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1. Oral history interview with Józef Złomek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.192 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0192
Date:
2003 December 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Józef Złomek, born in 1917 in Raszków, Poland, describes the prewar Jewish community of his hometown; his military service in the Polish Army; the…
2. Weller and Mowszowicz families photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.224.1
…Collection consists of photographs of the Weller and Mowszowicz families in Zablotow, Chernovitz, Kolomyja, and Łódź, Poland before and after World…
3. Oral history interview with Stanisłav Bogucki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.318 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0318
Date:
2010 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisłav Bogucki, born in 1929 in Poland, describes life in Wiskitki during the war; the establishment in 1940 of a nearby labor camp for Jewish men…
4. Oral history interview with Leonard Zawacki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0358 | RG Number: RG-50.549.01.0012
Date:
1996 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leonard Zawacki, born January 20, 1916 in German-controlled northwest Poland, describes being brought up as a Catholic and having a comfortable, good…
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 … if you could go into a little bit about the home life and your upbringing. Leonard Zawacki: Well I, I was born in northwestern part of Poland. In the…
5. Oral history interview with Marian Plackowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.300 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0300
Date:
2010 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marian Plackowski, born in 1928 in Poznań, Poland, describes the prewar persecution of the Jews; restrictions placed upon the Jewish community under…
6. Oral history interview with William Luksenburg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0140
Date:
1991 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…William Luksenburg, born in 1923 in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, describes growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family; the German invasion in 1939 and the…
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 … April 14, 1991 Q: Please tell me your full name and where and when you were born? A: My full name is William Luksenburg. I was born in Dombrova, Poland…
7. Oral history interview with Nina Kaleska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.A.0333 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0101
Date:
1990 January 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Nina Kaleska, born on April 11, 1929 in Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus), describes having a pleasant childhood; her family not being perceived…
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 …. and them my sister and I spent about a year or two in Catholic school. There were only five or six children and we had, strangely enough for Poland at…
8. Oral history interview with Stanisław Hantz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.269 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0269
Date:
2005 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisław Hantz, born in 1923 in Poland, describes his imprisonment and forced labor in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from 1940 to 1944…
9. Oral history interview with Kazimierz Czerkies
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.256 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0256
Date:
2005 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kazimierz Czerkies, born in 1920 in Poland, describes the mass shooting of the Jews of Biała Podlaska and the sight of buried victims, some of whom…
10. Oral history interview with Marianna Swierzyńska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.219 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0219
Date:
2005 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marianna Swierzyńska, born in 1933 in Poland, describes a mass hanging and shooting of Jews in the Cegielnia Dzierzbowska ghetto; almost being killed…
11. Oral history interview with Marianna Racięcka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.159 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0159
Date:
2002 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marianna Racięcka, born in Warta, Poland in 1926, discusses her prewar relationships with Jews; the prewar Jewish community; a visit between the…
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 … hometown of Warta, Poland; remembers 11 Jewish contacts she was familiar with and gives a list of their names and additional details regarding their work…
12. David Birnbaum family photograph collection
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Document | Accession Number: 1998.85.2
Date:
1905-1935
…Max Mordche Birnbaum, was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1886. His wife, Rachel Rosa Saltzman, was born in Warsaw in 1887. In 1905 the Saltzman family…
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 … Siedlce and Warsaw, Poland and Copenhagen, Denmark. Languages: Yiddish, Polish, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
13. Oral history interview with Stanisław A. Kozakiewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.302 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0302
Date:
2010 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisław A. Kozakiewicz, born in 1930 in Buczacz, Poland (present day Buchach, Ukraine), describes the murder of Polish civilians by Ukrainians; the…
14. Oral history interview with Mieczyslawa Makuch
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.329 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0329
Date:
2018 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Wroclaw (Poland)…
15. Oral history interview with Genowefa Gajewska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.2 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0002
Date:
1998 March 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nathan Beyrak. Michal Sobelman and Alina Skibinska conducted the interview with Genowefa Gajewska in Konin, Poland on March 10, 1998, for the Polish…
16. Three part badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.3
Date:
1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
17. Oral history interview with Michalina Balińska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.276 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0276
Date:
2009 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Michalina Balińska, born in 1920 in Poland, describes living in Nowy Targ during the war; the mass shooting of a group of local Jews by German…
18. Oral history interview with Nisson Ovshievich Iurkovskii
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.103.23 | RG Number: RG-50.632.0023
Date:
2005 July 19-2006 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… escaping; being in Bershad, Ukraine later and returning to Tulchin after the war; being mobilized into the army in 1939; crossing into Poland with his army…
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 … returned to Tulchin after the war. He was mobilized into the army in 1939 towards Poland. His troops crossed the Polish border. There was a synagogue in…
19. Oral history interview with Tadeusz Maliszewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.122 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0122
Date:
1999 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tadeusz Maliszewski, born in 1922 in Lódz, Poland, describes German occupation of Lódz; the establishment of the Jewish ghetto; escaping to Kopalnia…
20. Oral history interview with Herman Haller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0117.3 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0003
Date:
1989 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gross-Rosen, digging trenches for the dead; being marched to Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra, Poland), where they stay in the camp for a few days; being taken by…
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 … shelter. No one believed them. Soon they heard that those who did go did not go to Germany, but to camps in Poland. They had not heard about the…