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1. Oral history interview with Sister Bernarda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.187.47 | RG Number: RG-50.582.0047
Date:
interview: 2000 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interview with Sister Bernarda…
2. Oral history interview with Gabor Markus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.45 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0045
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… marched to a large camp ground previously used by the boy scouts; finding his sister, who later disappeared along with his mother; being taken with his…
3. Regine Donner photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1941-1946
…Donner, Sister Regine.…
4. Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0184 | RG Number: RG-20.019
Date:
1945 July 31
…Testimony of Sister Marie-Aurelie, Mother Superior of the Convent of the Sisters of the Very Holy Savior...…
5. Oral history interviews with Irène Paillassou and Renée Paillassou
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.1 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0001
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sisters read extracts from Chevrier’s diary, recounting the daily happenings at the chateau, the sanctioning of Renée, the fear of informants, etc.; and…
6. Oral history interview with Sylvia Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.98 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0098
Date:
interview: 1989 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Belgium of Russian ancestry; her mother, who was from Poland; having a happy childhood; how around 1935 her sister Ruth was beaten by Hitler youth; her…
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 … happy childhood ended for Sylvia in 1935-36, when her sister Ruth was beaten by Hitler youth. Years later, while studying nursing in England, Ruth died in…
7. Oral history interview with Lenci Farkas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.316 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0316
Date:
interview: 1990 November 06
interview: 1990 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… enduring terrible conditions; the death march from Auschwitz, from which she escaped with two of her sisters; working for the Russians until the war ended…
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 … SISTERS Yes. had we were eight girls and one boy. UH-HUH. It was not one marriage. Of course my mother passed away when was born in childbirth. My father…
8. Oral history interview with Esther R. Starobin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0200
Date:
interview: 2007 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nazi assumption of power in January 1933; the policies of discrimination against Jews in Germany; her three sisters going to England as part of a…
9. Oral history interview with Esther Danon-Kaidanow and Sarah Danon-Meller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0458.3 | RG Number: RG-50.413.0003
Date:
interview: 1994 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; Esther’s wonderment at the sheer amount of snow in Oswego, her involvement in the girl scouts, and winning a package that was sent back to her sister in…
10. Oral history interview with Elvira Manthey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.485.8 | RG Number: RG-50.718.0008
Date:
interview: 2003 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sister, Lisa, in a part of the home for children with developmental delays; the extremely poor conditions in this room of the home; learning later that she…
11. Oral history interview with Miriam Chervenka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.323 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0323
Date:
interview: 1997 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Miriam Hartz Chervenka, born in 1924 in Pohorelice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), describes growing up in a family with a younger sister; her…
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 … sister who was four years younger. Miriam’s mother died prior to the invasion of the Germans into Czechoslovakia. The family, along with all the other Jews…
12. Oral history interview with Helen Jutkevicz
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0042
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… were transported to Auschwitz; arriving in Auschwitz; staying with her sister but being separated from their mother; being sent to Bremen to work; being…
13. Oral history interview with Edith Eva Eger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.123 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0123
Date:
interview: 1992 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mother (Helen Klein), who worked for the Hungarian ministry; her two sisters, Magda and Klara; her favorite memories are of her mother's cooking; her…
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 … condition. But it was extremely painful, done with no anesthetic. She had two sisters, Magda and Klara, who were both very talented musically. Klara was…
14. Oral history interview with Charlotte Firestone
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0027
Date:
interview: 1982 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her mother and son were gassed upon arrival; being transferred with her sister to Stutthof; being…
15. Oral history interview with Helena Leefsma
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.91.35 | RG Number: RG-50.493.0035
Date:
interview: 1993 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… evening because rocks were thrown at them; the arrest of her father in May 1942 and never seeing him again (he perished in Auschwitz); her oldest sister…
16. Oral history interview with Polly Bergtraun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.302 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0302
Date:
interview: 1996 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); her older sister (Hella) and her twin sister (Dolly); life before the war; attending a private school; being assimilated, nonobservant Jews; rarely…
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 … and Yoland Sophia (Snow). She had two siblings, an older sister named Hella and a twin sister named Dolly. Polly remembers that life in the Hague before…
17. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.92 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0092
Date:
interview: 1998 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; surviving with her sister; liberation from Bergen-Belsen; marriage; immigration to Israel; communication about the Holocaust; and living in the US.…
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 … then? SURKF: This was a pure family reason. I survived with a sister. We survived only two of the whole family. (Crying, pause) It’s a really a long…
18. Oral history interview with Helen Fagin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.4 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0004
Date:
interview: 1995 February 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liquidation in 1942; her parents had already been sent to Treblinka; being with her two sisters until she escaped during a march to the railroad station…
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 …, my parents were taken away from us and sent to Treblinka, where they perished. My two sisters and I, then, remained in the ghetto, but we stayed there…
19. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0454
Date:
interview: 2014 March 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sister Serena for forced labor, while her father was forced to work as a Sonderkommando, removing corpses from the gas chambers and cremating them (her…
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 … photograph Irene is at the lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in 1939, Botragy fell…
20. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0678
Date:
interview: 2019 March 27
… sister Serena for forced labor, while her father was forced to work as a Sonderkommando, removing corpses from the gas chambers and cremating them (her…
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 … siblings. In this photograph, Irene is at the lower left with two of her sisters and two cousins. When Nazi Germany took over and divided Czechoslovakia in…