Browsing Browder-Wallenberg Holocaust Survivors Oral Histories by Author "Back, Toby"
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Baroness Elizabeth Kemeny-Fuchs Interview
(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 ... -
Charles R. Sandler Interview
(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 ... -
Dr. Gábor Márkus Interview
(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 ... -
Dr. Gábor Márkus Transcript
(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 ... -
Dr. Ronald Hauser Interview
(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. Ronald Hauser Transcript
(Browder Committee, 1990)The speaker describes his life before immigration. He was bullied and abused by teachers and classmates. After immigration, he became detached from others being weary of putting down roots. Now he is making an attempt to ... -
Gerda Weissman Klein & Kurt Klein Interview
(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 ... -
Henry Joseph Transcript
(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
(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 Mueller Transcript
(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 ... -
Irmgard Muller Interview
(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 ... -
Judy H. Schatz Interview
(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 ... -
Miriam Tauber Transcript
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1986-02-04)Miriam recalls her childhood at the end of the war, where Allied forces had bombed Romania, German forces were retreating, and Soviet forces were attempting an invasion; she was ill at the time, and her family was in hiding ... -
Mrs. Agnes Adachi Interview
(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 ... -
Patricia and Tulio Sonnino Transcript
(United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumBrowder Committee, 1986-02-12)Patricia tells of her experience growing up in a Jewish family in Florence, Italy, and their process of escaping to the south with the aid of false identification papers after the German occupation. While on the move and ... -
Raymond Federman Transcript
(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. -
Rose Stemmer Transcript
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1986)Rose recalls her childhood in Strassburg, France, during the war and her family's efforts relocating to avoid conflict. After spending much of 1940 moving across France with her family, a connection was finally made that ... -
Rubin Literman Interview
(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 Transcript
(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. -
Sophia Cohen Chatov Interview
(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 ...
