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Holocaust Oral History Archive

The Holocaust Oral History Archive is one of the earliest and largest collections of Holocaust testimony in the United States. Established in 1979 by Nora Levin (1916-1989), and maintained by a dedicated volunteer staff, the Archive is one of the earliest Holocaust oral history projects in the U.S. documenting a wide range of experiences during the Nazi era and Jewish life in pre-Nazi Europe. Holdings include interviews with over 900 survivors, rescuers, liberators, and other witnesses to the persecution and extermination of the Nazi era, 1933-1945. Special groupings include the testimonies of "Kindertransport" children sheltered in England, the 1985 Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, the 1991 and 1999 Rickshaw Reunions of Shanghai Survivors, and the Vilna Ghetto Fighters.

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Oral History Interview with Inge Karo

Interviewee: Inge Karo
Interviewer: Janice Booker
Inge Karo, née Heiman, was born in 1926 in Essen, Germany. Her father was part owner of a business. Her parents were active in the Jewish community and belonged to a conservative synagogue. Inge belonged to a non-Zionist youth organization and was educated in a school for Jewish children until the s...
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Oral History Interview with Genia Klapholz

Interviewee: Genia Klapholz
Interviewer: Lucille Fisher
Genia Klapholz, nee Flachs , was born in 1912 in Wisnicz, near Krakow, Poland to a religious family. After the town was ghettoized, she witnessed her baby niece kicked to death by a German soldier. Genia and a younger sister escaped and paid a woman in a neighboring village who hid them for eight da...
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Oral History Interview with Lola Krause

Interviewee: Lola Krause
Interviewer: Lucille Fisher
Lola Krause, née Miestschanimoff, was born March 1, 1916, in Vitebsk, Belarus. Her father, a successful movie photographer, and her mother, an accomplished pianist from Latvia, were non-observant Soviet Jews. Lola studied music with her mother, learned German from her governess and attended public s...
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Oral History Interview with Dora Langsam

Interviewee: Dora Langsam
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Dora Langsam was born in Brzeziny, Poland January 1, 1925. Her family kept kosher, her father, a business man, fought with Trumpeldor, her brother served in the Polish army. She describes conditions for Jews after the German invasion in September 1939. One brother died trying to protect his fathe...
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Oral History Interview with Mina Lustiger

Interviewee: Mina Lustiger
Interviewer: Eileen Steinberg
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Oral History Interview with Yehuda L. Mandel

Interviewee: Yehuda L. Mandel
Interviewer: Nora Levin
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Oral History Interview with Luba Margulies

Interviewee: Luba Margulies
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
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Oral History Interview with Moshe Moskowitz

Interviewee: Moshe Moskowitz
Interviewer: Sylvia Brockmon
Moshe Moskowitz was born in 1922 in Lespitz-Baya, Romania to a merchant family that was traditional but not deeply religious. He studied in a Jewish school, then in a vocational school. He planned to go to Palestine, joined a Zionist youth group and worked in an agricultural community. After the Ger...
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Oral History Interview with Manya Perel

Interviewee: Manya Perel
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Manya Perel, nee Frydman, was born 1924 in Radom, Poland, youngest of 10 children in a traditional Jewish family. Her father had a bakery. She describes her education and Jewish life in Radom, Polish antisemitism, Przytyk pogrom in 1936, and continues with post-September 1939 German invasion. She me...
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Oral History Interview with Ina Rothschild

Interviewee: Ina Rothschild
Interviewer: Fred Stamm
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