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 Sally Abrams
Date:
10/13/1981
Interviewee: Sally Abrams
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Sally Abrams was born in Lodz, Poland in 1916. She describes the pre-war Jewish community in Lodz and the first antisemitic restrictions. She and her family participated when the local Kehilla helped Polish Jews expelled from Germany. In September 1939 the German Army occupied Lodz and the persecuti...
Oral History Interview with Gerald Adler
Date:
03/21/1985
Interviewee: Gerald Adler
Interviewer: Archive Staff
Interviewer: Archive Staff
Gerald Adler, born June 27, 1925 in Elmshorn, Germany, grew up in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. They moved to Berlin where he attended school until 1938. His father lost his job after Hitler came to power. Gerald talks about the effects of the Nuremberg laws on German Jews. During KrystallN...
Oral History Interview with Myer Adler
Date:
11/10/1982
Interviewee: Myer Adler
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Myer Adler, was born September 2, 1914 in Rudnik, Austria, which became part of Poland after World War I. He gives a vivid description of his pre-war life. From age 14 to 21 he attended several yeshivot in nearby small towns and developed his artistic talent along with religious studies. Gradually h...
Oral History Interview with Roy Allen
Date:
12/23/1987
Interviewee: Roy Allen
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Roy Allen was an American pilot with the 457th Bomb group, 8th Air Force. He was shot down over France and rescued by the French underground. They gave him a French identity and hid him in Jouy-le-Chatelle and in Paris. After a Belgian girl betrayed him, Roy was captured by the Gestapo on August 1, ...
Oral History Interview with Henry Altschuler
Date:
03/17/1981
Interviewee: Henry Altschuler
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Dr. Henry Altschuler was born March 28, 1923 in Jaroslaw, Poland. He was educated at both Cheder and public school where he experienced some anti-Semitism. He talks about Jewish life in pre-war Poland and resistance to local pogroms. He describes his flight to Rovno in the Ukraine with his father be...
Oral History Interview with Per Anger
Date:
10/21/1986
Interviewee: Per Anger
Interviewer: Martha Benoff
Interviewer: Martha Benoff
Per Anger, a Swedish diplomat, was assigned to the Swedish Legation in Budapest as Secretary for Trade in late 1942. He briefly refers to growing anti-Semitism in Hungary. He describes in detail the Legation’s response to Jewish pleas for help when Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944 as well as Ra...
Oral History Interview with D. S. Anonymous
Date:
02/22/1982
Interviewee: D. S. Anonymous
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
D. S., son of a Jewish banker and a Protestant mother, was born in Berlin in l928. He stayed in Berlin until l948. He discussed his family’s history, his education and how their life as Jews changed and became increasingly restricted after l935. Non-Jewish relatives broke off contact until after the...
Oral History Interview with L. I. Anonymous
Date:
11/04/1984
Interviewee: L. I. Anonymous
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
L.I. born November 1923, lived in Bucharest, Romania before, during and after World War II. She relates her family history, her experiences growing up in Bucharest and her education at Catholic, public, and Medical schools. She cites several instances of discrimination against herself and other Jewi...
Oral History Interview with Anonymous Liberator
Date:
11/10/1987
Interviewee: Anonymous Liberator
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Individual was a Captain in the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) of the United States Army during World War II. He entered Dachau Concentration Camp in April 1945, a few days after liberation, to interrogate Nazis who stayed behind because they wanted to be questioned by Americans not Russians. He w...
Oral History Interview with Chayale Ash-Fuhrman
Date:
09/21/1981
Interviewee: Chayale Ash-Fuhrman
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Chayale Ash-Fuhrman, nee Averbuch, was born in 1920 in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Romania. She describes life in Kishinev, her education in public school and private Jewish school. Her parents led a troupe of Yiddish actors which she joined until she turned professional at age 15. She gives a thorough an...