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401. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.61
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
402. Selected papers of Georges Theunis
Document | Accession Number: 2011.38 | RG Number: RG-65.021M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … chemise File 751. American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee, World Jewish Congress et Belgian Jewish Representative Committee, 1941-1944. 1 liasse. File…
403. Oral history interview with Guido Calabresi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.266.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0942
Date:
interview: 2017 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… enacted by Mussolini against Jews in 1938; how his whole family survived WWII; the difficulty of leaving Italy after the war began; the difficulties of…
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 …-Americans, who are Jews, who are this, who are that, who are the other, and they'd see a dean who was also that. And so there's many Black girls now say…
404. Oral history interview with Lora Eliav
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0067.26 | RG Number: RG-50.968.0025
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
405. Poster with Allied leaders pulling a chariot with Stars of David
1998.139.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.139.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
I padroni servitori
Alternate Title:
The servant's masters
…. The German SS launched systematic deportations of Jews and engaged in severe reprisals against Italian partisans and civilians. The Allies broke the…
406. Oral history interview with Saul Kagan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.441 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0514
Date:
interview: 2007 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … majority of American Jews today are the -- the gr-grand -- the grand or gr -- or great-grandparents of those who ran from the pogroms of -- of -- of Tsarist…
407. Oral history interview with Aart Vos and Johanna Vos
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.92 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0092
Date:
interview: 1988 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Netherlands; deciding to take in Jews to hide during the war; their families judging them because of the risk they took hiding Jews; Hettie’s experiences as a…
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 … often she could get double coupons because she was German. Her extra coupons helped to feed a great many Jews in hiding. 19:00 The Jews did not get…
408. War Correspondents panel
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.3803 | Film ID: 2645
Film Title:
International Liberators Conference, 1981
Date:
Event: 10/27/1981
Production: 1981
Duration:
02:03:06
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
409. Oral history interview with Margaret Feiler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.2 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0001
Date:
interview: 1974 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Committee that relate to Austrian Jews, including telegrams, newspaper articles, letters, and reports. Part 2: The interview begins with discussion of the…
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 … about it because they would not understand, including the American Jews. Dr. Feiler recounts leaving Vienna on November 30, 1940, the reluctance of her…
410. White wool tallit with black stripes brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.3
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… lived in Dresden. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and established an antisemitic Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Richard and his…
411. Card made by two young internees to thank a US aid worker
2014.500.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2014.500.2
Date:
creation: 1941 August-1942 May
received: after 1941 August
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Personal narratives, American.…
412. Oral history interview with Robert R. Max
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.286.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0819
Date:
interview: 2015 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberated by American troops; going to a field hospital then hospitals in Liège, Belgium and Paris, France; writing in the hospital during his recovery…
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 … were-- I know a number of them were Italians and Poles. I don't recall if there were any Jews, even, in the area where we were. So you could have been…
413. Oral history interview with Tibor Vince
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0021
Date:
interview: 1996 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Hungary--Budapest.…
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 …, the American government gave me a-- 667 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:23,410 668 00:31:23,410 --> 00:31:26,252 not that passport, but-- 669 00:31:26,252 --> 00…
414. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.61 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0061
Date:
interview: 1997 February 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion, American.…
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 …’t-she’s very sad that she can’t participate. I know she jokes a lot about it. We all joke a lot about not being good Jews and like super Jews and people…
415. Oral history interview with Marvin Palanker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.48 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0048
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… women who had been forced to walk between the American and Russian fronts (he shows a picture of a group of Polish girls); being the only Jew in his unit…
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 … proceeded through France into Belgium and from Belgium into a city called Aachen, which was when we first went into Germany. Were you the first American…
416. Joseph Tenenbaum papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.081 | RG Number: RG-21
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1990
… organization that promoted the boycott of German materials in the U.S. As president of the American and World Federation of Polish Jews, Tenenbaum visited Poland…
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 …-1941), an organization that promoted the boycott of German materials in the U.S. As president of the American and World Federation of Polish Jews…
