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1. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… United States in 1940. Gerda moved to Berlin in 1939 for nurse's training, met Adolf Eichmann, Rolf Günther, and Alois Brunner while working at the…
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 … England with a group of Jewish refugees in 1939, and he immigrated to the United States in 1940. Gerda moved to Berlin in 1939 for nurse's training, met…
2. Bea Browdy letter
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0028 | RG Number: RG-04.042
Date:
creation: 1945 May 11
… nurse, at a training hospital in Manhattan, New York. During World War II, Bea was a nurse in the United States Army and served in Africa, Italy, France…
3. Kay Foldvary papers relating to post-liberation Dachau
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0188 | RG Number: RG-04.043
… by Karessa (Kay Foldvary). The date of the memoirs is unknown. Both memoirs relate to Foldvary's experiences as a United States Army nurse at Dachau…
4. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.18
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Gusen I, II, & III
….S. Evacuation Hospital in the area of Linz, Austria. Also included are name lists of nurses assigned to the Gusen camps after liberation.…
5. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.26
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Langenstein
…. Beem describes her work as a nurse with the 20th Field Hospital Unit attached to the 9th United States Army and the conditions of prisoners liberated…
6. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.27
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Mauthausen
… the 11th U.S. Armored Division and the 130th U.S. Evacuation Hospital, the work of U.S. Army nurses with the survivors of the camp, and the situation of…
7. Gesundheitskammer in Generalgouvernement (Sygn.1578)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.230 | RG Number: RG-15.086M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Izba Zdrowia w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains medical personnel lists, questionnaires of physicians, dentists, nurses and other medical personnel in General Government, dating from 1939…
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 …, as well as questionnaires for physicians, dentists, nurses, and other medical personnel working in the General Government. System of Arrangement…
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. 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.…
10. Oral history interview with Marie-Henriette Ceulemans
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.13 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0013
Date:
interview: 1988 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… school in Brussels; working as a visiting nurse doing social work with poor people; getting married in 1934 to a broker in the Brussels stock exchange…
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 … nurse who, in 1936, became the director of a creche (child-care center) in Brussels. The creche cared for children from newborn through three years old…
11. Oral history interview with Emilie Guth and Hermine Orsi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.34 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0034
Date:
interview: 1988 July 04
interview: 1988 July 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… rescue; becoming a nurse after the war; and continuing to practice the Protestant faith after the war.…
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 … was Bust, and she left Bust at age 16. 3:00 She became a nurse and worked for various families. She needed to work because her mother was trying to…
12. Oral history interview with Eliahu Yakira and Irena Yakira
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.57 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0057
Date:
interview: 1987 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eliahu and Irena Yakira describe Irena’s work as a nurse in a hospital in Poland during the war; their decision to hide Jews; Eliahu’s work as the…
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 … she lived. During the war, she was a nurse in a hospital. Devotedly, she brought Jews home from the hospital, where they were kept in secrecy. However…
13. Oral history interview with Ala Sztajnert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.83 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0083
Date:
interview: 1987 July 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… along with him; being told by her father to not shop at Jewish-owned business but going anyway; receiving nurses training at a Jewish-owned private clinic…
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 … stabbed her in the arm. 00:10 She wanted to be a nurse and help people, but she needed a diploma in order to get into nursing school. 00:11 When she was 16…
14. Oral history interview with Friedel Bohny-Reiter
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0032
Date:
interview: 1994 May 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Cross children's transport to Switzerland in 1921 because her mother could not care for her; training to be a nurse and joining the "Schweiser Kinderhilfe…
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 … pouponniere, the center for newborns. A Swiss nurse tried to save the babies by getting them mothers’ milk. The babies were skin and bones, and they got some…
15. Oral history interview with Hana Bruml
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.355.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0043
Date:
interview: 1990 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… followed three weeks later by her and her husband’s deportation to the camp; working in the camp hospital as a nurse; the death of her husband and the…
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 … confirmed, and I found a job as a nurse. There were two small houses right opposite of the main kaserne, where the uh leadership was; and it was... Germans in…
16. Oral history interview with Sieny Kattenberg Cohen
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0054
Date:
interview: 1990 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after she left; finishing high school and interning at La Crèche nursing school in 1941; the deportation of her parents on May 26, 1943; avoiding…
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 …'t allowed, and I wanted to become a nurse, so I rather played with dolls anyhow. USHMM Achives RG-50.030*0054 2 Q: What was the memory that you remember most…
17. Oral history interview with Nina Schuster Merrick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0330 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0160
Date:
interview: 1989 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; hiding in the woods and eventually being taken in by a sympathetic Ukrainian general, who was involved with a partisan group; learning to be a nurse and…
