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101. Oral history interview with Irving Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.130 | RG Number: RG-50.548.0001
Date:
interview: 2001 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Irving Goldberg describes his childhood experiences in Poland and life in the Vilna ghetto.…
102. Oral history interview with Sheyma Itzkovich Lipitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1283.24 | RG Number: RG-50.378.0024
Date:
interview: 1995 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… War II in 1939; being called into the Polish Army and sent to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was briefly taken prisoner by Soviet troops and released…
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 … again called into Polish army and sent to Vilno. There met Soviet troops. Taken as prisoner by Soviets. Later released. Goes to town of Skidel. Gets…
103. Oral history interview with Boris Nemko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.294 | RG Number: RG-50.678.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by the Russian Army; his return to Vilna; going to Poland where he found devastation; discovering that no none from his family survived the war; the…
104. Oral history interview with Rochelle Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rochelle Slivka, born in 1922 in Vilnius, Lithuania, discusses her family and early life in Poland; how her friends and neighbors turned on the…
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 … Vilno, where I was born, because he was born in Poland and he had a sister in Poland, in Zamusht. And th- the rest of his family were in the Soviet Union…
105. Oral history interview with Alter Pekier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.168 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0168
Date:
interview: 1992 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with his brother Berel in Kletsk, Belarus; moving with the yeshiva to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) at the direction of Rabbi Kotler after the Soviet Union…
106. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0150
Date:
interview: 1990 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lilly Margules, born in April 1924, in Vilnius, Lithuania, describes her family; the death of her mother and going to live with her aunt, father, and…
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 … Q: We're on camera. A: Yes. Q: Would you tell me your name please? A: My name is Lily Margules, and I was born April 19, 1924, in Vilno, Poland…
107. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
…Jakob Dymant (Jan, 1914-1986) was born on May 15, 1914 in Brzeziny, Poland to Chana and Uryn Hersz Dymant. He completed his law studies in Warsaw…
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 …. Topical terms Jews--Poland--Brzeziny. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugees--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish refugees--Japan--Kobe…
108. Towarzystwo Popierania Żydowskiej Sztuki Scenicznej w Wilnie (Fond 296)
Document | Accession Number: 2021.21.1 | RG Number: RG-26.072
Date:
bulk: 1919-1941
inclusive: 1913-1941
Alternate Title:
Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts in Vilnius
… performances and tours, cooperation with other Jewish public organizations in Wilno and Poland, applications for permission to hold performances and concerts…
109. Oral history interview with Blanche Lubecki Juris
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.3 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0003
Date:
interview: 1994 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for a dressmaker; experiencing some antisemitism; not being very religious; marrying Isaac Juris; moving to Radom, Poland with her husband at the…
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 …. She married Isaac Juris and they moved to Radom, Poland when World War II began. Her father’s best friend took them to Radom, and had been very nice to…
110. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
…Teodor Scheres (Tuvia Sheres) was born on February 6, 1920, in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania), to Jewish parents Efraim and Peshe (Pesia) Liliansky…
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 … information. Processing history: Adam Fielding, February 2016 Biographical note Tuvia Sheres (later Ted Sheres; 1920‐2002) was born in Wilno, Poland…
111. Oral history interview with Hinda Kibort
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0097.4 | RG Number: RG-50.043.0004
Date:
interview: 1982 June
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Vilnius, Lithuania; the Russians arresting whole families and transferring them to Siberia; the German invasion; antisemitism in Lithuania; losing their…
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 … Germany. We had no financial means and no relatives in the West to go to so we remained. In 1939 the war started in Poland and in June 1940 the Russians…
112. Oral history interview with Rachel Gliksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.189 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0189
Date:
interview: 1994 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… January 1945; trying to return to Vilnius and the repatriation trains that moved from country to country; going to Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania…
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 … RG.50-120 *0189 3 Tapes GLIKSMAN, RACHEL Born May 1924 to Rosa and Schmuel Halperin in Vilnius. Family very well-to-do in the paint and turpentine…
113. Oral history interview with Ada Ustjanauskas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.276 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0527
Date:
interview: 2008 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… find their house; moving to Vilnius, where she and her mother lived in a house immediately outside of its ghetto while her father lived inside the ghetto…
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 … father’s brother. My mother’s brother found my father’s brother in Vilnius on the street. That’s how we got in touch. So it’s -- it’s a -- they were very…
114. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.334 | RG Number: RG-67.042M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1950
bulk: 1939-1944
…Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)…
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 … projected work on Jewish libraries in Poland. Prepared in Vilna in 1940, and sent to his brother Pinkhes Schwartz, New York, in small shipments of regular…
115. Oral history interview with Shlomo Levin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.305 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0305
Date:
interview: 1996 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shlomo Levin, born in the early 1930s in Kovno, Poland (Kaunas, Lithuania), describes his well-educated parents; being in a Betar youth group; the…
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 …’s father was born in Latvia in 1899; his mother was born in Vilna in 1904. 01:03:17 His parents met and married in Kovno, where they were studying. Both had…
116. Oral history interview with Miriam Kabacznik Shulman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0417 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0375
Date:
interview: 1996 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Miriam Kabacznik Shulman, born on June 26, 1918, in Eišiškės, Poland (Lithuania), describes her childhood; her father’s death of typhus during World…
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 …. Well, a lot of friends, young. We were in, we were well off in Poland, didn't have to worry about anything and until it came the day that it started that…
117. Oral history interview with Yocheved Arie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0320 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0010
Date:
interview: 1989 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Yocheved Arie, born in Vilnius, Lithuania on February 15, 1928, discusses the German occupation of Lithuania; how her father and brother were taken…
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 …ARIE, YOCHEVED RG-50.030*0010 Two Videotapes In Yiddish and English Abstract Yocheved Arie was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on February 15, 1928…
118. Oral history interview with Shep Zitler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.10 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0010
Date:
interview: 2004 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shep Zitler, born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1917, describes the beginning of the war; being drafted into the Polish Army six months before the war…
119. Oral history interview with Gad Rozenblat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.257 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0257
Date:
interview: 1994 February 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Sofiovka, Ukraine, Bragin, Belarus, Delatin, Ukraine, and the Carpats; being wounded in battle in January 1944 and being taken by carriage to Łódź, Poland…
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 … organizations were stopped. Property owners and Zionists were sent to Siberia. He went to Lemberg, others went to Vilnius. 1.49 Describes life under communist…
120. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
…’s youngest sister Roza was born in 1917 in Vilna. In 1920, Vilna was annexed by Poland. Salomon graduated from a Tarbut school, a secular Hebrew language…
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 … Slowes (1909-?) was born in Grajewo, Poland, to dentists Mosze Slowes and Malka Jezierski Slowes. His family moved to Vilna in 1914, he trained to be a…