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1. Oral history interview with Eva Deutsch Costabel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.380.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1045
Date:
interview: 2019 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps, Kraljevica and then on the island of Rab; being liberated from Rab in 1943; joining the partisans and working as a nurse in the small mountain…
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 … sent me to another one. 1713 01:14:17,670 --> 01:14:22,459 1714 01:14:22,459 --> 01:14:25,320 I was a nurse then. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
2. Lotte Seligmann family papers
2019.129.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.129.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1995
bulk: 1924-1944
… brother, Siegbert (1909-1965). Her father worked as a cattle dealer in Marsberg. Lotte studied to become a nurse, and worked in Frankfurt am Main from 1931…
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 … material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in…
3. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman papers
2018.598.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.598.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2012
bulk: 1945-1952
… ghetto, Plaszów, Mauthausen, and Ebensee. His sister Mary also survived the war. Marsha previously trained to be a nurse, and worked in several DP camps…
4. Selected records related to history of the Jewish communities of the Volhynia region, Ukraine
Document | Accession Number: 2017.147.1 | RG Number: RG-31.125
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1939
…Jewish nurses--Ukraine--History.…
5. Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.91.1 | RG Number: RG-58.045
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1982
Alternate Title:
Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers
…Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), was a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes…
6. Arnoldi and Kohn families collection
2016.537.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 42
Document | Accession Number: 2016.537.1
Date:
creation: 1930-1942
… Japan. They settled in Sosua, where Ruth studied to become a nurse and met her future husband, a survivor from Austria, Herbert Kohn. After ten years…
7. Oral history interview with Renee Grosman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.436.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0864
Date:
interview: 2015 December 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Grosman; and working as a nurse.…
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 … aunt came later. Renee’s mother remained in Israel when she moved with her aunt to the US. She married Morris Grosman and worked as a nurse and had…
8. Gesundheitskammer Warschau (Sygn.497)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.152.1 | RG Number: RG-15.377
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Izba Zdrowia w Warszawie
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Nurses--Poland--Registers.…
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 … physicians--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers. Medical personnel--Poland--Warsaw--History--Registers. Dentists--Poland--Registers. Nurses--Poland--Registers…
9. Oral history interview with Simone Weil Lipman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.5 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0005
Date:
interview: 2006 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… false name of Simone Werlin, along with false papers, and passing as a non-Jewish nurse; being assisted by some Catholic and Protestant organizations and…
10. Red Cross badge acquired by a US Army nurse
Object | Accession Number: 2014.299.4
…Red Cross badge acquired by a US Army nurse…
11. Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse
2014.299.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.299.3
Date:
received: 1945
…Nazi armband acquired by a US Army nurse…
12. SS badge acquired by a US Army nurse
2014.299.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.299.2
Date:
received: 1945
…SS badge acquired by a US Army nurse…
13. Margaret Murphy papers
2014.299.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Murphy as a nurse in the Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, during and after World War II, including service at the liberated Dachau concentration camp.…
14. Oral history interview with Irene Zieske
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.50 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0050
Date:
interview: 1994 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Military nursing.…
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 …RG-50.759.0050 Summary Irene Zieske was a 30-year-old 2nd Lieutenant nurse, assigned to the 28th Field Hospital, attached to the 3rd Armored Division…
15. Oral history interview with Charlotte Chaney
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.24 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0024
Date:
interview: 1994 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Charlotte Chaney discusses her experiences during WWII when she was a 23-year-old in 1945 and a 2nd Lieutenant Nurse assigned to the 127th Evacuation…
16. Oral history interview with Marjorie Butterfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.22 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0022
Date:
interview: 1994 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marjorie Butterfield, who was a 25-year-old 2nd Lieutenant Nurse in 1945 and a member of the 131st Evacuation Hospital, discusses being deployed to…
17. Oral history interview with Genevieve Platner Allen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.2 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0002
Date:
interview: 1994 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Genevieve Allen discusses her experiences during WWII when, in 1945, she was a 27-year-old 1st Lieutenant nurse; being part of the 116th Evacuation…
18. Oral history interview with Harold Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.11.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0220
Date:
interview: 2014 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Military nursing--Austria.…
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 … the nurse. 202 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:47,490 The nurses were officers. 203 00:08:47,490 --> 00:08:50,590 We were not the nurse's supervisors. 204 00:08…
19. 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
… Valparaiso, Chile; her father manufacturing ties and selling those to different stores; her work taking care of children as a nurse-maid; becoming a nurse; and…
20. Oral history interview with Ruth Markowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.58 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0058
Date:
interview: 2010 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… teacher; her family reuniting after a year; studying to be a secretary; getting married and having three children; and becoming a nurse and working for the…
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 … married at age 19. She had three children. First she worked with her husband and later became a nurse, working for the Red Cross. Father became a peddler…
21. Oral history interview with Renee Grosman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.217.16 | RG Number: RG-50.721.0016
Date:
interview: 2013 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--United States.…
22. Oral history interview with Felicia Fuksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.11 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0011
Date:
interview: 2005 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Felicia Fuksman, born in Łódź, Poland, discusses her experience as a nurse in the Łódź ghetto during the German occupation of Poland; her deportation…
23. Presentation by Felicia Fuksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.2 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0002
Date:
interview: 1996 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Poland--Łódź.…
24. Luggage tag used by a Czech Jewish survivor
2011.445.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.445.2
Date:
use: 1946 May 03
… department and used this information to get assigned as a nurse at the camp hospital. Men and women were housed apart and Hana lived with 8 nurses near the…
25. Cahn-Gödelmann family papers
