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 Tibor Baranski
Date:
10/02/1986
Interviewee: Tibor Baranski
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Tibor Baranski, born June 11, 1922 in Budapest, Hungary and honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, describes being educated in a Hungarian gymnasium; being aware of rising antisemitism by 1938; studying for the priesthood in Veszprem in 1940 and in Kassa (Kosice, Slovakia) in 1943; ...
Oral History Interview with Margaret Beer
Date:
01/01/1992
Interviewee: Margaret Beer
Interviewer: self-taped memoir
Interviewer: self-taped memoir
Margaret Beer (née Weiss), born in 1911 in Sziget, Hungary (Sighet, Romania), describes the German invasion of Hungary; S.S. troops being moved into many Jewish homes, including hers; how the troops with the help of Hungarian authorities identified prominent Jews who were forced to form a Jewish cou...
Oral History Interview with Philip Bonner
Date:
11/29/1990
Interviewee: Philip Bonner
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Philip Bonner describes being in the 159th Engineer Batallion, 3rd and 9th Army; participating in combat in Normandy, Brittany, the Battle of the Bulge, and Germany; the atrocities committed by Germans against French resistance fighters; arriving in Buchenwald on April 17, 1945 several hours after i...
Oral History Interview with Hans Braun
Date:
04/21/1985
Interviewee: Hans Braun
Interviewer: Hanna Silver
Interviewer: Hanna Silver
Hans Braun, born in Hannover, Germany in 1923, describes his family, who were German Sinti (Romanies); being part of a small carnival and traveling around Germany during the summer and living in Bernau in the winter; Nazi persecution beginning in 1939 and having to wear a patch with the letter “Z”; ...
Oral History Interview with Herbert Broh
Date:
10/15/1999
Interviewee: Herbert Broh
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Herbert Broh, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, relates several experiences of abusive antisemitism by his friends and his teacher as well as his impressions of Kristallnacht; his family leaving Germany for Shanghai, China in April of 1939 to join family members already living on Seward Road in the H...
Oral History Interview with Roger Bryan
Date:
07/09/1996
Interviewee: Roger Bryan
Interviewer: Natalie Packel
Interviewer: Natalie Packel
Roger Bryan (formerly Rudolf Britzmann), born in Berlin, Germany on June 14, 1921, describe his father, a physician and a decorated German army veteran, who was arrested on trumped-up charges in the mid 1930s; his father’s death in Moabit prison under suspicious circumstances; his school years, whic...
Oral History Interview with Lory Cahn
Date:
05/04/1981
Interviewee: Lory Cahn
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Lory Cahn, born May 17, 1925 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), describes growing up in a religious home; her father, who was a lawyer; her younger brother, who was sent to England in the 1930s and joined the British Army and remained in England permanently; how her schooling stopped after Krist...
Oral History Interview with Eva Cutler
Date:
07/27/1984
Interviewee: Eva Cutler
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Eva Frederich Cutler, born in 1925 in Budapest, Hungary, describes being the second child of a cultured, assimilated Jewish family; her family’s change from being unaware of existing Hungarian antisemitism and of Nazi persecutions of Jews elsewhere to experiencing government imposed restrictions; he...
Oral History Interview with Nino deProphetis
Date:
11/06/1987
Interviewee: Nino deProphetis
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Nino deProphetis describes serving with the US Army in Europe from November 1944 to December 1945; being the commanding officer of the 81st Armored Medical Battalion, part of the 11th Armored Division of General Patton’s Third Army; leading a contingent of 30 men to Mauthausen concentration camp aft...
Oral History Interview with Philip Di Giorgio
Date:
12/06/1994
Interviewee: Philip Di Giorgio
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Philip DiGiorgio describes serving in E Company, 232nd Regiment, 42nd Division of the Seventh Army during World War II; some of his combat experiences and the heavy losses his division took; entering Dachau in April, 1945 shortly after it was liberated, under orders to clear all the buildings and tu...