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 … going to teach you how to be a nurse. But we will teach you how to use a gun, too." And this is how I became a nurse in the partisans. Holding people when…
18. Oral history interview with Rochelle Blackman Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.411.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0216
Date:
interview: 1990 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States; learning nursing during her stay at a German displaced persons camp; immigrating to the United States and arriving in Massachusetts on May 18, 1949…
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 … skeletons all the time. And I was sick with typhoid and my sister was sick with typhoid and we weren't allowed to go to see a doctor. But we had to nurse…
19. Oral history interview with Marthe Hoffnung Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0416 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0374
Date:
interview: 1996 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… along with all of its other rich families; moving to Poitiers, France, where, in June 1940, Jewish refugees started coming; attending a Red Cross nursing…
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 … started and we had to leave that city, so the hat business was dead anyway. But then during the war later, I went back to school, nursing school. Q: Is that…
20. Oral history interview with Louise Segaar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.374 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0461
Date:
interview: 2000 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Scouts; her brother's time in hiding; her work as a nurse in a hospital and in the Dutch underground; her interactions with Germans in the Netherlands; how…
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 … always together. My brother was in -- in what do you call it, college. And I was, of course, in another city, in Haarlem, as a nurse. A student nurse. And…
21. 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. 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
… nursing student; feeling that nursing was an occupation she could practice in other countries; living in Germany during the boycott of Jewish businesses…
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 … age 16. She then attended school in Switzerland before returning to Frankfurt to become a student nurse. She felt that nursing was an occupation that…
25. Oral history interview with Siegfried Halbreich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.13 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0013
Date:
interview: 1992 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work as a nurse in the camp hospital; his role as Blockälteste at one time in Auschwitz; his participation in a death march after the evacuation of…
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 … there was no pharmacy, they put me into the internal uh disease dept. as a male nurse. And, after a while, they made me in charge of the male nu--of the…
26. Oral history interview with Marjorie Butterfield
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.3 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0003
Date:
interview: 1990 March 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marjorie Butterfield, born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1920, describes her Presbyterian family; her training as a registered nurse at Sewickley Valley…
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 … months in Camp Pickett, VA, and time in 9 other camps before being sent overseas. She landed in Liverpool on June 6, 1944. 0:04:50 The nurses heard about D…
27. Oral history interview with Tamara Prau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0450.10 | RG Number: RG-50.084.0010
Date:
interview: 1993 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Poland--Łódź.…
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 … stopped her schooling after her mother died, so she could help father and brother. Her cousin who was a doctor; he taught her nursing skills, so she worked…
28. Oral history interview with Roberta Jones
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0410 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0013
Date:
interview: 1997 May 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Roberta Jones, born October 15, 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses growing up during the Great Depression; enlisting as a nurse in the United…
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 … Oklahoma. Her father owned a grocery store and worked for FDR’s WPA. Roberta graduated from nursing school in January 1944. She joined the Army, was…
29. Oral history interview with Samuel B. Hagner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0080 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0098
Date:
interview: 1998 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with nuns; going to France and the war ending before he was deployed to the Philippines; becoming a scrub nurse during plastic surgery on war victims in…
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 …, was trained to become 647 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:34,045 a scrub nurse, if you will, a surgical scrub 648 00:31:34,045 --> 00:31:37,810 nurse, passing…
30. 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…
31. Oral history interview with Hadar ben Zion
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.58 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0058
Date:
interview: 1993 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… could go and sing in courtyards for money and food which they smuggled back to the ghetto; his older sister’s role as a nurse in the ghetto hospital; how…
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 … nurse in the ghetto hospital. She took him to stay at the hospital to save him. The following day, the whole street, including the family, was transported…
32. Oral history interview with Helena Hammershmash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.61 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0061
Date:
interview: 1991 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by the British; working as a nurse with the British and later Belgian doctors in the tuberculosis ward; how she hid the evidence she had…
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 …. She was hiding the evidence she had written down and her poems, as well as some phenol. 11.16 She worked as a nurse with the British and later Belgian…
33. Oral history interview with Shoshana Naor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.112 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0112
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… underground moving her to Sweden where she decided to study to become a nurse; specializing in midwifery; learning the fate of her mother from the Red Cross and…
