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34701. Oral history interview with Eric Bergtraun
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Italy before traveling to Shanghai, China; the welcoming Jewish community in Milan; their arrival in ... Shanghai and staying with a nice Russian-Jewish family while his parents got settled; how the Jewish ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services
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34702. Oral history interview with Edith Wellisch
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... 1938 after Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland; the increasing restrictions on Jewish life, and her ... received; her efforts to pass as non-Jewish; the work she performed; the family she lived with; her postwar ... experiences; her work in a Jewish hospital in Bratislava; her efforts to leave Communist Czechoslovakia; her
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34703. Oral history interview with Marita J. Berg
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Marita Berg, born in 1941 in Leipzig, Germany, describes her mother, who was Jewish, and her father ... with her mother; living in West Germany until the mid-1980s, after which she married a Jewish American ... her thoughts on the ambivalence or denial by Jews of their Jewish identity; self-identifying as a Jew
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34704. Oral history interview with Polly Bergtraun
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... comfortable quarters; the rise of antisemitism; having to attend a rundown Jewish school and the disappearance ... of Jewish students over time; her family separating and going into hiding in 1942 under the ... reconnecting with her Jewish faith.
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34705. Oral history interview with Faye Nelson
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... discusses her childhood in Ansbach as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Catholic father; her Catholic ... upbringing; the effect that the Nazis’ rise to power had on her family; her relationship with her Jewish ... States armed forces personnel; her post-war training as a nurses’ aide; her encounters with Jewish
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34706. Oral history interview with Doba Gendelman
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... history at Heder (Jewish school) and later became an accountant; her family’s plan to evacuate at the ... ghetto; learning Hebrew and Jewish traditions from her grandfather while in hiding; the death of many ... Jewish traditions in her family.
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34707. Oral history interview with Rebecca Siegel
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... 's activities helping Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany; being forced to leave her elementary school for a ... Jewish school in June 1941; the family's move to a Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam; conditions for Jews under ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services
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34708. Oral history interview with Evelyn Lowen Apte
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Berlin; how her family did not consider themselves religious but when the war began the Jewish holidays ... social worker; considering herself an atheist, but still feeling close to the Jewish culture and ... traditions; the large community of Jewish refugees in Portland; and her reflections on her experiences as a
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34709. Oral history interview with Eva Cohn
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... 1935; moving to Cologne, Germany, where she attended a Jewish school while staying with a Jewish family ... her family’s experience during an anti-Jewish “Aktion” in 1938, during which German soldiers threw ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services
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34710. Oral history interview with Cecilia Kornbluth
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... 1938; the changes that occurred for Jewish Austrians afterward; her two older brothers fleeing to ... papers; being questioned and released; living and working in a refugee camp for single Jewish girls in ... in 1942; having a son; being supported by the Jewish community during this period; her immigration to
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34711. Oral history interview with Lev Dumer
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Lev Dumer, born in 1919 in Odessa, Ukraine, describes the Jewish community in Odessa before the war ... German occupation of Kiev; the Jewish response to the invasion; his family’s evacuation to Chelyabinsk in ... entering Odessa; Jews having to register; the denouncement of Jewish families by antisemitic neighbors
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34712. Oral history interview with Aldona Arbačiauskienė
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Aldona Arbačiauskienė, born in Rūkų (Rukai), Lithuania in 1923, discusses the prewar Jewish ... being taken with Jewish prisoners to a makeshift prison in the national guard’s hall in Skuodas ... Lithuania; living conditions in the prison; torture by Lithuanian collaborators; German anti-Jewish violence
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34713. Oral history interview with Judah Nadich
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... France, where among other activities, he helped 600 Jewish survivors go from Germany to illegal ships in ... efforts to help the Jewish survivors in August 1945; being stationed in Frankfurt; the Jewish survivors in ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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34714. Oral history interview with Sid Shafner
Sid Shafner, an American Jewish soldier, discusses being a member of an intelligence and ... a German Jewish refugee named Oscar Wells, who became a US soldier and lined up former camp guards ... over the administration of the camp as the platoon moved on; the unit adopting the two young Jewish ... youths and bringing them along to Vienna, Austria, as the war ended; the Jewish Joint Distribution
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34715. Oral history interview with Gertrude Hallo
Christianity and instead devoted his life to personal Jewish learning and to improving Jewish education for ... belief that the historical background in Germany, the Jewish youth movement, Zionism, and the beginning ... of the racist Teutonic movement explain why young Jews had to fight for their Jewish identity in ... Germany leading up to the rise of Hitler; Jewish participation in German art and culture and her own early
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34716. Oral history interview with Albert Nahmias
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... his family to Thessaloniki, Greece in 1917 after the bombardments during World War I; the Jewish ... from Bari to Greece in December 1945; the Jewish community in Thessaloniki after the war; his marriage ... propaganda in the Jewish community; and the rabbis who collaborated with the Nazis.
