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 Julius Eingorn
Date:
01/02/1989
Interviewee: Julius Eingorn
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Dr. Julius Eingorn served with the 79th Infantry Division, U.S. 3rd Army in a special 12 unit dispensary that liberated Ohrdruf, April 1945. There were no survivors. He describes what he saw there, including evidence of primitive cremations, and prisoners marched out of Ohrdruf and killed just befor...
Oral History Interview with Malvina Gerlich Eisner
Date:
04/22/1985
Interviewee: Malvina Gerlich Eisner
Interviewer: Gladys Bernstein
Interviewer: Gladys Bernstein
Malvina Gerlich Eisner, born in Svidnika, Czechoslovakia, on August 24, 1924, describes her father, who was a grocer; being the second of nine children; the death of all of her siblings and her parents during the war; going to live with her grandparents when she was six years old to attend school in...
Oral History Interview with Susan Faulkner
Date:
10/19/1983
Interviewee: Susan Faulkner
Interviewer: self-taped memoir
Interviewer: self-taped memoir
Susan Faulkner (née Neulaender), born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, describes her father, who was a banker; being raised in an assimilated Jewish family; still having Jewish religious instruction in her public school during the first year under the Nazi regime; being favorably influenced by the ordain...
Oral History Interview with Marian Filar
Date:
09/05/1994
Interviewee: Marian Filar
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Marian Filar, born in 1917 in Warsaw, Poland, describes being a member of a musical and religious Jewish family; being a child prodigy and a noted concert pianist and teacher; his father, who was a manufacturer; his grandfather, who was a rabbi; studying at the Warsaw and Lemberg conservatories and ...
Oral History Interview with Herbert Finder
Date:
02/19/1987
Interviewee: Herbert Finder
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Herbert Finder, born in Vienna, Austria on April 22, 1929, describes his Polish father, who was an Austrian citizen, and his German mother; antisemitic acts he experienced in school; the Anschluss and his family’s flight to Breda, Belgium; attending a Jewish school in Antwerp, Belgium; receiving Ame...
Oral History Interview with Samuel Flor
Date:
03/03/1981
Interviewee: Samuel Flor
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Samuel Flor, born in Chernovitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), describes experiencing antisemitism, his education, and his career as a composer, musician, and a professor at the university in Chernovitz; life in Chernovitz first under Russian and then under German occupation; why it was impossible to leave ...
Oral History Interview with Karessa Foldvary
Date:
07/06/1989
Interviewee: Karessa Foldvary
Interviewer: Natalie Packel
Interviewer: Natalie Packel
Karessa Foldvary describes serving as a nurse in the US Army during World War II; working in field and evacuation hospitals (54th Field Hospital temporarily then 116th Evacuation Hospital) in France and Germany from November 1944 until spring 1945; how beginning May 2, 1945, she moved with the Ameri...
Oral History Interview with Betti Frank
Date:
03/03/1991
Interviewee: Betti Frank
Interviewer: Sylvia Brockmon
Interviewer: Sylvia Brockmon
Betti Frank, born February 20, 1924 into a merchant family in Zutphen, Holland, describes her life before the German invasion of Holland and the invasion itself on May 10, 1940; the Dutch expelling the German-Jewish refugees before the Nazis occupied the town; the Nazis rounding up Jewish men and se...
Oral History Interview with Helmut Frank
Date:
02/19/1982
Interviewee: Helmut Frank
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Helmut Frank, born April 15, 1912 in Wiesbaden, Germany, discusses his early interest in Judaism; his pre-war Jewish life including religious education, relations with Gentiles, and the sporadic antisemitism; his education at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, Germany from ...
Oral History Interview with Judy Freeman
Date:
04/21/1985
Interviewee: Judy Freeman
Interviewer: Selma Spielberger
Interviewer: Selma Spielberger
Judy Freeman, born on March 2, 1929 in Uzgorod in the Hungarian part of Czechoslovakia (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine), on March 2, 1929, describes her father, who was a baker; being educated in public school; the changes in Jewish life after the German occupation in August 1944; how Jews were herded into t...