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1. Oral history interview with Hana Fuchs Krasa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.209 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0479
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interview: 2003 September 10
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … be an old palace. After World War I, there was a shortage of apartments, they converted some of the palaces into apartments, and in one of the part…
2. Oral history interview with Rene Slotkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0386 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0008
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interview: 1997 September 18
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … recollection of Tepledseshanof, I do have recollection of Prague, as where we spent our time before the war. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
3. Oral history interview with Antoniň Vinter
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.1 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0001
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interview: 1997 March 06
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 … mother was among them. Q: She returned after the war? A: She returned after the war. Q: You said that after the war you lived in comfort. Didn't you ever…
4. Oral history interview with Hana Bruml
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.355.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0043
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interview: 1990 February 27
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … war [NB: the First World War] got an uh...uh the Iron Cross, or any of the very high medals. And they were protected in Theresienstadt. They were not…
5. Oral history interview with Paul A. Strassmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.46 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0076
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interview: 2004 January 08
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … married to my maternal grandfather, Alexander Weiner, who was a master cabinetmaker. It was apparently a deep love because during the first World War, when…
6. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"
2008.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.191.1
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creation: 2007
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
7. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee
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Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
8. Oral history interview with Edith Farben
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.67 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0067
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interview: 1987 May 07
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 …:37:26,650 and they would tell us what's going on in the world. 740 00:37:26,650 --> 00:37:32,610 So we knew more or less that the war is ending soon…
9. Oral history interview with Haim Shmueli
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0196 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0432
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interview: 1996 June 10
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 … political prisoner in Europe, a three‐year old, is discussed along with the children’s drawings ‐ how they were hidden and found after the war. 01:75…
10. Oral history interview with Malvina Grünfeld Burstein
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0351
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interview: 1995 October 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 …, after the war. The only great thing was you had freedom. You could breathe, and I thought that's best in the world what you can get after – that we are…
11. Oral history interview with Kurt Thomas
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0233
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interview: 1990 November 09
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … night, we were alerted again to go down into a hiding place. The hiding place dated back long before the first World War, when the local people were…
12. Pair of tefillin with an embroidered green velvet bag used by a Czech Jewish refugee
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Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.2 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
13. Oral history interview with Anna Greenberger
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0035
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interview: 1982 August 24
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
14. Oral history interview with George Havas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0420 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0378
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interview: 1996 August 26
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 … Czechs, we were trying to be Czech and he knew the Hungarians from experience he had before, after World War 1, during World War 1, and it was a total…
15. Oral history interview with Marie Sendreová
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.9 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0009
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interview: 1997 June 17
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … end of the war was coming? A: Yeah. Q: Hope? A: We suspected something because they quickly hurried, the Gestapo. They were transporting, or something…
16. Oral history interview with Lou Dunst
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.135 | RG Number: RG-50.544.0001
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interview: 2001 May
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … interviewed at the trial. 0:03:40 Lou Dunst is now in his seventies but was fourteen years old at the outbreak of World War Two. He grew up in Yasinya…
17. Oral history interview with Karel Vrba
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.8 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0008
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interview: 1997 March 12
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … come there. Q: Were you ever interested in the world outside the camp, how the war was going? A: I was definitely interested, that’s for sure. Interview…
18. Oral history interview with Paul Strassmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.423.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0227
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interview: 1990 July 11
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … as a young child? A:Uh my father uh was a very successful commander of the local battalion in the First World War. He was one of the very early…
19. Oral history interview with Frank Meissner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0356 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0158
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interview: 1989 December 01
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … obviously you would immediately grab the opportunity. Q: What was October 1939 like in Prague? A: Nothing. By that time the World War II just started about…
20. Oral history interview with Michael Diamond
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0073 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0039
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interview: 1999 March 30
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.…
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 … you know the names of your grandparents? A: Not really, no. They died in World War One, my grandparents. But, my parents died in -- in Auschwitz, in the…