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 Rita Harmelin
Date:
04/26/1992
Interviewee: Rita Harmelin
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Rita Harmelin (née Brauner), born June 17, 1925 in Bucharest, Romania, describes her Polish-born parents, who returned to Poland in 1931; the family moving to the oil town Boryslaw (now Boryslav, Ukraine); her secular and religious education and interactions with local Poles and Ukrainians; life und...
Oral History Interview with Milton Harrison
Date:
08/17/1987
Interviewee: Milton Harrison
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Interviewer: Nora Levin
Milton Harrison describes being a 19 year old First Sergeant in the Medical Detachment of the US Army’s 9th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 6th Armored Division; hearing in 1945 about German atrocities; how on April 11, 1945 on the way from Mühlhausen, Germany towards the Saale River his unit enco...
Oral History Interview with Malvina Herzfeld
Date:
12/23/1982
Interviewee: Malvina Herzfeld
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Interviewer: Marian Salkin
Malvina Herzfeld, born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1914, describes living in Tsobut, Danzig from 1924 to 1936; moving to Holland, where she married Martin Sternfeld, a German lawyer, in December 1937; the German invasion of Holland in May 1940; the establishment of Westerbork transit camp for German J...
Oral History Interview with Rachel Hochhauser
Date:
04/22/1985
Interviewee: Rachel Hochhauser
Interviewer: Lynn Hoffman
Interviewer: Lynn Hoffman
Rachel Hochhauser (née Sweden), born July 2, 1928 in Krzywice, Poland, describes being the only child of a religious family; her grandfather, who was rabbi and shochet of the Shtetl; her grandmother and parents, who operated a general store; her religious education and comfortable life before WWII; ...
Oral History Interview with Isadore Hollander
Date:
10/25/1982
Interviewee: Isadore Hollander
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Isadore Hollander, born 1920 in Paris, France, describes moving to Bendin (Bedzin), Poland with his Polish parents and older sister in 1923; the pre-war Jewish community; his father’s death and living from ages 11 to 15 in an orphanage, which operated according to Janusz Korczak guidelines; his moth...
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Kemény-Fuchs
Date:
05/15/1986
Interviewee: Elizabeth Kemény-Fuchs
Interviewer: Sara Callen
Interviewer: Sara Callen
Baroness Elizabeth Kemény-Fuchs, the Austrian-born young wife of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Gábor Kemény, describes being shocked by the October 1944 persecutions of Jews under the Arrow Cross government; being approached by Wallenberg and being ready to help him, mainly by persuading her husban...
Oral History Interview with Bertram Kornfeld
Date:
03/07/1994
Interviewee: Bertram Kornfeld
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Bertram Kornfeld, born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, describes his immigration to the United States in 1938; joining the US Army in February 1944; serving in the 423rd Battalion of the 106th Infantry Division; being captured by German soldiers in Belgium, near Malmedy with his crew during the Battle o...
Oral History Interview with Alex Krasheninnikow
Date:
12/18/1989
Interviewee: Alex Krasheninnikow
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Interviewer: Edith Millman
Alex Krasheninnikow, born in Kiev, USSR (now Kiev, Ukraine) in 1934, describes his father, who was a scientist, and his mother, who was an artist; how his parents were Jews but he had no religious education; having a happy childhood; living in a large collective apartment shared with four Soviet fam...
Oral History Interview with Fred Kulick
Date:
04/23/1990
Interviewee: Fred Kulick
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Interviewer: Philip G. Solomon
Fred Kulick describes serving with the 336th Engineer Combat Battalion (Amphibious), United States Ninth Army; being near Gardelegen, Germany, in the Saar Valley, when his unit found between 100 and 200 corpses of slave laborers who had been locked in a barn and burned to death; their commander, Lt....
Oral History Interview with Kurt Kupferberg
Date:
07/24/1981
Interviewee: Kurt Kupferberg
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Interviewer: Josey G. Fisher
Kurt Kupferberg, born in September 1907 in Berlin, Germany, describes his observant, middle-class family, who were originally from Galicia; how after World War I his family’s citizenship was changed to Polish; being part of the mass deportation to Zbaszyn, Poland in 1938; how a Nazi policeman had wa...