Fredonia is a comprehensive, public, liberal arts university in western New York that offers bachelor's and master's degrees and advanced certificate programs. With more than 4,600 students on a beautiful residential campus, students tell us it's the perfect mix of campus size and program variety. Fredonia offers strong programs and experiences in: sciences, arts, business, education, humanities, undergraduate research, interdisciplinary studies and athletics.

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  • Tibor Baranksi Interview 

    Baranksi, Tibor (Wallenberg Committee, 1987-05-03)
    This interview is in two parts; an interview with Tibor Baranski by Sharon Wallenberg, and a presentation by Baranski to the Jamestown Community College Forum . The interview discusses Baranski's experiences growing up as ...
  • Albert and Theodore Hersch Interview 

    Hersch, Albert; Hersch, Theodore (Browder Committee, 1985)
    The two speakers are brothers that were sent to Auschwitz with their family. They watched their mom and sisters be sent to their death upon arrival. In the camps they watched people get beaten and abused by the Nazis. after ...
  • Judy H. Schatz Interview 

    Back, Toby; Schatz, Judy (Browder Committee, 1990)
    The speaker talked about her family leaving Austria-Hungary after the discrimination and banning of Jewish people began. She faced many struggles where extended family passed on due to the Nazi regime, her immediate family ...
  • Sophia Cohen Chatov Interview 

    Back, Toby; Cohen Chatov, Sophia (Browder Committee, 1984-05-14)
    Sophia Cohen Chatov, born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1936, discusses her upbringing in hiding beginning when she was 4 years old across parts of rural Holland with various non-Jewish families and individuals who took in ...
  • Charles R. Sandler Interview 

    Back, Toby; Sandler, Charles (Browder Committee, 1990)
    Charles R. Sandler describes joining the US Army in April 1941; serving with the 11th Armored Division for the duration of the war. He was involved in the liberation of the Mauthausen and nearby Gusen concentration camps ...
  • Gerda Weissman Klein & Kurt Klein Interview 

    Back, Toby; Weissman Klein, Gerda; Klein, Kurt (Browder Committee, 1990)
    Gerda talks about how her town was invaded and attacked by the Nazis. After being sent to concentration camps and rescued by US soldiers, she discovered that those she cares about passed away before and on Liberation ...
  • The Wallenberg Story 

    Back, Toby (Wallenberg Committee, 1986-03-15)
    Wallenberg was a man who felt a connection to the Jewish people. He risked his life by providing 30 safe houses in the ghetto, following death marches to give victims aid, and providing food, protection, and shelter to the ...
  • Raymond Federman Interview 

    Federman, Raymond (Browder Committee, 1990-07)
    Raymond Federman discusses his middle-class Jewish family and how she spent nine years in an orphanage in the 1910s. His parents and sisters were deported to Auschwitz, so he went to a Jewish neighborhood where his aunt lived.
  • Henry Joseph Interview 

    Henry, Joseph (Browder Committee, 1975-11-11)
    The speaker recalls The Crystal Night (November 11th, 1938). Men 17-70 were gathered, leaving women and children defenseless. A synagogue was lit on fire, homes were raided, and Jewish individuals were horribly attacked.
  • The Hersch Brothers Interview 

    Back, Toby; Hersch, Albert; Hersch, Theodore (Browder Committee, 1985)
    The two speakers are brothers that were sent to Auschwitz with their family. They watched their mom and sisters be sent to their death upon arrival. In the camps they watched people get beaten and abused by the Nazis. after ...
  • Irmgard Muller Interview 

    Back, Toby; Irmgard, Muller (Browder Committee, 1990)
    Irmgard Mueller described her life-changing when Hitler came to power. She was sent to concentration camps with her friends. During a march, she and a few others were able to separate from the group and escape the country ...
  • Dr. Ronald Hauser Interview 

    Back, Toby; Ronald, Hauser (Browder Committee, 1990)
    The speaker describes the Nazi invasion in Plock, Poland. He talks about antisemitism, the German invasion in 1939, and the loss of rights among those who are Jewish. No one in his family survived being sent to Landsberg.
  • Rubin Literman Interview 

    Back, Toby; Rubin, Literman (Browder Committee, 1990)
    The speaker describes the Nazi invasion in Plock, Poland. He talks about antisemitism, the German invasion in 1939, and the loss of rights among those who are Jewish. No one in his family survived being sent to Landsberg.
  • Dr. Gábor Márkus Interview 

    Back, Toby; Gábor, Márkus (Browder Committee, 1986)
    The speaker describes his experience in Budapest, Hungary in 1922 when the Nazis invaded. He described a Hungarian leader being immediately arrested for speaking against the Nazis and his family being given little time to ...
  • Per Anger Interview 

    Anger, Per; Swanson, Roland; Browder, George (Wallenberg Committee, 1986-10-18)
    Per Anger describes joining the Foreign Service after completing his military service. He worked with Raoul Wallenberg and other neutral nations to protect the Jewish people of Budapest from Nazi persecution by issuing ...
  • Susan Tabor & Elenore Lester Interview 

    Back, Toby; James, Mattoon; Tabor, Susan; Lester, Elenore (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1986-03-03)
    This interview is in two parts; a one-on-one interview with Susan Tabor, and a recorded Raoul Walllenberg Committee Chapter meeting with presentations by Susan Tabor and Elenore Lester. Ms. Tabor's interview is a recollection ...
  • Mrs. Agnes Adachi Interview 

    Back, Toby; Adachi, Agnes (1987-09-22)
    Ms. Agnes Adachi recalled the beginning of the war. She remembers being in school when it was announced over the speakers that the Nazis have invaded. She goes on to talk about her interaction with various individuals ...
  • Baroness Elizabeth Kemeny-Fuchs Interview 

    Back, Toby; Kemeny-Fuchs, Elizabeth (Wallenberg Committee, 1986-05-13)
    Anti-semitism was not a Germany-exclusive issue, it was worldwide and even done by countries such as the United States and Great Britain. The speakers felt as if other countries did the bare minimum to feign care for those ...
  • Henry Joseph Transcript 

    Back, Toby; Henry, Joseph (Browder Committee, 1975-11-11)
    The speaker recalls The Crystal Night (November 11th, 1938). Men 17-70 were gathered, leaving women and children defenseless. A synagogue was lit on fire, homes were raided, and Jewish individuals were horribly attacked.
  • Songs of school days 

    McKinley, Mabel (Leo Feist Inc., 1912)

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