417. Oral history interview with Paulina Bergman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.12 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0012
Date:
interview: 1993 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; traveling with him to Zabolotiv, Ukraine; obtaining false papers as non-Jews; moving to several villages, including Zagoździe, Poland and Kolomyia, Ukraine…
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 … with a Jewish unit from Palestine. She met up with a cousin in the American army. 5.20 She returned to Austria to find other Jews who had pretended to be…
418. Oral history interview with Manya Perel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.18 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0018
Date:
interview: 1982 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and some help by Jewish police; the “resettlement” of Radom Jews to Treblinka in August 1942 while younger, able-bodied persons were retained for forced…
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 … of Volksdeutsche and Ukrainians in brutalities, and some help by Jewish police. She details the August 1942 “resettlement” of Radom Jews to Treblinka…
419. Oral history interview with Arnold Einhorn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0306
Date:
interview: 1995 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France, where he registered in school; experiencing antisemitism in his school and eventually not going anymore; avoiding the mass deportation of Jews on…
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 … seaside hotel. He was a very Orthodox man, but not a bearded--he was a westernized Orthodox Jew, very traditionally Jewish. Antwerp had a--the entire…
420. Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.213 | RG Number: RG-60.4186 | Film ID: 3026
Film Title:
DP Neg 237 Reel one-two
Date:
Event: approximately 1948
Duration:
00:07:05
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion…
421. Selected records from the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Document | Accession Number: 2016.535.1 | RG Number: RG-58.051
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
… Colonization Organization, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.…
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 … 1 Juive de Secours 17867 1921 Contributions en faveur des refugies russes juifs 1 a Constantinople 18065 1921 Cooperation with the American Joint…
422. Oral history interview with Helmut Bodenheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.17 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0017
Date:
interview: 1994 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Education.…
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 … back to Germany, as a wife of an American, or even as a Jew. We were so superior to the Germans. The Germans were practically a nothing. The Germans…
423. Oral history interview with Ernst Freudenheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.20 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0020
Date:
interview: 1989 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews, German--New York (State)--Buffalo.…
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 … patriotism was excelling. However, I did see the Jews from occupied Russian Poland coming into our house and visiting Hermann Struck, who directed them to…
424. Oral history interview with Jack Fruchtengarten
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0449.2 | RG Number: RG-50.090.0002
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Americanization.…
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 …: There wasn't anything going, because it was a small town. Harper: What would you say the population was? FRUCHTENGARTEN: 4,000. Harper: And how many Jews…
425. Records of the Gemilas Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 456, Opis 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2008.127 | RG Number: RG-31.073M
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1936
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… financial reports prepared for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) in Warsaw (a sponsor of the union), correspondence with local banks…
426. Oral history interview with Colonel Benjamin L. Abramowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.277.1 | RG Number: RG-50.945.0001
Date:
interview: 2016 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as an American 12 year old visiting displaced persons camps and attending the Nuremberg trails; his Bar Mitzvah in a rebuilt synagogue in Ansbach; the…
427. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
… on mainly from the assistance given by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Ellen met and married Alfred Lewy, and sailed for the United…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
428. Oral history interview with Yehuda Dominitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0067.6 | RG Number: RG-50.968.0005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
429. Oral history interview with Allen S. Levin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.1 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0001
Date:
interview: 2006 July 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… judge's son-in-law, Karl Ewald, an engineer who had been captured by the Americans; and seeing Karl years later on a PBS program.…
430. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.54 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.54
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
431. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.8
Date:
issue: 1944 February-1945 June 27
designed: 1942 December
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
432. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.60 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.60
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
433. Uruguay - Jewish Communities and Organizations
Document | Accession Number: 2018.15.1 | RG Number: RG-68.209
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1962
Alternate Title:
La Comunidad Judía en Uruguay
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
434. Oral history interview with Gunter Haimann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.206 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0171
Date:
interview: 2001 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Koblenz.…