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 … become a nurse. I didn’t have money for that nor any documents. I finished school in Germany at age 12. To make money I put an add in the newspaper…
34. Oral history interview with Misha Vruvlevski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.164 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0164
Date:
interview: 1992 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the pogroms in Poland against the Jews in 1917; moving to Warsaw, Poland, and working for Janusz Korczak at his Jewish orphanage as a nurse for children…
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 … Warsaw, goes to work for Janusz Korczak at his Jewish orphanage, as a male nurse for children. Misha knew only that Korczak wrote children’s books, nothing…
35. Oral history interview with Sara Peri
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.302 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to an orphanage, where her mother eventually found her; her mother remarrying; immigrating to Israel; and finishing school and becoming a nurse.…
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 … where her mother eventually found her. Later her mother remarried and they move to Israel where Sara finished school and became a nurse. 1:00:00 Sara…
36. Oral history interview with Paulina Irum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.382 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0382
Date:
interview: 2000 October 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Samarqand, then an agricultural area; working as a nurse; returning to Samarqand in 1944, then to Warsaw after the war; learning no one from her family had…
37. Oral history interview with Leslie William Clarke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.3 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0003
Date:
interview: 1986 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… state of the inmates; the lack of reaction from the inmates in May 1945; the reaction of German nurses to the conditions; types of food given to the…
38. Oral history interview with William Dillon Hughes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.21 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0021
Date:
interview: 1990 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp inmates; handing over the camp to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association in July 1945; and the role of British nurses in the camp.…
39. Oral history interview with Ian Proctor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.32 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0032
Date:
interview: 1986 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… bodies; his work in the hospital treating inmates; the attitude of the German nurses; the conflicts between Polish and Russian inmates; seeing the…
40. Oral history interview with Paulette Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.12 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0012
Date:
interview: 1987 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Spain; being a registered nurse and working in a hospital near Périgueux, France; never wearing a Jewish star even though the area was under Vichy control…
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 … registered nurse, worked in a hospital in Jouin near Perigeaux. Area under Vichy control, but never wore a star. Joined Resistance group formed by husband…
41. Oral history interview with Eva Lewin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.15 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0015
Date:
interview: 1984 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… youth hostel; staying with a couple who ran a school; going to the United States after the war to become a nurse; continuing her connection with Mrs…
42. Oral history interview with Irene Opdyke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1984.1.1.21 | RG Number: RG-50.157.0021
Date:
interview: 1984 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Military nursing.…
43. Oral history interview with Martha Bauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.3 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… 1933; her first experiences with Nazis in Kassel; training to become a nurse in a Jewish hospital; the changes in Germany in the 1930s; being accepted as…
44. Oral history interview with Ethel Stafford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.31 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0031
Date:
interview: 1992 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ethel J. Stafford, born in 1923 in New York, NY, describes growing up in an immigrant neighborhood; attending public school; graduating from nurses…
45. Oral history interview with Riza Yankelevna Roitman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.29 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0029
Date:
interview: 1994 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; working as an army nurse until the end of the war; starting a family after the war; and living in Kharkov (Kharkiv).…
46. Oral history interview with Olga Adler
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0002
Date:
interview: 1982 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto as a nurse; life in the ghetto; her father, mother, brother, and sister perishing in camps; liberation and her return to her hometown; getting…
47. Oral history interview with Lucy Merritt
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0067
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s decision to leave Austria; leaving Austria to work as a nurse in England; securing the passage of her family from Austria to England; and her family…
48. Oral history interview with Abraham Mondry
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0070
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on the black market before, during, and after the war; spending three years at Auschwitz, where he served as a nurse aid to Dr. Mengele; the evacuation…
49. Oral history interview with Fanny Lebovits
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.68 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0068
Date:
interview: 1992 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Latvia.…
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 … to university and nursing school. 347 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken…
50. Oral history interview with Richard Elberfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.10 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0010
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nurses--Sweden.…
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 …,020 --> 00:07:03,040 Because I remember that many nurses from Sweden, 133 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:09,148 from Holland, Red Cross, came and volunteered to wash…