2011.420.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2011.420.3
Date:
inclusive: 1860-1976
bulk: 
…Johanna Cahn-Gödelmann, a nurse, was married to non-Jewish painter Jakob Gödelmann, and worked in Jewish hospital of Mannheim, Germany from 1939-1942…
26. Oral history interview with Rita Genekhovna Shveibish and Isaak Peisakhovich Shveibish
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.103.15 | RG Number: RG-50.632.0015
Date:
interview: 2005 July 21-2006 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, who worked at a kolkhoz (collective farm); his work at a shoe factory; moving to Tulchin in 1956; Mrs. Rita Shveibish's work as a nurse and her diploma…
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 … (collective farm). There was a Jewish kolkhoz. He worked at a shoe factory. He came to live in Tulchin beginning 1956. She worked as a nurse. Visits to cemetery…
27. Oral history interview with Faina Vladimirovna Oleinikova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.103.14 | RG Number: RG-50.632.0014
Date:
interview: 2005 July 19-2005 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; meeting her husband in the army and being married for 50 years; working as a doctor’s assistant and nurse; growing up in a small old house in Tulchin…
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 … used to work as doctor’s assistant/nurse. As a child she lived in a small old house in Tulchin – two rooms and a kitchen. Her family was very religious…
28. Oral history interview with Yahad-In Unum interviewee 56R
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.24.1321 | RG Number: RG-50.589.1321
Date:
interview: 2009 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a nurse; the murder of Jews and communists; and seeing the ground move after the massacre.…
29. Oral history interview with Gittel Jaskulski Hunt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.370 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0552
Date:
interview: 2008 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her education and nurses’ training; experiencing antisemitism in Chicago; and attending a gathering of Holocaust survivors in Israel in 1981.…
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 …: So you graduated from high school? A: Right. Q: And did you go on to college? A: I went into nurses’ training. Q: Okay. A: Met my husband. Q: Mm-hm. A…
30. Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse
2008.346.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.346.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse…
31. Small Allach porcelain vase found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation
2007.515.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.515.4
Date:
found: 1945 June
…Small Allach porcelain vase found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation…
32. Oral history interview with Chevka Svedosh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.3 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0002
Date:
interview: 1984 March 16-1984 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… within Warsaw because of the high rates of pregnancy; graduating from nursing school in 1940 and working in a Jewish hospital; meeting her future husband…
33. Drawing of trees, vegetation and buildings at Dachau concentration camp made by a recently liberated inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2007.271.3
Date:
creation: 1945 May 06
received: 1945 July
Artwork Title:
US Hospital Buildings at Dachau post-liberation
… Palmerton Hospital School of Nursing. During World War II, she was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps in both in the US and in the European Theater…
34. Drawing of the lookout tower and barracks of Dachau concentration camp made by a recently liberated inmate
2007.271.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.271.2
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 29
received: 1945 July
Artwork Title:
Dachau 29 IV. 43
… Palmerton Hospital School of Nursing. During World War II, she was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps in both in the US and in the European Theater…
35. Belgian Red Cross medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish Russian nurse
2007.212.3_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.212.3 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
…Belgian Red Cross medal, ribbon, and box awarded to a Jewish Russian nurse…
36. Blue cross armband worn by a Jewish Russian nurse caring for refugee children
2007.212.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.212.2
Date:
use: 1940-1945
…Blue cross armband worn by a Jewish Russian nurse caring for refugee children…
37. Rose embroidered tablecloth kept by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.498.4 top
Object | Accession Number: 2006.498.4
Date:
received: 1939 February
… trained as a nurse and served in various British Army camps from December 1941 to October 1944. She was based in London and treated war casualties. She…
38. Painted wooden spice box kept by by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.498.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.498.3
Date:
received: 1939 February
… trained as a nurse and served in various British Army camps from December 1941 to October 1944. She was based in London and treated war casualties. She…
39. Silver sugar tongs carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.498.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.498.2
Date:
received: 1939 February
… trained as a nurse and served in various British Army camps from December 1941 to October 1944. She was based in London and treated war casualties. She…
40. Red crayon sketch of 4 females in heavy scarves created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse and rescuer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.464.4
Date:
creation: 1989
depiction: 1942
Artwork Title:
Group of Women and Children with Scarves
…Red crayon sketch of 4 females in heavy scarves created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse and rescuer…
41. Pencil sketch of a young boy with haunted eyes created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse and rescuer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.464.3
Date:
creation: 1989
depiction: 1942
Artwork Title:
One Child
…Pencil sketch of a young boy with haunted eyes created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse and rescuer…
42. Etching of a sad young boy in an internment camp created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse/rescuer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.464.2
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: before 1989
Artwork Title:
Despair
…Etching of a sad young boy in an internment camp created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse/rescuer…
43. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there
2006.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.154.1
Date:
creation: 1994
depiction: 1942
Artwork Title:
View of Rivesaltes
…Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there…
44. Oral history interview with Georgette Reiszman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.98 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0098
Date:
interview: 1990 August 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… antisemitism during the late 1930s; being trained as a nurse; the takeover of her father’s business in 1941; the jailing of her mother on the first day of the…
45. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.31
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… an infant nurse in a children’s home. She completed her training in 1938, and with the assistance of a cousin living in England, was accepted into the…
46. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.30
Date:
use: approximately 1946-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker…
47. Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.29
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Container used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker…
48. Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.28
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Bag and supplies used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker…
49. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.27
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker…
50. Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.26
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…Box and needles used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker…