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  Elsa "Bimba" Beck,

  Elsa "Bimba" Beck recalls her experiences growing up as the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family in Inbjija, Yugoslavia and her attempts to warn her family to…
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  Livia Bitton Jackson,

  Livia Bitton Jackson shares her memories and experiences of growing up Jewish during the Holocaust. She discusses being deported from her home and her…
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  Sandra Brand,

  Sandra Brand was a Polish Jew born in Vienna probably in 1918, although some records show a date of 1910. Her birth name was Roma Babrandt and she also used the…
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  Lea Buller,

  **Please note that part of this interview is spoken in Yiddish.**
  
  Lea Buller describes her personal experiences of World War II. She discusses her family…
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  Alice Lok Cahana,

  Alice Lok Cahana tells stories about her time at Auschwitz with her sister Edith Lok Cahana. From her journey to the concentration camp in an overfilled cattle…
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  Henry Compart,

  Henry Compart describes his family's escape from his hometown of Berlin, Germany to Shanghai, China as Jewish refugees in 1939. He recounts his family's…
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  Leif Donde,

  Leif Donde describes his childhood as a Danish Jew, discussing also the relation of Danish to Jewish culture. He tells of his family's increasingly dangerous…
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  Herta Drucker,

  Herta Drucker describes life in her hometown of Vienna, Austria leading up to her being sent by her parents to England due to the increasing persecution of Jews…
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  William Drucker,

  William Drucker describes his escape from his hometown of Vienna, Austria soon after the German invasion of the country in 1938. After living for a time in a…
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  Herta Drucker,

  This is a very short interview with Herta Ducker in which she gives an accounting of her genealogy. She discusses her origins in Vienna, Austria, as well as her…
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  Harry Joseph Feldinger,

  Harry Feldinger discusses the anti-Semitic attitudes that existed in Europe, including his home country Czechoslovakia, during World War II. He shares about his…
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  Edith Friedland,

  Edith Friedland describes her deportation from her hometown of Prague, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia) to the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt…
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  Bella Gottesman,

  Bella Gottesman recounts her time in occupied Romania during World War II. Gottesman was born and raised in Romania. When she was 20 years old the war began and…
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  Greek Jews at a Gathering of…

  Several Greek Jews recount their experiences in Europe during the Second World War. A Sephardic Jew discusses his detention in Auschwitz, his subsequent move to…
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  Rita Grunbaum,

  Rita Grunbaum first describes her and her husband's moves after the Second World War and describes herself as optimistic throughout the war; then she begins her…
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  Irene Hizme,

  Irene Hizme was a Czechoslovakian Jew during World War II and the Holocaust. She describes the Holocaust from her perspective as a very young child. Hizme was a…
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  Flora Hogner,

  Flora Hogner shares what she can recall about her family before being taken to a convent during the German occupation in France. She explains why she was taken…
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  Isaac Jarkovsky,

  Isaac Jarkovsky describes his upbringing in Brussels, Belgium after his family's move from Havana, Cuba. He describes Brussels in the 1930s and early 1940s, as…
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  Elizabeth Koenig,

  Elizabeth Koenig describes her hometown of Vienna, Austria in the 1930s, particularly the anti-Semitism that her father faced at work and she faced at school,…
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  Tom Lantos, Annette Lantos,…

  Annette Lantos, wife of United States Representative Tom Lantos, tells her husband's story of survival during the Second World War: his escape from a…
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  Levy Shabtay,

  Levy Shabtay describes his early years in Sofia, Bulgaria as the Second World War began. He discusses at length the Bulgarians' opposition to the persecution of…
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  Gertrud Mainzer,

  Gertrud Mainzer tells of her family's escape from Frankfurt, Germany to the Netherlands in 1933 when Hitler rose to power in Germany, after which they were safe…
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  Ernst W. Michel,

  Ernst Michel describes his experiences working as a reporter at the Nuremberg Trials. He explains how difficult it was to remain unbiased while writing about…
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  Irving Milchberg,

  Irving Milchberg discusses the Warsaw Ghetto, explaining that he was on the outside at the time of its formation. He was then sheltered by Poles, he explains,…
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  Gastone Orefice,

  Gastone Orefice describes Jewish history in Italy starting 300 years before Christ. He explains the treatment of Jewish individuals before World War II and…
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  Henri Parens,

  Henri Parens discusses his early years in Brussels, Belgium leading up to 1940, when Germany invaded Belgium and Parens fled to the vicinity of Toulouse, France…
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  Jack Polak, Ina Polak,

  Jack and Ina Polak, after indicating that they wrote many letters during the war which were mostly destroyed, discuss their life before the Second World War,…
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  Liane Reif-Lehrer,

  Liane Reif-Lehrer discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s, which was racked by her father's depression and apparent suicide in 1938. She…
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  Dasha Rittenberg,

  Dasha Rittenberg describes the upheaval that the German invasion brought to her family in Bedzin, Poland. As she explains, her parents sent her to Szczecin,…
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  Phyllis Schnur,

  Phyllis Schnur discusses her early life in Lodz, Poland immediately before and during the Second World War, explaining that in 1940, the Germans who had…
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  Michael Stolowitzky,

  Michael Stolowitzky describes the efforts of his gentile adoptive mother Gertrude to hide his Jewish identity in Vilnius, Lithuania after his mother died early…
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  Rosa Strygler,

  Strygler, a Jew from a Hasidic family in Krakow, Poland, first gives an overview of her experience during the Second World War, later providing details on each…
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  Sigmund Jucker, Max Jucker,…

  Brothers Sol, Sigmund, and Max Jucker of the Three Brothers Bakery in Houston, Texas, after discussing their bakery, recount their wartime experiences. After…
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  Sol Urbach, January 6, 1995

  Sol Urbach shares about his various experiences during World War II as a teenager living in Krakow, Poland. He discusses his and his family?s lives before the…
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  Moshe Yassur,

  Moshe Yassur, whose hometown is Ias?i, Romania, recounts his experience of the Ias?i Pogrom, which took place on June 27, 1941. He discusses Jewish communities…
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  B. Gottfried,

  B. Gottfried discusses his time in Germany and Poland during and after World War II. He spent much of his time in the Jewish ghettos working in a photography…
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  Mendal Hoffman,

  Mendal Hoffman was a Hungarian Jew who grew up during the Holocaust. He ran away from home to work in Budapest for a year before the Germans occupied Hungary,…
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  Michel Margosis,

  Michel Margosis describes his family's escape from his hometown of Brussels, Belgium after the German invasion of Belgium in 1940. After this time his family…
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  Golda Wollfogel,

  Golda Wollfogel shares about her life during World War II in Lithuania and in labor camps. She recalls her time in Kaunas, the temporary capitol of Lithuania,…