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1. Star of David badge with Jude given to a US liberator by an inmate
1988.140.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.140.4
Date:
1945 May 07-1945 May 09
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German American.…
2. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.2
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
3. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.5
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
4. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.6
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
5. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.8
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
1945 April
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
6. Oral history interview with Guy Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.379.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0223
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … information from the German prisoners of war. They uh, I was supposed to be a Russian liaison officer who would take recalcitrant prisoners uh and and ship them…
7. Deutsche Arbeitsfront swastika and cogwheel banner acquired by a US POW
2016.208.2_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 2016.208.2 a-b
Date:
found: 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
8. Bronze Star ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.8
Date:
commemoration: after 1944 June-before 1946 July
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
9. Oral history interview with Tzila Pinus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.246 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0246
Date:
interview: 1995 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Ukraine.…
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 … a photographer - had his own studio. Had 3 children. 1.24 Talks about beginning of war. July 1 bombing of Khatyr by Germans. July 7 German and…
10. Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.392 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0392
Date:
interview: 1981 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Isle of Man.…
11. Oral history interview with Ernest Loewenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.253 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0419
Date:
interview: 2001 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … parents saw you in August, I think, of 1939? http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is…
12. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker
1989.295.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.1
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
13. Oral history interview with Joan Salter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.797 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0797
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--France.…
14. Oral history interview with Judy Schatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.51 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0051
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … Scotland. What an entrance. These were wonderful people I worked for. But soon-- that was in May 1939. And three months later, war was-- World War II broke…
15. Pressed tin cap badge of a Reichsadler acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.8
Date:
found: 1945-1946
issue: 1936-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
16. Armband stamped Jewish Police Schwandorf acquired by a US soldier
2009.401.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.401.3
Date:
received: 1945 May-1945 September
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
17. Handmade birthday card given to an American internee
2018.426.18 open front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.18
Date:
received: 1942 October 28
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
18. Infantry service lapel pin from a pair received by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.26 back
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.26.2 a-c
Date:
received: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
19. Oral history interview with Drexel Sprecher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0231 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0004
Date:
interview: 1998 September 28
interview: 1997 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … on the war crimes trials. That would have been in late June of 1945. I worked on all the OSS studies I could find. It wasn’t hard to find them and they…
20. Oral history interview with Ilse Sternberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.116 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0116
Date:
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … found the army life very, very harsh. 4 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:02,010 And of course, the war in Korea was going on. 5 00:01:02,010 --> 00:01:05,459 And…
21. Oral history interview with Mel London
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0121 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0428
Date:
interview: 1996 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … consciousness? A: Well I can actually remember the day that war was declared in September of 1939. We were still in the country, the family was just able, my…
22. Oral history interview with Emilie Schindler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.22 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0022
Date:
interview: 1983 May 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.…
23. Set of US Army 18th Infantry Regiment lapel pins acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.13_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.13 a-c
Date:
received: 1945-1946
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
24. Oral history interview with Harry Midows
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.180.1 | RG Number: RG-50.877.0001
Date:
interview: 2014 June 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
25. U.S. lapel pin received by a German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.30 back
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.30.2 a-c
Date:
received: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
26. Watercolor painting of a standing woman acquired by an American internee
2018.426.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.16
Date:
creation: 1943
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
27. Women’s Reich Labor Service commemorative pin acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.7
Date:
found: 1945-1946
manufacture: 1938
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
28. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0087
Date:
interview: 2003 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
29. Oral history interview with Gerald L. Liebenau
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0407
Date:
interview: 2012 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … approximately one month, as they waited for their visa numbers to be announced. In February 1939, Gerald and his family emigrated to the United States. Gerald was…
30. Oral history interview with Claus Shelling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.736 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0736
Date:
interview: 1991 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 …, when my dad died he hired-- it's really ironic. He hired this German. He looks like he's out of a World War II movie, the stereotype villain with a…
31. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0368
Date:
interview: 2012 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …. His father could no longer travel for business. In March 1939, Gerald joined the Kindertransport. He lived with a farmer near Zurich, Switzerland from…
32. Oral history interview with Gerald L. Liebenau
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0463
Date:
interview: 2014 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
33. World War II Victory Medal with ribbon and box awarded to a US soldier
2011.75.11_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.11 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
issue: 1946-2010
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
34. Fred Roberts Crawford memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2013.183.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1982-1982
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
35. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.222 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0222
Date:
interview: 1994 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany.…
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 …, because he'd survived, how I don't understand. He survived until just before the war was over, which means he was in a concentration camp from 1939 'till…
36. Oral history interview with Gerta Wingerd
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.102 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0102
Date:
interview: 1996 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania.…
37. Embroidered priest's stole owned by a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.5
Date:
undated: 
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…
38. Oral history interview with Gerta Wingerd
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.165 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0165
Date:
interview: 1999 August 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Romania.…
39. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 …‐‐Germany‐‐Berga (Thuringia). Death marches‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Personal narratives, American. Bad Orb (Germany) Berga (Thuringia, Germany…
40. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…
41. Oral history interview with Ralph M. Hockley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0873
Date:
interview: 2016 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.…
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 … father served for four years in the German army in World War I-- got the Iron Cross and the whole deal. Was he a patriot? Yes. And that's something that…
42. Theresienstadt scrapbook acquired by a German American US soldier
2009.401.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.401.2
Date:
undated: 
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
43. Oral history interview with Gerald Schwab
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.106.0082
Date:
interview: 1997 November 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … that the Germans always made about their World War I soldiers. In fact, the other day I ran across, in going through some of my father’s things, a…
44. Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker
1989.295.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.10
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 June
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
45. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.…
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 … see. My father my born in Oswiecim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. Oh my, oh my. But they emigrated to Germany before World War 1, and when the war…
46. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.…
47. Oral history interview with Harry Thalheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.745 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0745
Date:
interview: 1989 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … broke out in 1939, we all had got ration cards. Every German got ration cards within one hour after the war was declared. Every German at his ration card…
48. Oral history interview with Margot Freundenberg
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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
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
49. Oral history interview with Frank Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.161.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1082
Date:
interview: 2020 June 24
interview: 2020 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.…
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 … story always was, "Yeah, I'm an American, I was born in America. But my parents used to be in the Towson area before World War I. And we spoke German at…
50. Oral history interview with Hanna Cassel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.154 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0154
Date:
interview: 1992 August 11
interview: 1992 September 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Italy--Casacalenda.…
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 … Germans because they had so recently fought against them in World War I and many had lost family members. The government persecution became worse and worse…