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 … another pictures of it after it was ruined by the dri -- American dri -- bombers. Q: What street was your house on? A: Kleerstrasser. Kleerstasser 74. Q: Mm…
435. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0197 | RG Number: RG-68.001M
…Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique…
436. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0277
Date:
interview: 2009 August 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his family’s desire to leave Germany again in 1938; attending a German school until two days after Kristallnacht; the restrictions placed on Jews…
437. Oral history interview with Renée Schwalb Fritz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0346 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0076
Date:
interview: 1989 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; attending Boston University; and marrying an American man soon after she graduated from college.…
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 … orthodox Jew and he had a beard and everything. And they...they just picked him up, and he was never to be seen from or heard from again. And the doctor…
438. Oral history interview with Louis Koplin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1413 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1413
Date:
interview: 1983 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors…
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 … is to get rid of the Jew and with full cooperation of course it did get rid of them. THE INTERVIEWER Well now the economic strictures did this mean…
439. Oral history interview with Rachel Kizhnerman and Shelly Weiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.7 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0007
Date:
interview: 2006 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…), describe being very young when the Holocaust began; their childhoods; Rachel’s early life in the little village of Miagin; Shelly recounts non-Jews being…
440. Oral history interview with Bert Bochove and Elizabeth Bochove
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.6 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0006
Date:
interview: 1988 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bert Bochove describes his rescue efforts during the war; being aware of the risks he took while rescuing Jews; getting married to Betty; wanting to…
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 … the Christians make you get to God through Jesus Christ and priests. She says that the Jews don't have to go somewhere else, nor the Indians or the…
441. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.26
Date:
issue: 1944 February-1945 June 27
designed: 1943
… war economy. All three figures serve as inspiration for American Jews to make their own contributions to the war effort. Szyk was himself an immigrant…
442. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.33
Date:
issue: 1944 May-1945 June 27
designed: 1942 December
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
443. Sticker issued in the US to support relief efforts for Polish Jews
Object | Accession Number: 1998.153
Date:
issue: approximately 1943
…American Federation for Polish Jews…
444. Oral history interview with Janet Applefield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.3 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0003
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history collection…
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 …, allowing them to stay for three months. Her father married an American woman. Janet was told to choose a name, and she chose “Janet.” Her stepmother adopted…
445. HICEM-Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam, Zagreb (Fond 1430)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.393.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.52
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1941
Alternate Title:
Committee for Jewish Refugee Assistance "HICEM," Zagreb
Hilfskomitee für jüdischen Flüchtlinge
… functioned in 1970 as the Central Jewish Home for the Aged in Yugoslavia, and was assisted financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … and German Jews tried to flee Europe, joined in smaller numbers by Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Jews. HICEM Zagreb registered and sheltered the refugees…
446. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0328
Date:
interview: 2011 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his family’s desire to leave Germany again in 1938; attending a German school until two days after Kristallnacht; the restrictions placed on Jews…
447. Oral history interview with Dina Strassberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.31 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0031
Date:
interview: 1975 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… abandoning the camp and the surviving inmates raiding the food supplies; her liberation by American forces; pogroms against Jews in Chechov after the war…
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 …; the Jewish community was well developed there; they had Jewish hospitals; she went to a Hebrew High School; the Jews were represented in the City…
448. Oral history interview with Margot Freudenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.9 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conditions on the ship; living in New York, NY then Charleston, SC; her positive and negative encounters with Americans; her parents’ arrival in the US six…
449. Oral history interview with Sam Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.4 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1068
Date:
interview: 2020 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Obbach.…
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 …. Jews spoke German. We did not speak Yiddish. That was a question that I was going to have-- that I have because if you come from Poland-- You talk…
450. Oral history interview with Nelly Grussgott
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.4 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0004
Date:
interview: 2011 March 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in a religious home; visiting her grandparents who were Czech and Hungarian; attending Jewish school; her mother’s once kind non-Jew customers turning…
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 … Jewish, all Jewish, yes. Did you have any contact with non-Jews at all? No, not at that time, no. My mother did. My mother had customers. They were all non…