Krakow--Personal narratives.…
235. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
236. Reproduction of a spoon and box smuggled out of Warsaw ghetto with an infant
2003.88.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.88.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 January 05
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.…
237. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish Lithuanian survivor
1989.62.6 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.62.6
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź--Personal narratives, Lithuanian.…
238. Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Okręgowego w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 418)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.107 | RG Number: RG-15.207M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
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 …, Administration of. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists…
239. Oral history interview with Genia Klapholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.15 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 …, Genia Date: July 29, 1981 SUBJECT HEADINGS World War 1939-1945- Jewish - Personal narratives, Female Bochnia Ghetto Aid by non-Jews Szebnie Auschwitz…
240. Oral history interview with Rose Fine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.6 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0006
Date:
interview: 1982 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … the outbreak of the war. I attended public school, Hebrew school. JF: Could you describe for me your experience in the public school? RF: Well, we felt…
241. Oral history interview with Isak Levenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.17 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0017
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 …,140 My father was 43 in the First World War. 34 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:01,770 Then we were four orphans-- 35 00:02:01,770 --> 00:02:07,140 two brothers…
242. Oral history interview with Samuel Makower
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0111 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0388
Date:
interview: 1998 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 …: Okay. Tell me a little bit about your life before the war, your family, your town. A: The town was a little, typical shtetl. The -- although the majority…
243. Oral history interview with Barbara Bednarska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.267 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0267
Date:
interview: 2005 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
244. Malah (Malach) family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2008.25
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1950
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Będzin.…
245. Dinner spoon used by an inmate in a slave labor camp
2008.228.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.17
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
246. Double sided drawing of nude females by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.145
Date:
creation: 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Double Sided Drawing of Female Nudes, September 1949
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
247. Railroad spike from Treblinka concentration camp
2004.705.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.705.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1943
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.…
248. Zbiór dokumentów z okresu II wojny światowej (Sygn.1978)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.328.1 | RG Number: RG-15.482
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Collection of documents from the period of World War II
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Registers.…
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 …. Jews‐‐Poland‐‐History‐‐20th century‐‐Registers. Holocaust Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Poland‐‐Registers. CONTAINER LIST NOTE: Polish inventory…
249. Oral history interview with Dora Freilich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.59 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0059
Date:
interview: 1996 June 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…
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 … kindest person in the world, but to us, after a war like this, you know, I want to keep it close with our people.” And she said she wants to bring him over…
250. Oral history interview with Henry Greenbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.4 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0004
Date:
interview: 1988 May 06
Subtitle:
Henry Greenbaum Remembers
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.…