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34717. Oral history interview with Naum Mikhailovich Pyekarev
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Belarus, recalls his pre-war family and Jewish life in Pogost; refugees fleeing advancing German troops ... Aktions in 1941, of the Jewish men and then the Jewish women and children of Pogost; his escape from ... Pogost to Slutsk; life in the Slutsk ghetto; the Jewish administration of the Slutsk ghetto; his family
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34718. Oral history interview with Edwin Opoczynski
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... living an assimilated lifestyle; attending medical school in 1936 under a Jewish quota; his affinity for ... leftist organizations; the street attacks on Jewish students; the German invasion; briefly fleeing east ... returning home; working in the Jewish hospital; obtaining food from non-Jewish friends; ghettoization; round
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34719. Oral history interview with Johanna Vos
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... her school years; dating a Jewish boy at age seventeen despite her parents’ disapproval; leaving home ... having children; becoming involved in activities to help Jews, first by helping her Jewish friends and ... then joining the Dutch underground; wearing the Star of David in solidarity with the Jewish population
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34720. Oral history interview with Nava Shan
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... daughters; her assimilated family (she did not know she was Jewish until implementation of Hitler's anti ... -Jewish laws); working as an actress from childhood; German invasion; working to support her family; her ... non-Jewish fiancé leaving her due to anti-Jewish laws; joining a Zionist organization and studying
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34721. Oral history interview with Jack Steinberger
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... ’s cantor; the Jewish community in Bad Kissingen; the town of Bad Kissingen; the synagogue’s destruction ... experiencing antisemitism; his father’s service in World War I; his father’s education at a Jewish seminary and ... his mother’s university education; attending school in Bad Kissingen; having non-Jewish friends; his
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34722. Oral history interview with Ilse Weinryb
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... 50 Jewish families; her father working in horse trading and losing a leg in World War I; her older ... a non-Jewish maid, Martha Schlack; her father attending synagogue on high holidays; the synagogue ... burning down during Kristallnacht; getting kicked out of school for being Jewish; receiving rations cards
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34723. Oral history interview with Antonio Serri
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... influence; growing up Catholic; his Jewish and non-Jewish friends; the German occupation in 1941; the ... general fear of the Germans; the community’s mixed feelings about Mussolini; the numerous Venetian Jewish ... grandmother during a roundup of suspected resisters; his grandmother hiding six Jewish men overnight before
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34724. Oral history interview with Donald Butler
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... military camp; his assignment as vice-chaplain to Protestant Army Chaplain Eccles for the Jewish troops ... Italy; being stationed in Florence and Rome; the challenge of abiding Jewish dietary laws while ... with the UNRHA and hearing stories from Jewish survivors; returning to the United States in January
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34725. Oral history interview with Uri Chanoch
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... had no non-Jewish friends; his close relationship with the family’s nanny; a reunion with the nanny ... Jewish men in one synagogue and then burning it down; spending three weeks barricaded in another ... rounding up the Jewish population; returning to Kaunas and finding that everyone had disappeared, the mass